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Punk Planet Magazine has won an Utne Reader 2000 Alternative Press Award!!

"Not just for fans of punk rock - this magazine is a fine source of articles about politics, current events, and do-it-yourself culture"
-- Utne Reader

The first compilation of the riveting and provocative interviews of Punk Planet magazine, founded in 1994 and charging unbowed into the new millenium. Never lapsing into hapless nostalgia, these conversations with figures as diverse as Jello Biafra, Kathleen Hanna, Henry Rollins, Sleater-Kinney, Excene, and many more provide a unique perspective into American punk rock and all that it has inspired (and confounded). Not limited to conversations with musicians, the book includes vital interviews with political organizers, punk entrepreneurs, designers, film-makers, writers, illustrators, and artists of many different media. Punk Planet has consistently explored the crossover of punk with activism, and reflects the currents of the underground while simultaneously challenging the bleak centerism of today's popular American culture.

Daniel Sinker began publishing and editing Punk Planet magazine at age 19. Punk Planet has been a driving force in both punk music and progressive politics since its inception in 1994. Other contributors to the book include Joel Schalit and David Grad, as well as many other interviewers who have been instrumentally involved in punk rock since the early 1980s. The Chicago-based magazine is distributed worldwide and has been covered by The Nation, Spin, Chicago Reader, New York Press, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Metropolis, Emigre and many other publications.

Critical praise for Punk Planet magazine:

"In principle, the idea doesnŐt seem that outrageous: Why not create a magazine about music and politics that doesnŐt have its hands tied behind its back from the start, freed from the shallowness and trend mandates of official media, the insularity and disciplinary bifurcations of academia, and the ideological blinkers that held back Maximum Rock n Roll? So try thinking of anyone but Punk Planet whoŐs pulled it off."
--Eric Weisbard, Village Voice

"[Punk Planet] is obviously based on the theory that there is nothing revolutionary about being illiterate. By pushing the parameters of punk journalism beyond the usual reports from the suburban teenage wasteland, the Planet has become one of the subculture's essential reads."
--Guitar World

"One of the most vital, interesting and important magazines currently around. I can't recommend it more highly."
--San Francisco Bay Guardian