In this comprehensive look at the music and culture behind the hardcore legacy, Steven Blush blends his own first-hand experience of the scene with interviews, photographs and complete discographies. The Second Edition of the definitive work on one of rock's most important eras (Juxtapoz), has over 100 new pieces of artwork, hundreds of new band bios and a radically expanded discography. The first edition, which became the Sony Classics released documentary of the same name, was 328 pages; the new edition clocks in at 408 pages. According to the Los Angeles Times, American Hardcore is the definitive treatment of hardcore punk, changing the way we look at punk rock. And according to Paper magazine, American Hardcore sets the record straight about the last great American subculture.