Ian Winwood is one of the world's foremost music writers. He has written for Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Mojo, Kerrang!, and the BBC, and is the coauthor, alongside Paul Brannigan, of Birth School Metallica Death and Into the Black. Winwood resides in London.
Smash! gives us first-hand accounts of how '90s skate punk
came to be. And while some of the story is public knowledge,
there's a ton of juicy stuff in there that we had no clue
about.--Kerrang!
Smash! is a compelling narrative of what led up to the punk
breakout...It gives unparalleled access to the key artists, letting
their voices shine through...This is important not just for fans of
those particular groups but also for anyone trying to understand
how punk rock became viable as a mainstream, commercial genre of
music.--Oy Oy Oy Gevalt!
[A] straightforward account of the improbably profitable second
coming of punk rock...[Winwood] writes with authoritative
enthusiasm about the 1990s rise of bands like Green Day and the
Offspring and their broader relationship to the always-contentious
question, 'what is punk?'...His knowing humor will appeal to
younger fans and those who were there. A savvy reminiscence of the
era when punk finally paid its debt to society.--Kirkus Reviews
A phenomenal piece of work.---LA Weekly
An energetic history of the punk revolution of the 1990s, inspired
by bands such as the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, and X...[Winwood has
a] deep knowledge and thick dossier of interviews with these
three-chord revolutionaries...This is a ripping fun music history
and strongly reasoned argument for the place of oft-derided 1990s
Cali punk in the annals of pop music.
--Publishers Weekly
If you have any interest in how punk came to be the beast that it
is today, you should seek out Smash!. The '90s punk
explosion is a remarkable, if often overlooked, part of musical
history. Finally, it has the book its story deserves.--Kerrang!
The amount of research and fact checking that the author
undertook...is staggering. And it doesn't hurt that Winwood is a
bloody great writer whose natural wit and sharp, incisive style
turns what could have, at times, become a dry and slightly
repetitive read into a compulsive, interesting and intriguing page
turner... The nineties was, as Dickens once said, the best of times
and the worst of times, but it will always be the era when punk
rock conquered the world and in doing so made things a little
better and Ian Winwood perfectly captures the history of, and
everything that made that moment in time special, with
Smash!.--Mass Movement
Through a series of interviews, Winwood documents the 1990s, the
decade in which punk rock emerged from basements in California to
the Billboard charts...The author thoughtfully maps the
transformation of the punk rock ethos for both the record labels
and the bands as they experienced an unprecedented wave of
commercial success...Fans of punk and music in general will enjoy
this work.
--Library Journal
Winwood gives us a side of punk rock that's not often
discussed...It's not a complete history of the punk era. Rather
it's a history of those who made the biggest impact...A loving
homage to a forgotten era of punk...It's not only a story about the
bands, but it's also a story about how punk rock rose from the
ashes to conquer once again.--Genre Is Dead
Winwood goes into depth about all things punk, getting commentary
straight from many of the musicians that helped punk go mainstream.
Winwood did such a great job with this book.--The Hype
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