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Punk & Post-Punk - Volume 12, Issue 3, 2023
Editorial by Russ Bestley
Sex, violence and a bit of a giggle: Notes on the novelty song by Hugh Hodges
Conspicuous co-optation: Exploring the subculture and pop culture connection at Gainesville’s Fest by Ellen Bernhard
‘Teddy boy, he’s got them all’: An interview with Ted Carroll about Rock On, Chiswick and Ace Records by Michael Connerty
‘Fuck Art, Let’s Dance’: An interview with Chris Morton by Russ Bestley
Jamie Reid, legendary artist, rebel and campaigner: 16 January 1947–8 August 2023 by Rebecca Binns
Provocative encounters: A few notes on Esat C. Basak by Hüseyin Serbes
Sinéad O’Connor: An appreciation by Michael Mary Murphy
Punk Art History: Artworks from the European No Future Generation, Marie Arleth Skov (2023) by Emily Owens
Beyond the Streets, Roger Gastman (ed.) (2023) by Peter Jones
I Want You Around: The Ramones and the Making of Rock ‘N’ Roll High School, Stephen B. Armstrong (2023) by Daniel Makagon
Silhouettes and Shadows: The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), Adam Steiner (2023) by Rupert Loydell
On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement, Kerry O’brien and William Robin (2023) by Rupert Loydell
Life’s a Gamble: Penetration, the Invisible Girls and Other Stories, Pauline Murray (2023) by Maritxu Alonso
Now That’s What I Call a History of the 1980s: Pop Culture and Politics in the Decade that Shaped Modern Britain, Lucy Robinson (2023) by Russ Bestley
Best B4 1984: Fanzine & Flyer Images from the Anarcho-Punk Underground, Chris Low (2023) by Russ Bestley
Hardcore Research: Punk, Practice, Politics, Konstantin Butz and Robert A. Winkler (eds) (2023) by Grace Healy
In Search of Tito’s Punks: On the Road in a Country That No Longer Exists, Barry Phillips (2023) by Marta Harasimowicz
The Punk Rock Museum, Las Vegas by Paul Fields
Rebellion Festival, Winter Gardens, Blackpool, UK, 3-6 August 2023, Authors: Niall McGuirk and Michael Mary Murphy

Rock Music Studies, Volume 10, Issue 2 (2023)
Article: Some Years are Just Better than Others. The Importance of Public Consensus in Record Ranking (William F. Carroll, Jr.)
Article: Significantly Othered: Limp Bizkit and the Politics of Nu Metal "Otherness" (Catherine Hoad)
Article: "The Sound of Silence": A Comparative Analysis of the Recordings by Simon and Garfunkel and Disturbed (Vernon Miller)
Article: The Deeply Vale Music Festival: The North West Free Music Festival, Its Demise, Its Influence, and Its Legacy (James Ingham)
Article: "Feminism, Punk Rock, and Subcultural Living": The Forming of Courtney Love and Hole (James How)
Digging: Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac, by Fleetwood Mac (Tom McCourt)
Audio review: Rocks and The Ballads of Clyde McPhatter (B. Lee Cooper)
Audio Review: I Love Paris: The Great American Songbook Goes R&B (B. Lee Cooper)

Rock Music Studies, Volume 10, Issue 3 (2023)
Article: "The Ultimate Revolution": Punk, Paint, and Pilar in Dreaming in Cuban (Steve Hamelman)
Article: The Blizzard of Oz: Nick Cave’s Wearisome Ubiquity (Dean Biron)
Article: Don’t Stop Believin’: Journey, Race, and the Making of a Rock Legend (David Hamilton Golland)
Article: The King as Proletarian: Thinking about Elvis Presley as a Worker (Martin Cloonan)
Obituary: Tom Verlaine, 1949-2023 (Steve Hamelman)
Obituary: Jeff Beck (1944-2023) (Garth Alper)
Book Review: Portraying Performer Image in Record Album Cover Art (John Littlejohn)
Book Review: What is Post-Punk? Genre and Identity in Avant-Garde Popular Music, 1977-1982 (Michael Marino)
Book Review: Happy Forever: My Musical Adventures with the Turtles, Frank Zappa, T. Rex, Flo & Eddie, and More (Thomas M. Kitts)
Audio Review: Here Comes Santa Claus: 29 Swinging Chestnuts (B. Lee Cooper)
Audio Review: The Gene Vincent Connection: 36 Roots and Covers of Gene Vincent (B. Lee Cooper)