Desert Punk runs into a rarity in the Kanto Desert: Stryker, an actual honest guy who does things out of the goodness of his heart! Not a good thing in a place where it's every man for himself ...

Under the first full moon of 1985, the psychedelic punk band Meat Puppets shredded in the depths of the Mojave Desert, powered by a generator and surrounded by incandescent cactuses. Some 500 pink ...

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"The High Desert" book cover The novel is now a 2023 recipient of the American Library Association's Alex Award and the Cartoonist Studio Prize. Spooner also published a Black punk anthology in ...

Once the lineup for the “Mojave Exodus” was set, he had a logistical puzzle at hand: How do you get a hundred-plus LA punk rockers out to the desert? On April 24, 1983, a fleet of school buses ...

His self-awakening was spurred by finding the punks of the High Desert. Skaters and "unhappy young rebels caught up in the punk groundswell sweeping the country" became Spooner's adopted family ...