Unlike Maximum Rocknroll , Punk Planet doesn't come across as especially concerned with punk purity. Nothing collects some of its best interviews from the past half-decade. The title phrase comes from Fugazi, paragon of punk integrity, so it's fitting that the book opens with an interview with Fugazi's Ian MacKaye. That last interview in particular, as well as an equally political feature on the sanctions against Iraq, serves as a reminder that punk is not just music but a movement, and that any activity that falls outside of the mainstream can be construed as punk, purple hair or no.
Nothing offers an easy, compact way to catch up.
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