The Years Punk Broke

"I had plenty of American punk albums made by groups who were before my time--so, X and Misfts, for example--but the game-changer for me was Bad Religion's No Control, which I bought the year after it was released. From then on, I was a contemporaneous fan of the band and, from that, other Epitaph groups such as NOFX and The Offspring. This was the first time that I listened to U.S. punk rock that was box-fresh. From there groups such as Green Day followed. That I've written a book about all this stuff more than 25 years later shows just how profound an effect it had on me. It was the music I'd been waiting for all my life to hear."

Brett Callwood at the LA Weekly interviews Ian Winwood, author of Smash!: Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and the '90s Punk Explosion.