'Tearing Down the Orange Curtain' Leaves a Pile of Rubble to Sift Through » PopMatters

'Tearing Down the Orange Curtain' Leaves a Pile of Rubble to Sift Through » PopMatters

SoCal punk music history book Tearing Down the Orange Curtain has gobs of literary equivalents to falling off the stage.

DS Book Club: “Tearing Down The Orange Curtain: Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World” by Nate Jackson and Daniel Kohn

I’ve lived in or close to Orange County, CA most of my life, not counting my Kerouac summer. I was introduced to punk rock in junior high when a kid passed me a tape with a few songs off a compilation called, Old School Punk (side note: I would later find out the songs were selected by Warren Fitzgerald of the Vandals). While the tape had songs from bands like X and the Suicidal Tendencies, what stuck out to me were the bands I would later find …