Punk

From Publishers Weekly:
The outrageous energy of the participants and their subsequent notoriety will carry the reader through this uncritical, discursive pop history of what Hager calls the "Global East Village." He begins with CBGB's and its development as the premier club for punk rock and the nihilistic youth culture of its audience. The author then covers various groupings that were to make Manhattan's East Village and neoexpressionism buzzwords of the '80s: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf and Keith Haring receive extensive coverage, as well as performance artists like Ann Magnuson and "personalities" such as Patti Astor. The book culminates with the explosion of galleries in the East Village and its impact on the New York art marketplace. Hager's treatment is unremarkable but, as always, the East Village provides its own momentum.

(July Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.)

The Black Label Bike Club is an international freak/mutant bicycle organization specializing in tall bikes and choppers.

Started in 1992 by Jacob Houle and Per Hanson as the "Hard Times Bike Club" in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the club has grown to include a chapter in New York, Reno, Austin and a Nomad Chapter loosely based out of New Orleans known as "Nowhere".

The Black Label Bike Club are one of the main contributors to the rise of the tall bike culture and are credited with being the first "outlaw bicycle club", as well as the originators of tall bike jousting.

Danny Fields is an American journalist and author. As a music-industry executive in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, he was one of the most influential figures in the underground and punk rock scenes.

J Church was an American punk rock band formed by guitarist and vocalist Lance Hahn and bassist Gardner Maxam in 1992 in San Francisco, after the demise of Hahn and Maxam's former band, Cringer. The group continued through numerous lineup changes and released a staggering number of vinyl records and CDs prior to Hahn's death in 2007.