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Katy, a quiet French Canadian teenager, reluctantly leaves Montréal to spend time with her estranged father, an aging Los Angeles punk rock legend. Dad's an aging L.A. punk rocker known as the Rat. Daughter's a buttoned-up neat freak who'd rather be anywhere else. Can this summer be saved? Now that she's exiled from Canada to sunny Los Angeles, Katy figures she'll bury her nose in a book and ignore the fact that she's spending two weeks with her...

High school senior Leo Caraway, a conservative Republican, learns that his biological father is a punk rock legend.

While pundits bemoan the death of the music industry and decry teenagers for their morals, earnest, heartfelt bands like Dashboard Confessional, Jimmy Eat World, and Thursday are quietly selling hundreds of thousands of albums through dedication, relentless touring and respect for their fans. This relationship--between young people and the empathetic music that sets them off down a road of self-discovery and self-definition--is emo, a much-maligned,...

Sebastian Prendergast lives in a geodesic dome with his eccentric grandmother, who homeschools him in the teachings of futurist philosopher R. Buckminster Fuller. But when his grandmother has a stroke, Sebastian is forced to leave the dome and make his own way in town.

Examines the history of punk rock.

John Constantine, a magician of the highest caliber, accepts an apprenticeship in the United States to become the lead singer of his best friend's punk band, but when a complicated spell gets out of hand, the disastrous consequences might be more than Constantine can handle.

Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.

This ten episode documentary covers rock 'n' roll history from its humble beginnings in the '50s to Lollapalooza in the '90s. A kaleidoscope of musical memories, it features interviews with stars from Little Richard to Bono, as they recall the sound and songs that changed their lives. There are vintage clips examining: early stars during rock's first golden age, the turmoil of the British Invasion, the incandescent birth of soul, the death of the...

Paints a revealing portrait of the pioneering rock musician, detailing his innovative influence on the world of rock music and his turbulent personal life, including his rise to fame and his battles with drug addiction and mental illness.

It is the sequel to the cult hit SLC Punk. The story kicks in 20 years after Heroin Bob's death, when his son Ross hooks up with two young punks and embarks on an out-of-control odyssey through the Utah Hinterlands.