Local Unrest

The real-life story of a most unusual, colorful, and dynamic underground music scene almost completely unknown to the outside world. On paperback and eBook.

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@Local_Unrest recently acquired a highly valued review in Razorcake by prominent counterculture writer and Giant Robot co-founder and editor Martin Wong, who spent many summers in Hawaii befriending several local scenesters who appear in the book. Read on ... much mahalo!

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In ensuing years, Trail of Dead earned critical praise and a major label deal that produced 2001’s Source Tags and Codes, which has been described as “one of indie rock’s truly epic albums.”

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In Chapter 15, Jason Reece (pictured) of acclaimed post-hardcore art rockers …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead reveals moving to Oahu in the 1980s, falling in with the local punk scene, and meeting Trail of Dead co-founder Conrad Keely at Kalaheo High School.

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The first-ever Local Unrest book party at Mad Platter Records and Wonderland Books was a smashing success!

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How cool to learn Local Unrest has received some much appreciated ink from Honolulu Magazine!

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Hawaii punk book Local Unrest featured on Hawaii Public Radio https://t.co/mp66zZcsbd via @YouTube

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If you missed it, Hawaii Public Radio has posted an outstanding audio feature on @local_unrest as conducted by ace interviewer Kevin Allen (pictured). Just go to https://t.co/M8ACTj2UMQ and search for 'punk". Scroll down and you'll find it quick!

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From Honolulu, HI to Memphis, TN to Oakland, CA to Las Vegas, NV, everyone's picking up a copy of Local Unrest. We're taking the Hawaii scene worldwide!

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In Chapter 2, you'll find a photo by rock photographer Richard Upper of Japanese rock band Gedo at Diamond Head Crater in the early '70s. But the video -- this jam is balls-out, full-throttle proto-punk!!!

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After one week, we're still hanging tough in several of Amazon's punk books categories, rubbing elbows with the likes of NOFX, Bad Religion, Nick Cave and Blink-182. All thanks to you!

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Read all about the origins of Hawaii's punk, post-punk, and underground rock scenes. Now available on Amazon.