This book is a collection of essays about how punk rock and hardcore music saved lives. The essays are personal, variable, vulnerable and unapologetic. The bands covered include 7Seconds, Broadways, Butthole Surfers, Coheed & Cambria, Damned, Dead Milkmen, Dead Kennedys, Gorilla Biscuits, MC5, Minor Threat, Misfits, Ramones, Replacements, Rollins Band, Stooges, and Talking Heads. If that sort of thing interests you, then gabba gabba we accept you, we accept you, one of us.