| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: Let's Get Rid of New York | |
| Prologue: The Boy Looked at Jimbo | |
| "The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man": Rodney's English Disco and the Glitter Rock Deca-Dance (1971-75) | |
| Trouble at the Riot House: L. A. Glitter's Downward Spiral (1974-75) | |
| Back Door Man and the New Order (1974-75) | |
| "Young Americans" (1975-76) | |
| Queens of Noise: The Rise of the Runaways (1975-76) | |
| Radio Free Hollywood (1976-77) | |
| Forming: The Screameers, the Weirdos, the Zeros, and the Germs Kick-Start the Scene (1976-77) | |
| So This Is War, Eh? Slash Magazine, Flipside, Lobotomy, and the L.A. Punk Zines (1977) | |
| "Punish or Be Damned": The Rise of the Screamers (1977) | |
| Getting Devo-ed (1977) | |
| "Landlord, Landlord, Landlord, Clean Up the Mess": The Birth of X (1977) | |
| Pass the Dust, I Think I'm Bowie: A Few Words About Black Randy (1977-78) | |
| Welcome to Liverpool '77: Punksploitation, the Indie Boom and the Incredible Singing Dickies (1977) | |
| The Masque and the Plunger Pit (1977) | |
| "I'm Darby Crash": In and Out of Control (1977-78) | |
| Talkin' 'Bout the Hillside Strangler (1978) | |
| Misfits and Cheerleaders: The Go-Go's Go Punk (1978) | |
| "Ever Get the Feeling You've Been Cheated?": The Sex Pistols in California (1978) | |
| Trashin' and Bashin' (1978) | |
| The Canterbury Tales (1978-79) | |
| Mutations: Power Pop, New Wave, Art Punk, Psychobilly, and the Seeds of Hardcore Split the Scene (1979) | |
| Rockabilly Cats at Disgraceland (1979) | |
| "I Totally Hate Cops to the Max" (1979) | |
| This Is Hardcore (1979) | |
| Strung Out (1979) | |
| GI (Germs Incognito) (1979) | |
| Population One: The Fall of the Screamers (1979) | |
| Vicious Circles and Face Plants: Orange County Ultraviolence and the Skate Punk Boom (1979-80) | |
| "We Got the Beat": The Go-Go's Hit the U.K. and Return as Pop Stars (1980) | |
| Los Angeles (1980) | |
| "Preaching the Blues": The Roots Revival (1980) | |
| The Vex: Los Lobos and the East L. A. Scene (1980) | |
| Fire of Love (1980) | |
| "Amoeba": The Adolescents, Social Distortion, Agent Orange - Fullerton's Pop Hardcore (1980) | |
| The Decline of Western Civilization (1980) | |
| "I Want Out Now" (1980) | |
| "This Town Is Our Town": X Sells Out the Greek, the Go-Go's Hit Number One, and MTV (1981) | |
| Epilogue: No Apologies (1981-2001) | |
| Source Notes | |
| Cast of Characters | |
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