Cultural Writing. Music. For twelve years, Punk Planet Magazine has released bimonthly cultural criticism from its home in Chicago. From the singular moment that allowed Green Day to market punk culture to mainstream society, to the banal experience of trying to get a job at the post office, and from the magazine's infiltration of the Promise Keepers in the mid-1990s, to its regular reporting from Iraq, Weapons & Motives collects the most stunning writing from Punk Planet's last seventy issues and showcases the stories from the underground that continue to influence our culture at large. More than simply a musical style, the punk ethos continues to evolve as the last bastion of independent culture in an ever-incorporating world. Punk Planet's dedication to and watchdogging of DIY culture, the fields of marketing and advertising, youth activism, media consolidation, and the pure joy of making art and music with friends are collected for the first time into one volume. Come read the most pressing, vital tales from and about independent culture, originally publishedin the periodical hailed by the Washington Post as "The New Yorker of punk magazines."