Tearing Down the Orange Curtain by Nate Jackson (ePub) (Nonfiction)
Authors: Nate Jackson & Daniel Kohn
First Published: May 20, 2025
Category/Genre: Nonfiction, Music History, Punk, Pop Culture
Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World is a definitive, meticulously researched account of the Orange County (OC) punk and ska explosion from 1978 to 2000. Journalists Nate Jackson and Daniel Kohn draw on exclusive interviews with musicians, managers, and scene-makers to reveal how a suburban “wasteland” just outside Los Angeles became a global epicenter for punk, ska, and alternative music