[Alternate titles: New York Rocker Pix; NY Rocker; NYRocker.] Altogether 58 fascicules (includes the rare May 1979 "New York Rocker Pix" supplement, numbered separately as vol. 1, no. 1) comprising a complete run of the seminal New York punk and pop music tabloid, with articles, band interviews and reviews of live shows and recordings written by Alan Betrock (founder), Andy Schwartz (editor), Tad Among, Ken Barnes, Blondie, Victor Bockris, Jim Jarmusch, Amos Poe, Lance Loud, Anna Sui, Lester Bangs, Miriam Lina, and other scene stalwarts, covering artists including Patti Smith, The New York Dolls, The Ramones, The Talking Heads, Television, Iggy Pop, Blondie, Television, Richard Hell, Mink DeVille, The Dictators, Suicide, and others, with later issues tracking the global diaspora of punk and new wave music in the UK, Europe and elsewhere, as well as information on other scenes in the United States, including Los Angeles, Boston, and Minneapolis (where Schwartz began his rock journalism career as an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota), illustrated throughout with reproductions of photographs by Roberta Bayley, Lee Childers, Bob Gruen, Duncan Hannah and others. Sizes vary, ranging from 4to to small folio (nos. 1-24 and the "pix" supplement 29 x 43 cm; nos. 25-55 29 x 38.5 cm; nos. 56-57 20.5 x 27.5 cm) Illus. self wrpps. Some scattered tears, overall very good. New York (New York Rocker) 1976-1984. Together with three original mailing envelopes, one from November 1978 printed with the New York Rocker logo.

Offering unparalleled journalistic coverage of the emergence of punk rock in NYC, New York Rocker was written by and for the movement's original clique in Manhattan's downtown arts and performance community. As the popularity of punk and new wave music grew, so did the publication's editorial scope and distribution. NY Rocker, as it was called in later issues, published continuously on a monthly or bi-monthly schedule until it went on hiatus in 1982, returning briefly for two reformatted and poorly distributed issues in 1984, after which it folded entirely. As of May 2026, WorldCat locates a number of partial holdings but only a few complete runs in North America.

Book ID: 53698

Price: $11,500.00