Punk.com, founded in the Spring of 2010, is the brainchild of the fashion minded folks at Newbury Comics. Newbury Comics is a Boston based indie music and pop culture store, founded in 1978. In early 1980 Newbury Comics began importing punk and new wave records from the U.K.,and started Boston Rock Magazine and Modern Method Records. We released the seminal "This is Boston Not L.A." punk compilation album, which captured the intensity of that era. The original store sold everything from Doc Marten's boots, to studded leather goods and Boy of London clothing. Newbury Comics now has 28 stores, and operates the independent clothing store Hootennany located in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Ma. We believe you should 'Wear What You Want!'.

About Newbury Comics:

Newbury Comics was founded in 1978, a year after the pinnacle of PUNK and DISCO.   It was the last time we were a step behind. 

Two under-challenged MIT students opened a store-front on a crappy part of Newbury Street in Boston with a comic book collection and a desire to shake things up and hang out with the cool kids.  They still like doing both and still work just as hard.

If Newbury Comics ever was ‘about them’, it quickly became ‘about us’ and also therefore, ‘about you’.  We identify as punk-as a spirit not a music style or uniform, but as a way of life.  Newbury Comics is a place for ideas and creativity, for ‘fuck yeah!’ and as well as a little “WTF?”; a paragon of cool and intellect, counterbalanced with a whole hell of a lot of stupid.  We are the place where people come to see and come to be.  No monolithic IDEA, but endless IDEAS.  Art and farts all rolled into one mega-mash up of pop culture and life.  There’s precious little we hold sacred except your right to question the culture and have an idea too.

Back in 1989 when I was a freshman at Boston University, before the internet, when you had to drag your carcass into an actual store to shop, I was told of  ‘the coolest record store ever’. Only months away from my un-ironic mullet, a wide-eyed gay kid from Tennessee, I walked into my first Newbury Comics and knew I’d found where to spend all of my free time.  After four years of irritating the staff with my constant presence, I wised up and dropped grad school for the coolest job ever-surrounded by every freak show and fabulous leader of culture and vice in Boston.  I was standing in Newbury Comics when Kurt Cobain died.  I was standing in Newbury Comics when Michael Jackson died.  There is no place I’d have rather been to hear such heart-breaking news for at least I was no longer alone. 

You aren’t now either. And not just cuz we want you to spend your money with us, but because we want you to party with us, to argue with us, to challenge us and let us show you the latest coolest most awesomest thing we’ve ever seen YET.  You are us and we wouldn’t have it any other way.  Get it?  You don’t have to, who cares.  Just hang out with us for awhile. We’ve got things to discover and talk about.

-Robbie, Newbury Comics Store Manager.