Great book about the evolution of American punk rock & underground weirdo music by one of my favorite artists of the genre/scene. This book is mostly an attempt to suggest a framework to understand the various ideas, features, and institutions of underground punk music of the 80s-early 2000s. McPheeters treats his own biography in the hardcore scene as kind of a case history, without getting in to too much detail about the stuff he did with Born Against & Men's Recovery Project. He depicts himself as more of a member of a scene or cultural movement than a member of a band. Mutations is does not provide a lot of gossip; you could probably get a lot of that from looking at zines or old Maximum RocknRoll issues from the era. I listened to the audio version, read by the author himself, so I couldn't easily flip back to parts that I thought of a question about in the middle of the night after I read them, and so some of my thoughts about this book are little underdeveloped. Maybe I need to learn how to listen to audiobooks, but I'm thinking I should pick the print version up for flipping through when I eat my dinner. Can't decide if this is the sort of book I should have read back when I was dipping my toe into weirdo underground's degenerate provincial offspring, or if it would have been as incomprehensible as any number of other 2020 artifacts.