"Hardcore Architecture" (which we also posted on back in May) is now available as a limited-edition booklet, featuring 68 Google Street View snapshots of homes that housed punk and hardcore bands in 1980s. Besides their shared genre-base, these homes all have one thing in common: they are pretty boring. Or to be more charitable, perfect examples of "American vernacular architecture in the 1980s".

In this MinnPost piece, Chicago-based artist and creator of "Hardcore Architecture" Marc Fischer spills some details behind the homes. Here's some select bits from his interview:

"...there are definitely sorts of trends in the building styles. If you’re looking at a gigantic, long brick building in Syracuse, New York, in all likelihood it’s student housing for Syracuse University if it’s not a house. And certainly the homes in Chicago that I found all look pretty normal variations on Chicago types of homes – like brick two-flat buildings. Or in New York, of course, it’s predictably either really tight row homes, or giant high-rise buildings."

"The thing that’s been consistent is that people seem really happy and quite amused to find themselves included. When I look for addresses, it’s whatever I can find. I don’t exclude anyone because no one’s heard of their band, or because they only made a demo tape."

"Certainly there are a few homes that are boarded up, and obviously, wouldn’t have been, one would think, when people were living there. One of those is in Michigan, which we can make all kinds of assumptions based on how Michigan has been for the last couple decades. And other things, where the landscape is extraordinary, and looks extremely extravagant, and it’s hard to know what it looked 25 years ago. It’s purely speculative."

For updates and more photos, check out Fischer's Tumblr.