In Search of Tito's Punks: On the Road in a Country that No Longer Exists

A look at the vibrant punk scene that exploded in Yugoslavia during Marshal Josip Broz Tito’s final years.

In 1981, Demob, a young multiracial punk rock band from a stagnating provincial English city, recorded “No Room For You,” a song that sold a few thousand copies before fading into history. The bass player was eighteen-year-old Barry Phillips, and in 2011, he received a Facebook message letting him know that the song was famous throughout the Balkans and had been covered by notable Yugo...