...for reasons of political sentiment (it certainly was a skillful meshing of punk sensibility and political satire) but also for the dreams of glory it evoke ...uote>While attending a gathering at Target [Video, which produced tapes of punk shows aired on a local cable station as well as hosting numerous parties wi

...WWII Demise | Seals' Stadium]]. For a brief time it was home to a thriving punk rock scene and known as [[M.D.C. AND THE VATS|"The Vats."]]'''

...“site-specific” events into galleries, circuses, bars, homes, drag shows, punk shows, storefronts, advertisements, music shows, trolley cars, popular & un [[category:Dance]] [[category:Punk]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:Anarchism]] [[category:Mission]] [[category

.... Some individuals were placed under arrest and a defense fund was formed. Punk bands like the Offs and the Blowdriers played benefits. Later a photo of th

...city itself a central and necessary agent in differentiating San Francisco punk from that of other parts of the country.''' ...ng political certainties. But the story also begins with my revulsion from punk, which was part of the fascination; a numbness, disgust or feeling of conte

...d personality -- thankfully. The 16th street/Valencia axis was the hub of "punk" activity and the hyperactive Jello Biafra could be seen hustling around , ...ne been able to score it, there is no way they would or could have had the punk energy and nave belief in the intrinsic value of the music it needed to go

...railroad flats house minority families and collectives of young people and punk musicians.

...ry:2000s]] [[category:Dissent]] [[category:The Political Edge]] [[category:punk]]

In the mid seventies, Punk Rock hit S.F., and messengering allowed people with mohawks to earn a livin

...n the police account of what happened and blanketly labelled the crowd as “punk rockers.” These conspiracy charges, which carried a stiff $2,500 bail, we ..., the police, press, and politicians labelled the arrestees as “a bunch of punk rockers,” in an attempt to marginalize those who dared to show that the e

...nfully obvious that the blockade had attracted very few "people of color," punk/New Wave elements or working class suburban types. The projected style of t

...tracted bohemians, beatniks, motorcycle enthusiasts, artists, hippies, and punk rockers who filed into the cubbyhole rooms of this building from the 1950s After appearing in the film Sid and Nancy a pudgy, brunette, wannabe punk-rock star named Courtney Love spent time here with a boyfriend who later ro

''Originally published in [http://www.boomcalifornia.com/2015/09/when-punk-mattered-at-the-birth-of-the-neoliberal-city/ "Boom: The Journal of Califor <blockquote>''Punk rock, hip-hop, reggae/dub and world music burst forth simultaneously and ma

...the peasants on horseback) were showing revolutionary films in some of the punk rock clubs, underground galleries and on alleyway walls! We saw that projec '''42 minutes of sound from a live punk concert in the Gartland Pit, Sept. 26, 1987, featuring Tom Jennings and Shr

...of both spandex and beer—it seems to me that do-gooder cyclists and drunk punk bikers and messengers were like the peaceable kingdom (that painting where

...s Carlsson, [[When Punk Mattered: At the Dawn of the Neoliberal City|“When Punk Mattered: At the Dawn of the Neoliberal City”]]</blockquote> .... Radical politics were percolating in many forms and places alongside the punk music scene. Copying machines were newly accessible at work, at school, and

...SF State grad students of Painting, miscellaneous artists, songwriters and punk rockers.

...extravaganzas involving theater, film, dance and music and straight-ahead punk rock shows. The organizers were a loose grouping of individuals from numero [[category:Music]] [[category:punk]] [[category:Mission]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:1990s]]

...ng their checks when they tagged it, way back when? Were they the first SF punk rockers on welfare? Or was the welfare office even AT 8th and Mission when

...alism and the dissident cultural movement whose most public expression was punk and new wave music. ...es more or less intact and rage intensified, found themselves drawn to the punk/new wave milieu. Incoherent and often crude as it was, it looked like the o