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Vans Warped tour is in its final year after 23 years. Crowds aren't what they used to be.
I don't think I've yet to experience anything as incredible as the DIY punk scene in my teenage years. People from multiple communities around Chicago would show up at an abandoned transmission gallery and renovate enough of it to make it inhabitable for a show that night. The dedication was purely out of love for the scene itself and it's a shame I haven't found a parallel in modern adulthood.
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Spent my college years and early 20's in Seattle helping throw parties at a variety of underground/DIY-ish venues (including ETG, two other loft spaces down Pike/Pine from ETG, and The Monkey Loft back when it was literally Brian's loft with his bedroom in it before he remodeled it and turned it into a licensed space). There's definitely a stark difference in vibe compared to larger and/or legal venues, and even a no…
I'm going to somewhat tangent this to pick your brain: Transplant to seattle from Baltimore, back east I knew all the good venues, DIY and otherwise, and had enough connections to friends working radio stations/djing gigs to stay in the loop. Out here I'm utterly clueless, even to something as simple as the basement EDM scene. Any tips, if that doesn't violate some unspoken dogma? :P (hip hop, electro, doom/grunge, p…
Cool story and interesting read, makes me want to go fucking rock out instead of being a code bro shelled up inside all day. been about 3 months since last big rock show, much too long.
I think the point is that punk is accessible and relateable for a lot of people. The punk people I've known were the most open-minded of any crowd, whether that was built around music or something else. I think it's true that it still unites people who otherwise would probably not mix. They are also the most open to different styles of music.
And as for connecting people across space and time, I can't help but think of The Fall's "Telephone Thing" every time I remember the douchebags at Google have all my data as I type HN comments. How dare you assume I want to parlez-vous with you.
Reading this with no clue what punk is. The article doesn't do a good job of explaining it or answering the question the title poses to someone not already part of it.
Surely someone has put together an introductory listening list that is searchable. No idea if there's a scene anywhere these days. I rather doubt it, but you never know.
I don't think I've yet to experience anything as incredible as the DIY punk scene in my teenage years. People from multiple communities around Chicago would show up at an abandoned transmission gallery and renovate enough of it to make it inhabitable for a show that night. The dedication was purely out of love for the scene itself and it's a shame I haven't found a parallel in modern adulthood.
Ok, I'm old and got into punk in the late 70s. Never lived in a place with a really big active scene until Seattle in the late 80s / early 90s, but honestly that wasn't punk per se, it was something different. More rock than punk, I would say. Feel free to disagree. The Bellingham Bash in 1990 or 91 had a good vibe, though, and I saw Nirvana at Squid Row for a dollar before they got famous. I think the point is that…
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> I grew up in a huge hardcore scene on the east coast. Boston? That scene was insane in the late 90s.
Albany area. Tons of good of hardcore bands came out of that scene.
Was Albany hardcore big on the sxe/vegan thing at that time?