Punkast

In this, the Season 1 Finale, Jessica talks to Matt Grimes about punk, scholarship, and Birmingham’s often-overlooked music scene. Matt is the General Secretary of the Punk Scholars Network and co-ordinates the PSN International affiliates. He is a member of the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (BCMCR) where his research interests include anarcho-punk and DIY punk s...

Torn Apart is the largest exhibition of punk and new wave graphics ever shown on the West Coast. The show includes around one-thousand pieces of graphic design ephemera produced from 1976 to 1986, mostly from England and the US, and includes posters, flyers, publications, clothing, stickers, and buttons. The work is pulled from Andrew Krivine’s Too Fast to Live collection, curated by CalArts graph...

On this episode, Jessica Schwartz talks with David Verbuč (PhD in ethnomusicology at the University of Califor­nia, Davis, 2014). Since 2014 he has worked as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague, where he teaches sociocul­tural anthropology, ethnomusicology, and popular music courses. He is an author of the book  DIY House Shows and Music Venu...

Let's Go to the Beach! Don't Be Afraid to Pogo! ... it's Axxel G. Reese of the Gears, DIs, and Star Party. Join Tequila Mockingbird and Jessica Schwartz in conversation with this punk surf-billy legend!  Songs, perforned by the Gears, in order of appearance:  "Let's Go to the Beach" "Don't Be Afraid to Pogo"  “Wasting Time" "Hard Rock" “Teenage Brain "FUF" “Psychotic Sweetheart "Dow...

Low Brow Art. Cats. Hot Rods. Painting. Music. Cat Museum. Anti-Capitalist Philosophies, DIY and Found Art. Tequila Mockingbird and Jessica Schwartz talk scrapping the system with Artist, Musician, Author-- Anthony Ausgang.  Songs, performed by Cat Museum, in order of appearance:  "Cat Museum Artillery" "When the Rain Hits"  “CIA 022820" "Cats in Space" Photos borrowed from the inte...

Machines. Punk rock. Psychology. Lyrical recitation. Opera. EHarmony. Mismatching. Abilities. Crip punk movement. Tequila Mockingbird and Jessica Schwartz interview Professor Galen Buckwalter of the band Siggy.  Songs, in order of appearance (citing personal correspondence with Galen Buckwalter):  Idiots Blocking Traffic “Love is War”  (‘the quintessential Idiots Blocking Traffic so...

In this episode, Jessica Schwartz and Tequila Mockingbird speak with drummer Martin Atkins from Pigface, Ministry, Killing Joke, Nine Inch Nails, and Public Image Limited—among others—in which he delves into his DIY philosophy surrounding punk creativity. Martin is also an author and educator, coordinating the music business program at Millikin University. His knowledge about, passion for, and ins...

In this episode, Jessica Schwartz and Tequila Mockingbird sit down with Randa Miliron who is the CEO and Co-founder of Interorbital Systems (IOS), a commercial sector rocket and orbital space launch corporation based at the Mojave Air and Space Port since 1996. She’s also an award-winning television writer/director/producer, she served as a Television News Director at AFN Berlin AND holds degrees...

In this episode, Tequila Mockingbird and Jessica Schwartz talk with Blondie drummer Clem Burke. They discuss the formative years of New York punk through his long-standing career as a rock drummer and rock n roll aficionado. They also delve into his more recent projects, such as the Empty Hearts.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Increasingly, people are recognizing the LA band, the Doors, for their wide-ranging influence on punk, notably inspiring Iggy Pop, Patty Smith, X, Joy Division, and Siouxsee and the Banshees. In this episode, we speak with the Doors’ venerable guitarist and song-writer, Robby Krieger, to learn about his musical journey, contemplate how the Doors shaped punk, and share some of his more recent work,...

Norwood Fisher is a bassist who is most known for his work with Fishbone, a genre breaking band and staple of the Los Angeles 1980s punk scene, who took inspiration from ska, punk, funk, soul and more. In this episode we talk about the LA punk scene, race and punk, and the intersection of creativity and community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pete Dale studied at Sunderland Polytechnic from 1989-1992. On graduating, he played in several indie punk bands and set up the cult DIY label/distributor Slampt, which ran very successfully between 1992-2001. Pete is a Senior Lecturer in Popular Music at Manchester Metropolitan University, associate editor of the Punk & Post-Punk Journal, and a founding member of the Punk Scholars Network. Ho...

Texacala Jones is a songwriter and front woman, known for her work in Tex & The Horseheads and being foundational in genre bending Cowpunk music. In this episode we talk about her songwriting process, ghosts, country, and punk rock. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Suzi Quatro boasts a long career of challenging societal conventions. A singer, bassist, songwriter, actor, mother, and much more, Quatro's influence in media influence and inspire many from Joan Jett, to Cathy Valentine, to the Punkast's guest producer, Tequila Mockingbird. In this episode, we talk about Suzi's career, her refusal to conform to gender, and the respect she has for herself, her mus...

The Erasers is an artsy, new wave, punk band that was formative in the New York punk scene in the 1970s. Today we talk about their formation, the meaning behind songs like "Funny/I Won't Give Up", and life in gritty 1970s New York City. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Laura Way is a research fellow at the University of Lincoln as well as a steering group member of the Punk Scholars Network. Her work in punk particularly concerns punk pedagogies, gender, and ageing. In this episode, we talk about ageing punk women, her work on Following Young Fathers Further, and the Punk Scholars Network. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gary Allen is a multidimensional artist and fixture in the 1980s Los Angeles punk scene. Entering into music during his career as a fashion model, Allen is predominantly known for his genre mixing self released EP In White America: This Hollow Valley Broken Jaw of Our Lost Kingdom , which used elements of disco, a new and powerful scene breaking out in LA. In this episode we talk about LA punk, fa...

Jula Bell is a bassist, vocalist, and activist who first gained recognition as a founding member of Bulimia Banquet, a band often cited as a forerunner in the Riot Grrrl movement who was featured in the 1995 music documentary Not Bad For A Girl. In this episode, we talk about the differences between feminism and egalitarianism, and music as a form of activism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

Edward Stapleton is a founding member in the experimental and boundary-crossing band, Nervous Gender, a group who is often cited as an inspiration for the Queercore movement. In this episode we talk about punk as an attitude, breaking rules, and having total artistic freedom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this bonus episode, Jessica Schwartz, Associate Professor of Musicology at UCLA, sits down with guest producer, Tequila Mockingbird, creator of the Punk Museum, to talk about the meaning of punk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gitane Demone (Christian Death and the Gitane Demone Quartet) and Rikk Agnew (Christian Death, Adolescents, and Radolescents) are both masters of creative experimentation in and out of punk. From touring the world in legendary punk bands, to writing poetry and operas, to using voice as an instrument, these two genre breaking collaborators give us an inside look into what it means to be an artist....

"The GoNightclubbing Archive is the definitive visual record of the New York punk scene from 1977-1981. It is an unparalleled collection of 82 bands videotaped during 112 performances, as well as 27 on-camera interviews, video art installations and thousands of photographs and pages of ephemera that chronicle the era. It is housed at New York University’s Fales Library/Downtown collection." (GoNig...

Jeremy Wallach is a professor of popular culture at Bowling Green State University.  He specializes in popular musics of Southeast Asia, having conducted fieldwork in Indonesia to discover how music and culture interact. In this episode, we talk about different punk scenes in Indonesia, the English language,  how "Western" punk ideals manifest and evolve  though Indonesian youth cul...

In our inaugural episode, Jessica Schwartz, Associate Professor of Musicology at UCLA, provides insight into what's to come in season one of Punkast. In this new series, Schwartz and guest producer Tequila Mockingbird, founder of the Punk Museum, interview punks, punk scholars, and academics to explore the meaning of punk, beyond the framework of genre, as an intergenerational cultural phenomenon....