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“So, what does it mean to speak about punk pedagogy?” asks Prof. George Grinnell on his Punk Pedagogy website. Check out this episode (and, of course, the website linked below), to hear Prof. Grinnell share his educational provocations -- with insights on punk and settler colonialism, punk memoirs, and, crucially, critical approaches to open-ended DIY, in academia.  Bio: Dr. George C. Grinnel...

Lots of new PUNKAST content is coming soon! In the meantime... It’s here… the Punk Scholars Podcast!  Co-hosts and producers, Jessica Schwartz (UCLA) and Paul Hollins (Bolton), set out to explore the seemingly paradoxical role of punk (and punks) in the academy and break with oft-generalized dismissals by highlighting the pivotal contributions and necessary interventions made by punk scholars...

Join Jessica Schwartz in conversation with Pleasant Gehman and Theresa Kereakes , as they discuss their pivotal roles in the early LA punk scene and the importance of recognizing the LGBTQIA+ foundations of punk subculture and communicating such significance across generations. Known for their influential first-wave punk zine, Lobotomy , they have found continued success in a variety of endeavors...

Join Jessica Schwartz in conversation with Gary Leonard , acclaimed photographer of LA punk history and LA history more broadly as they discuss everything from being there to capture the nascent scene....and becoming part of LA punk history in the process...to having your work front and center in the Las Vegas Punk Rock Museum (among other notable locales and media).  Artist Bio: Gary Leonard...

Join co-hosts Jessica Schwartz and Tequila Mockingbird as they talk with Stephen Hill of Atomik Kangaroo about his longstanding involvement with punk, indigeneity, inclusivity, and his conceptual, performance-based practices around speaking your mind and improvisation.   Artist Bio: BIO: AtomiK:kangaroo “What is Atomik:kangaroo?” “Atomik:kangaroo found on recordings is finally here.” Has...

Join co-hosts Jessica Schwartz and Tequila Mockingbird as they talk with singer/songwriter Gitane Demone of the seminal deathrock band, Christian Death, to explore her wide-ranging repertoire and many issues, such as poverty, (international) touring, pregnancy, and motherhood in a deathrock band; jazz, minimalism, electronic music, experimental music, solo work, "inventing" Cabaret Noir...

In this episode, Jessica Schwartz and co-host Dr. Runchao Liu (S2 E9) speak with Steven Kochones, the director of KCET's Artbound: Chinatown Punk Wars about his critical choices in portraying a crucial, yet relatively short, period of time in LA's punk history (and punk history more broadly). He also offers insight into sound design, musical placement, and editorial decisions that make the film a...

Welcome to the first episode of a Punkast mini-series:  "Free and Appropriate Education?: DIY Punks' Take on Disabilities Education Legislation."  This past Monday, October 30th, 2023 marks the 33rd anniversary of the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act." Coincidentally, UCLA's Disability studies major was just announced, making it the first of UC and Cal states to offer such a...

In this special episode, Jessica Schwartz along with guest co-hosts, UCLA Librarians + Archivists Kelly Besser and Courtney Dean sit down to facilitate an intergenerational conversation among predominantly local (LA-based) punks–Tequila Mockingbird, FUPU (Fuck U Pay Us; Jasmine, Tianna, Urhuru), and mirrored fatality (mango + samar).  Featured Songs  mirrored fatality - “Utopia” Fuck U P...

In this episode, Jessica Schwartz talks with Dr. Runchao Liu about the LA Chinatown Punk Scene, sensationalist media interventions, and the often blurry line between appreciation and appropriation. We also discuss questions about her work on "badness" with respect to punks and Asians, countering the problematic stereotype of the model minority, and how punk has been part of the violence it often d...

In this episode, Jessica Schwartz and Tequila Mockingbird talk with Mat Gleason of Coagula Art Journal and Al's Bar about 'punk literacy,' critical 'evisceration,' astrology, and managing one of the best-known punk spaces of early LA punk. Here's his bio:  Mat Gleason is best known for founding and publishing Coagula Art Journal, a critical slam of the pretensions and personalities of the art...

In this episode, Jessica Schwartz talks with Barry Seidel of the Hong Kong Café about how his life and career in music led to his pivotal role in the LA punk scene and, of course, the Chinatown Punk Wars.  Songs & sound clips  Fear - Foreign Policy The Plugz - Electrify Me The Germs - Richie Dagger’s Crime The Alley Cats - Nothing Means Nothing Anymore The Dead Kennedys - Live at Hon...

Coming at you from the sunny mean streets of Hollywood in hot new technicolor vision  Lovers of dreams, loud guitars, mountains, that silver moth dust, cracked sidewalks, motel ritual magick, we are everyone, everything, you, us.... In this episode, Jessica Schwartz and Tequila Mockingbird speak with Sean Paul Lampon, aka Sean Shimmer, of the band, Shimmer Bed, to explore musical creativity a...

In this episode, Jessica Schwartz speaks with Evan Rapport, an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at The New School. He is the author of Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk (University Press of Mississippi, 2020) and Greeted with Smiles: Bukharian Jewish Music and Musicians in New York (Oxford University Press, 2014), about the musical life of Jewish immigrants from Central Asi...

In this episode, Jessica Schwartz speaks with the founders of Colectivo Archivo Contracultural Uruguay (the Countercultural Archive of Uruguay, CAC): Allie da Silva Srulowitz and Eugenio Amen. CAC is a collective focused on the recovery, preservation, digitization and access to the different materials that emerged from the Uruguayan underground countercultural scene of the 1970s to 2000s. CAC prom...

“Punk music finds life in one of L.A.’s oldest adobe homes in this original theaterwork. Set in the early 1980s in working-class Bell Gardens, three young punk musicians, from disparate cultures, squat in a vacant house. Inspired by the bands X, the Minutemen, and the Bags, the trio builds its punk songbook and a life-size zine, as they define their artistic identity and find their place in the mu...

In this episode, Jessica Schwartz talks to Ziba Pérez (Young Adult Librarian, Los Angeles Public Library), Yago Cura (bilingual Adult Services Librarian for the Los Angeles Public Library, and owner of the small press HINCHAS), and Lorena Villegas (Young Adult Librarian, Los Angeles Public Library) about the Los Angeles Public Library's Zine Collections and Zine Club. We talk about the import...

Uncompromising, gender-queer, acoustic & experimental solo artist/ collaborative musician in Orange County, CA.  Josie Wreck is a 1st generation transgender Xicanx musician, vocalist, speaker, community organizer, DJ, and hostess of Aural Displeasure. She carved a space out for herself in the mid 00's Orange County punk, goth & art scenes by shrieking and abusing her distorted guitar...

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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...