Punkhouse Oakland, the Podcast

Jake Filth answers follow up questions. Jake Filth was born in Oakland, California in 1970; in the month of February.   Jake Filth moved out of his family home in 1988 or 1989 to a house on MLK JR. Blvd in Oakland with friends Jessie and Lennie. This supreme punk house was The Ashtray (see: Ashtray by Screeching Weasel). They lived there about a year and then moved on. He has lived in many houses...

Jake Filth was born in Oakland, California in 1970; in the month of February. He spent his first fours years living at the University Village in Albany, CA, and a house near the North Berkeley Public Library, on The Alameda. Jake, along with his two older brothers, Mark and Greg, and older sister Nina, moved to El Sobrante, Ca, in 1975. They all lived there with their parents, Vivian and Tom. Jak...

Candy (AKA Candy Stubborn, AKA Chuckles the Clown) is a punk, artist, musician, photographer, gardener, bartender, and animal lover. She grew up in an intolerant small town in Idaho, where as a kid she discovered punk through her older sister Sonia, local college radio show Mutant Pop, and her first time seeing ShaNaNa on TV.  The first punk show Candy went to, high on cough syrup, was Youth of To...

I'm Steve List. My resume is a mix of everything from delivering furniture for my dad’s shop and pipe fitting at a Richmond refinery to computer system administration and even some strategic dumpster diving in Silicon Valley. My obsession with the local music scene hit in my 30s. While running an Atari computer store, I met a young Mike Montano and his friends, who introduced me to the raw ene...

Nickie grew up in San Francisco and spent most of her teen years in the East Bay in the 90s. She's a mom to a rad 19 year old, a nurse, harm reductionist, and community based researcher. Shes been living in Portland for the last several years and is so stoked to be moving back to Oakland in April to be closer to her chosen family and the community that shaped her.

Hi My name is Nicki Popovic I am 58 years old and have lived in the Bay area for most of my life. I’ve lived in the east Bay since 1988. I lived in the house on the street of 57 & Genoa. Now the house Is a Dom house called the Gates. I lived in many Punk House holds I Hold dearly to my Heart. I would never ask different of my life style all the Spiritual Knowledge & wisdom I have learned f...

Chiyo Nukaga played drums in Noothgrush and had a weekly radio show on 89.7fm KFJC called The Dark Side with Leia Organa when she moved into The Compound. She started to do art modeling at the Academy of Art in SF in February, 1998. She enjoyed her time at the Compound a lot but later got an apartment in Berkeley in 1999 on Ashby Ave with George Rice who was in High on Fire at the time. They had s...

Ben Sizemore moved from Little Rock to Oakland in 1989 with his band, Econochrist, and other friends. This pack of new arrivals established Little Arkansas, an infamous punk house that was around for many years. Ben also lived at 3240 Adeline Street in South Berkeley, a grimy multi-apartment punk compound that featured a revolving cast of characters, including members of Neurosis, Rancid, Dead and...

Ravi Durbeej was born in Georgetown, Guyana, grew up in Queens, NYC, and went to high school in Ft. Lauderdale before moving to Berkeley, CA the summer of 1995. The first record he bought was the 'Heart of Glass' single by Blondie in first grade and after buying the 'Let's Go Crazy' single by Prince in fourth grade, he proudly told his parents he was going to play Rock and Roll...

Janelle Blarg (also known as Janelle Hessig) is a Bay Area writer, cartoonist, and multimedia humorist. In 1990, while other bad kids were making secret bongs in her high school Crafts class, she made her first publication, Tales of Blarg , which became a definitive and influential East Bay punk fanzine. Her writing and mostly-autobiographical comics can be found in numerous periodicals and comics...

Anna Brown, Berkeley Punk from way back, has lived in many punk houses including Fairview and The Grimple House. She recently edited a book of Murray Bowles’ photography called Hail Murry .

Zeb was born on a hippy commune in the mountains of Colorado and grew up all over the country. He started playing in punk bands his senior year. His first real band was Cirrhosis in Minneapolis in 1993 where he moved after high school. Within about a year he went traveling and met Mikey Matusio and the two formed Black Maggot in Oakland in 1994. The Maggot House was their house on Harper Street in...