Punk Stories
KCET Departures has been calling for punk rock stories to whom we would be able to award three lucky winners a signed copy of "The Beautiful and the Damned", a compilation of punk rock photos produced by Ann Summa. We...
The first time I tasted freedom and hope as a child in need of hope due to poverty and abuse came through the cable video music station (No, this wasn't MTV--it didn't exist then, I don't think) at 5 AM....
by Dino Everett I grew up in New Hampshire and got into punk at an early age by idolizing some of the older kids in the neighborhood who played in bands. One of them Kevin, eventually became GG Allin but...
by Suzanna Regos My #1 Story: Dancing in a go-go cage for Elvis Costello. He played a week-long gig at the Beverly Theatre where he spun a wheel and played whatever song it landed on; the wheel determined his set...
One summer night in the early 80s Ivan, Tony and I got into a little unwanted trouble. We were bored so we decided to do a small political action. In our neighborhood there was some Nazi graffiti along the train...
In the spring of 1979 I was just out of high school and looking to break into singing with bands. I wound up in the punk rock scene by happenstance when the drummer of a band called F Word named...
Henry on being punk, knocking into trash cans and remembering his van...
Tell us your punk rock / new wave story for a chance to win one of three signed editions of "The Beautiful and the Damned: Punk Photographs by Ann Summa". One lucky punk will also win an original print of Pat and Alice Bag shot in 1978 by Summa.
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