Green Day came to fame as the most commercially successful punk band involved with the fruitful underground East Bay scene that grew out of Berkeley all-ages venue 924 Gilman Street. Much like the earlier rise of their Bay Area thrash-metal counterparts in Metallica, the b...
Based on archival research on zines, or small circulation independently produced magazines, I illustrate how the 1980s San Francisco Bay Area punk rock scene was a vibrant cultural community. I demonstrate how what was once an underground scene also became a commercialized one, with bands like ...
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FILM REVIEW: ‘Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk’ FROM VARIETY.COM: “Corbett Redford offers a dynamic, three-hour chronicle of the Berkeley punk scene that birthed Green Day and other pop-punk bands. By now rivaling Bloomsbury and the Beats as the Most Exhaustively Chronicled ...
Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk: Directed by Corbett Redford. With Iggy Pop, Miranda July, Billie Joe Armstrong, Tim Armstrong. A documentary spanning over 30 years of the California Bay Area's punk music history with a central focus on the em
Rising French punk quartet Les Lullies make an anticipated return to the Bay Area this week, playing three shows in San Jose, Santa Cruz and Oakland. Les Lullies - Don't look twice (2017) on SLOVENLY!byT.Boy StoogelingonYouTube
Breakaway started in Ohio in 2013 and has since expanded to Kansas City, Michigan and North Carolina. As a newcomer to the region, with event organizer Prime Social partnering with local concert juggernaut Another Planet, it adds to the growing local EDM festival scene. ...
The Bay Area also has an active youth theater scene. ACT and the Berkeley Repertory both run classes and camps for young actors, as do the Peninsula Youth Theater and Willow Glen Children's Theatre in the Peninsula and South Bay, Bay Area Children's Theater and Danville Children's Musical ...
scene including the one of a kind Debbie Abono who served as both manager and mother figure to the motley group of monsters. With its direct, no nonsense approach that gives off a cool, somewhat amateurish vibe, "Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story" ...
A documentary film that chronicles the emergence and rise of the thrash metal music scene in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1980s. Directed by Adam Dubin, the film features interviews with some of the biggest names in the genre, including Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, and ...