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Punkast

Jessica Schwartz, Associate Professor of Musicology sets out to find the meaning of punk through conversations with punks themselves: the musicians, videographers, and various cultural shakers who lived and created punk"s history, and also the academics who study it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:05:36

Stephen Hill w/ co-host Tequila Mockingbird

Punkast ·

2024/01/09

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 been actively performing and recording music since 2004. Its founder Stephen Hill has been involved in the PUNK ROCK

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53:32

Gitane Demone

Punkast ·

2023/12/21

Join co-hosts Jessica Schwartz and Tequila Mockingbird as they talk with singer/songwriterGitane Demoneof 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 with Rozz Williams, and collaborating with 'punk heroes' Rikk Agnew and Paul Roessler in the Gitane Demone

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1:10:02

Steven Kochones (dir. Artboud: Chinatown Punk Wars)...

Punkast ·

2023/11/17

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 challenge to other histories of LA punk and demand that we contend with the taken-for-granted framings

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12:08

An IDEA

Punkast ·

2023/11/06

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 program. So, in critical punk fashion, I want to interrogate the system in which I am implicated in order to

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1:26:41

Intergenerational Punk Conversation, feat. Tequila...

Punkast ·

2023/10/31

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 Songsmirrored fatality - “Utopia”Fuck U Pay Us - “Don't Touch My Hair”Tequila Mockingbird and The Blonde Moondust - “Disco Ranchero”mirrored fatality -

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1:08:06

Runchao Liu

Punkast ·

2023/10/11

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 derides, which opens possibilities for divesting from such violence with thoughtful representations,

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54:01

Mat Gleason (Coagula Art Journal)

Punkast ·

2023/08/11

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 world. He published the print edition from 1992 thru 2012. His Gallery, Coagula Curatorial was a leading

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58:40

Barry Seidel & the Hong Kong Café

Punkast ·

2023/07/18

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 clipsFear - Foreign PolicyThe Plugz - Electrify MeThe Germs - Richie Dagger’s CrimeThe Alley Cats - Nothing Means Nothing AnymoreThe Dead Kennedys - Live at Hong Kong Café Set 2KISS SoundcheckThis episode was hosted and produced by Jessica Schwartz. It was edited by Bella Gerard

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55:45

Sean Shimmer

Punkast ·

2023/03/22

Coming at you from the sunny mean streets of Hollywood in hot new technicolor visionLovers 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 and experimental spatio-temporalities where sonic reverberations seep through cracks in the Hollywood

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1:32:17

Evan Rapport

Punkast ·

2023/02/16

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 Asia. He is also an active saxophonist and composer.Links:Evan Rapport Faculty Page:

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1:17:30

Colectivo Archivo Contracultural Uruguay (the...

Punkast ·

2023/01/25

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 promotes meetings and exchanges between the community and archivists, in order to share experiences and

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1:28:09

Adobe Punk

Punkast ·

2023/01/15

“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 musical and historic landscape of L.A.” (About…Productions)In this episode, Jessica Schwartz talks with

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1:10:18

LAPL Zine Club

Punkast ·

2022/12/16

In this episode, Jessica Schwartz talks to Ziba Pérez (Young Adult Librarian, Los Angeles Public Library), Yago Cura (bilingual Adult Services Librarian for theLos 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 importance of non-commercial press, public access and accessibility, creativity, and intergenerational

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1:19:00

Josie Wreck

Punkast ·

2022/11/30

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 in the genderfucking 3-piece HEIDI WU, and with her dark, abrasive doom folk stylings as an acoustic artist

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Welcome to Season 2

Punkast ·

2022/11/23

more punk talk coming your way very soon... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:02:02

Matt Grimes

Punkast ·

2022/11/13

In this, the Season 1 Finale, Jessica talks to MattGrimes 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 scenes; ageing within popular music scenes; popular music, memory and nostalgia; DIY music cultures/subcultures and scenes;

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1:40:07

Torn Apart

Punkast ·

2022/08/22

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 graphic design faculty Michael Worthington, and is accompanied by a selection of vintage punk photographs by

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1:04:41

David Verbuč

Punkast ·

2022/04/27

On this episode, Jessica Schwartz talks with DavidVerbuč (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 bookDIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US: Ethnographic Explorations of Place and Community(Routledge, 2021), and the Editor-in-Chief of the

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1:01:10

Axxel G. Reese

Punkast ·

2022/04/13

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"Down in the Basement"Photo of Axxel by Becky CerecedesCheck out the film Don't Be Afraid to Pogo !!! Hosted on Acast. See

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1:07:44

Anthony Ausgang

Punkast ·

2022/03/27

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 internet.check out:Anthony Ausgang: https://ausgangart.com/Cat Museum: https://soundcloud.com/the-cat-museumExcerpted: Tequila TV

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