Welly Artcore
I first really became aware of music in 1979 via the top 40 on the radio and former jukebox 7”s they’d sell cheap in a local store. In autumn ’79 I became fully obsessed with…
Category: Punk Rock Origin Stories
Elise Thompson
“It caused complete mayhem, freaking out all of the nuns, and I felt like it was the greatest moment of my life.”…
Michael
Growing up in the Midwest, there was nothing in Junction City, Kansas resembling a punk scene in the early 1980’s. And I was brought up going to Sunday school and church in a strict home,…
M.J. Stevens
I do have to credit Punk Rock and that early LA Punk scene for showing me a way out of the tedious and stale suburban Christian life.…
Aaron Leatherbarrow
I was 14. I found a cassette tape called Pokinatcha by MXPX in a Christian book store in Cincinnati, OH. I found hope that day. I was constantly oppressed by religion, right wings, and suburbia.…
Craig White
I got called a poser by an older kid for wearing a Baja surf hoodie I got on vacation when I was in the 6th grade. I didn’t even know what poser meant, but it…
Mark Bishop
The first records I remember are Millie Small’s 1964 hit “My Boy Lollipop” and Paul Revere and the Raiders’ “Just Like Me” (from a collection called “The Best of ‘66”). They were castoffs from my…
Muslim Delgado
I was born in Upstate NY. I lived there until I was 14. Growing up I heard all kinds of music at a young age. From the music my mom and sisters dad and their…
Kitzee Ramona
I was a teenager in Huntington Beach California in the mid 1970’’s and so happy when I heard Rodney on The Roq for the first time! I didn’t like most of the music my friends…
Ziggy/Linda D
My Punk Rock story is not always a ‘pretty one’. It is a miracle I am alive. I was homeless on the street at 14, very out of my mind, traumatized, mentally ill, drugged up,…