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Fresh Produce Media and Audible have launched the Punk in Translation: Latinx Origins podcast. The project “tells the stories of Latinx artists and Latin music’s overlooked role in the origins and evolution of punk,” according to a press release. Additionally, Punk in Translation: Latinx Origins is Audible’s first production to be published in both English […]

The riot grrrl underground feminist punk movement began in the early ’90s in the Pacific Northwest before expanding to the rest of the world. Credited by some for kick-starting third-wave feminism, riot grrrl was a scene where women could express themselves through music.  Many bands were influenced and started because of riot grrrl, with the […]

You would think television (the medium, as opposed to Television, the band) and punk rock were a match made in heaven. After all, the music and culture are sharp, edgy and visually arresting. This should have made punk flawless televisual fodder, right? Truthfully, punk and TV collisions have more often resulted in mutual incomprehension and […]

Punk was, by design, meant to be small and regional. True, bands might break out and become national or even international. But the overarching idea was keeping things small and accessible. You wanted to be able to reach out and touch your favorite band in a small sweaty club, maybe have a beer with the […]

[Photo Credit: Greg Velasquez] Alice Bag is many things—singer, songwriter, punk icon, feminist, Chicana, activist, published writer—and none of them are boring. Hailing from East L.A., Bag (aka the artist formerly known as Alice Armendariz) made her name on the rock scene fronting the Bags, a coed punk staple who threw down effortlessly (and quite […]