Martin Douglas dives into Rock for Light by Bad Brains. It's a story of how Black punks from one Washington (D.C.) influenced punk in the other Washington (state).
Link to article mentioned in the final segment: https://afropunk.com/2019/02/bhm-the-agony-and-ecstasy-of-a-queer-bad-brains-fan/
Hosts: Dusty Henry and Martin Douglas
Audio producers: Martin Douglas and Roddy Nikpour
Podcast manager: Isabel Khalili
Editorial director: Larry Mizell Jr.
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Bonus: Hiro Yamamoto on Soundgarden, Forging New Paths, and the Circles of Power
Roundtable: Breaking Punk
Black Flag – My War (1984)
The Shaggs – Philosophy of the World (1969)
Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (1977)
Shonen Knife – Burning Farm (1985 via K Records)
Bonus: Introducing KEXP's In Our Headphones
Bonus: Introducing KEXP's A Deeper Listen
Roundtable: Women in Punk
30 Years After Kurt's Death
Anything by Kleenex (1978-1983)
The Raincoats – The Raincoats (1979)
The Slits – Cut (1979)
PJ Harvey – Dry (1992)
Roundtable: The "Radical" Politics of Kurt Cobain
Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)
MDC – Millions of Dead Cops (1981)
The Clash – Combat Rock (1982)
Roundtable: What Do The Stooges, Pixies, and The Vaselines Have in Common?
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