Here’s another podcast from Green 960 progressive radio, with host and award-winning journalist Peter Laufer, who was going to have us on for an hour, but it was the very next morning after our Gilman show, and we had the wrong address and were waiting in front of a building two blocks away, wondering why nobody was answering the buzzer,

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This was one of our more hilarious interviews, on San Francisco’s ultimate punk radio station, KUSF-FM. DJ Jet showed up hung over enough to be legally drunk, clutching an empty Mason jar. She still has no idea what it was doing in her bed! With music from Dead Kennedys, Neurosis, and more. Click the third hour to hear it all.
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Jello Biafra remembers being barely 21 and running for mayor of San Francisco against Dianne Feinstein, whom he calls “a mean, hateful witch who didn’t even bother to hide her contempt for the disadvantaged.” Billie Joe Armstrong remembers former fans wearing “Kill Green Day” T-shirts after his band signed with a major label: “There was almost a socialist aspect to ...more

Listen to this podcast from KALW-FM in San Francisco, which includes members of Crime.
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Listen to this bizarre hour-long podcast of a live broadcast from KQED’s Forum program,  with special guests Hank Rank from Crime, Jon Ginoli from Pansy Divison, Jello Biafra’s ex-wife, and some guy who saw Billy Idol perform to an audience of 12 people, among other callers. Bonus: host Scott Shafer insisted that the Knack were punk!
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Listen to a half-hour interview with music, from the legendary KALX-FM on UC Berkeley campus.
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“The stories by Richard the Roadie are so foul you can smell them through the book…There are quarrels never laid to rest and jokes that never get old (mostly of the drunken variety). Here, punk is smart, irreverent, idiotic, playful, earnest, political, selfish, violent, and always reinventing itself — which, of course, stands right in line with the region’s fascinating ...more

Listen to this uncensored one-hour interview podcast with longtime Bay Area radio host Peter B. Collins: “We talk about the Sex Pistols, Ramones, Clash, Mutants, Flipper, DK’s, early Green Day and many many more plus an odd cameo from jazz sax giant Stan Getz.”
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There’s a punk music store in Southern California whose theme is “Where it’s 1982 every day.” Therein lies a central irony of this rebellious music: At this late date, to love the music is to be steeped in nostalgia. In fact, 1982 is a bit late for a peak punk era; the Clash was basically kaput by then, and there’s ...more

“Gimme Something Better” has it all: dead dogs, statutory rape, skinhead fights, the origins of the term “emo,” promoters accidentally taking acid in jail, M-80s, soup lines, people falling through skylights, people getting torched with flamethrowers, teenagers on meth squatting in empty beer vats, exhumed bodies, laundromats, Ford Pintos, murderers and millionaires…There are also some parts about bands.“
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