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“I really thought I’d build a simple archive and hoped that a few of the old crowd would turn up to participate, but within a year, we’d located most everyone involved,” says Matthew Rothenberg, co-founder of the Che Underground blog archive. Subtitled
The Secret History of San Diego’s ’80s Music Scene, the website collects stories, images, music, video footage, and visitor comments focused on local groups such as Hair Theatre, Noise 292, the Tell-Tale Hearts, Morlocks, Unknowns, Crawdaddys, the Zeros, Mystery Machine, Town Criers, Nashville Ramblers, Everybody Violet, 5051, Glory, the Penetrators, the Trebels, and the original local Wallflowers. “The epicenter is an eclectic group of bands that emerged from San Diego punk and collaborated intensely, including putting on some pioneering rock ‘n’ roll shows at UCSD’s Che Café.”