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Baxie’s Musical Podcast: Shawn Stern from The Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival in Las Vegas
Baxie talks to Shawn Stern–lead singer for the band Youth Brigade about the upcoming Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival in Las Vegas! We talk about the history of punk, the festival, and about live music! Very interesting stuff! Also available on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Stitcher, Spotify, and on the Bax & O’Brien website!
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Punks at the Georgetown Roy Rogers fast-food restaurant in Washington, D.C., 1985. (Photo by Bettmann / Getty Images)
There are some people those of a certain age and a certain disposition, mostly middle class and white, often male who will always remember just where they were when they heard the news. I was working as a bike messenger in San Francisco that spring day in 1994, and I can still recall locking up outside City Hall, getting ready to make a court filing, when the boss came on the two-way radio and blurted it out. “It’s all over,” he said, delivering the grim news with an air of barely restrained, mordant self-satisfaction. “Kurt Cobain killed himself, put a shotgun in his mouth.”