WKDU Presents: UPSIDE DOWN PUNKS: THE STRANGE BUT TRUE STORY OF THAT FUGAZI BASKETBALL HOOP SHOW
Saturday, April 12, 2025 - 8:00pm
Venue:
PhilaMOCA
Age:
All Ages 
A night celebrating punk history, DIY spirit, and the music that keeps it alive.
In the summer of 1988, Fugazi played a sweaty, chaotic, sparsely attended show in a rundown Philadelphia gym. The sound was terrible. The power went out. And yet, somehow, it became legendary.
Upside Down Punks: The Strange but True Story of That Fugazi Basketball Hoop Show (Microcosm Publishing) is an oral history of that gig—told by those who were there, compiled by J. Hunter Bennett, with a foreword by Mickey Lynch, the teenager who made it happen.
To celebrate the zine’s release, we’re throwing a proper DIY show in its honor featuring:
Des Demonas
Dot Dash
Applied Knowledge
Philly Haps
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flyingfish / Love Letter / Knifeplay / Day Aches | 7:00pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| moondoggy | 8:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Kresten Osgood w/ Bobby Zankel, Marshall Allen, Dave Burrell | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Grrrl Gang | 8:00pm | Silk City | 21+ |
| Niloufar Shiri & Bahar Badietabar / Parsa Ferdowsi | 8:00pm | The Rotunda | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Hollenbeck & George | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Zen Selekta | 8:30pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sapremia / Bone Weapon / Purulency / Spellhammer | 7:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
| Brendan Lane & the Sugar Packets / Sleephouse / Lito & The Shepherds | 7:30pm | Silk City | 21+ |
| The Russels / Be Nothing / Beloved Binge | 8:00pm | Cousin Danny's | 21+ |
| Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick / Jeff Zeigler | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Sanctuary | All Ages |
| Utsav Lal Rajna Swaminathan Alec Goldfarb Trio | 8:00pm | Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement | All Ages |
| Caiola | 9:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ray Vans / ALTARBOY / Sh'Bang / Nothing Wrong | 7:30pm | Silk City | 21+ |
| The FU's / YDI / The Brood | 8:00pm | Cousin Danny's | 21+ |