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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| WKDU Supports: 40 Watts From Nowhere film screening | 7:30pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Monolord | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Profanatica / Cloak | 7:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
| Nelward / Grocer / Gloorp | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dwarves | 7:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
| CRUD FL / Coffindust / Gorgar | 7:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titus Andronicus | 6:00pm | Spruce Street Harbor | All Ages |
| Dopethrone / Ecstatic Vision | 7:30pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Jim E. Brown (full band show) | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| John Zorn's Flatlands | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Spike Hellis / Nuxx | 8:00pm | Ruba Club | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zeruel / ASkySoBlack / Mezmer | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Anna McClellan / Spring Onion / Ryan Donlin / 100 Watt Horse | 8:00pm | greenhaus | All Ages |
| Jim E. Brown (solo) | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Hook & The Light | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |