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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ishmael Ali, Will Greene, Lily Finnegan Trio / Will McGoran, Sam Xiao Cody duo / Crowmeat Bob, Ian McColm duo | 7:30pm | The Perch | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wax Jaw / Teenage Halloween / Nysa | 6:00pm | Spruce Street Harbor | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flowerbomb / Caring Less / Mars Counsel / Hyber | 7:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Circle Jerks (Band performing live) & Repo Man (Film) | 7:00pm | Keswick Theatre | All Ages |
| WKDU Supports: Repo Man Film Screening + Circle Jerks Live Performance | 7:00pm | Keswick Theatre | All Ages |
| Value Select | 7:30pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Born At Midnite | 9:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sruti Sarathy & Sumesh Narayanan | 4:00pm | Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement | All Ages |
| Dolly Ave | 7:00pm | Philly Style Pizza | All Ages |
| Hot Seat / Violent Highs / Summerset Brides / Rat Sauce | 7:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Charmspeak / Secret Address / Mary's Laser Beam / Cowboy Death | 8:00pm | greenhaus | All Ages |
| Zillas On Acid / DPSD / Qualls | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otis Kane | 8:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Pontiac / Noshows | 7:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Colman's Dungeon Crawl | 6:00pm | Spruce Street Harbor | All Ages |