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

Wednesday, Jul 22, 2026
Time Venue Age
Eleni Mandell 7:00pm 48 Record Bar 21+
Max Subar / Mallory Hawk / Thank You Thank You 7:00pm Ortlieb's 21+
Kuru / katmoji / ali.rq 7:30pm Ukie Club All Ages
PAVEMENTS (2024) Film Screening 7:30pm PhilaMOCA All Ages
First Day Back / gapyear 8:00pm First Unitarian Church: Basement All Ages
Coltrane 100: Legacy (Ravi Coltrane / The Philadelphia Orchestra) 8:00pm TD Pavilion at the Mann All Ages
Fat, Evil Children 8:00pm Johnny Brenda's 21+
Thursday, Jul 23, 2026
Time Venue Age
Wild Pink 6:00pm Spruce Street Harbor All Ages
Frances Forever 7:00pm Nikki Lopez 21+
Cosmic Music: The Life, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane 7:00pm Solar Myth 21+
Chris Acker / Creekbed Carter Hogan 8:00pm Silk City 21+
Slippers / Chancers / The Woulds 8:00pm Philly Typewriter All Ages
Man Man 8:30pm Underground Arts 21+
Friday, Jul 24, 2026
Time Venue Age
Spirit of the Beehive 6:00pm Spruce Street Harbor All Ages
Dikembe / Common Sage / Banquets 7:00pm Philly Style Pizza All Ages
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