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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Benefit For Carolyn featuring Mannequin Pussy / Dark Thoughts / KulfiGirls / Commitment / Cult Objects | 6:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Dana and Alden | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Sanctuary | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guerilla Toss / Ben Katzman's DeGreaser / Grocer | 7:00pm | Ruba Club | 21+ |
| Dev Lemons | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Jerry / Crickets and Cicadas | 7:00pm | Ruba Club | 21+ |
| Tunaween 2026: Friend / Disaster Artist / Nysa / Sound of Jeb / Precious Little Life | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Arun Ramamurthy Trio / Rudresh Mahanthappa Hero Trio | 7:30pm | Zellerbach Theatre | All Ages |
| Johnnie Jupiter and the Controversy | 8:00pm | Love City Manayunk | 21+ |
| Built to Spill (night #1) | 8:00pm | Ardmore Music Hall | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| WKDU Presents: Blacklisted and Ink & Dagger in the Creese Student Center on Halloween | 8:00pm | Drexel University Main Building | All Ages |
| Swarnendu Mandal (sarod player) | 8:00pm | Asian Arts Initiative | All Ages |
| Built to Spill (night #2) | 8:00pm | Ardmore Music Hall | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marshall Allen’s Ghost Horizons | 7:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| heavens to betsy | 7:30pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AJJ / Greet Death | 7:30pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |