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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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRISM Saxophone Quartet (w/ Special Guests Leyla McCalla, Rez Abbasi, and Steven Mackey) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| American Aquarium / Justin Wells | 8:00pm | The Lounge at World Cafe Live | All Ages |
| Lights / KiNG MALA | 8:00pm | Music Hall at World Cafe Live | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Churchman / Flanafi / Cold Court | 6:00pm | Spruce Street Harbor | All Ages |
| Lily Seabird / Mary St.Mary / Shannen Moser | 7:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Sloptart / Total Whine / Septic Bath | 7:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
| ZG Smith | 8:30pm | The Lounge at World Cafe Live | All Ages |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nympho (tape release show) / Positronix / Cult Objects | 7:00pm | Nikki Lopez | 21+ |
| Haunt Me / Stare Away / Twin Princess | 7:00pm | Silk City | 21+ |
| J Roddy Walston / Patton Magee | 7:15pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Courting / Slow Ficition / Friend / Monstera | 7:30pm | Foto Club | All Ages |
| Ghostlike / Creek / Farewell Days / Skeever | 7:30pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Hot Mulligan | 8:00pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| The Dissidents / Vitriolic Response / Kartel / Noogy / Nightfall | 8:00pm | Cousin Danny's | All Ages |
| Allison Durham / Frank Hurricane / Emospacebird / Googolplexia | 8:00pm | Upstairs at Abyssinia | 21+ |