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

Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Time Venue Age
Corpus Offal / Mephitic Corpse 7:00pm Kung Fu Necktie 21+
Squid 8:00pm Underground Arts 21+
Cash Langdon / Hemlock / Ava Mirzadegan 8:00pm The Khyber 21+
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Time Venue Age
Eighth House / Lying Season / Kenny 3 The Return / Lurch 7:00pm Nikki Lopez 21+
Andrew Duhon / Gabe Parsons 8:00pm The Lounge at World Cafe Live All Ages
Shilpa Ray 8:00pm PhilaMOCA All Ages
Onilu (Chad Taylor – percussion, Kevin Diehl – percussion, Joe Chambers(!) – percussion) 8:00pm Solar Myth 21+
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Time Venue Age
Rivers of Nihil / Holy Fawn / Inter Arma / Glacial Tomb 6:00pm Underground Arts 21+
Halo Bite / Bite the Hand / Nysa / Human Error 7:00pm Foto Club All Ages
Peacetime Consumers / Sparrow Steeple / Nada Finger 7:00pm Ortlieb's 21+
Lauren Calve / Rachel Ana Dobken 8:00pm The Lounge at World Cafe Live All Ages
Suroor x Dicqbeats / Comprador / Hot Seat 8:00pm PhilaMOCA All Ages
Lucius / Victoria Canal 8:00pm Union Transfer All Ages
Friday, May 23, 2025
Time Venue Age
Gamblers / Public Access / Penny Dog 7:00pm Kung Fu Necktie 21+
Wes Hoffman and Friends / TwentyTwo / Headways / Spirit Weak 7:00pm Ortlieb's 21+
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