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, Sep 16, 2026
Time Venue Age
Container / Gloorp / Echotracer 7:00pm Ortlieb's 21+
Eliana Glass / Thomas T. Feng (performing the music of Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru) 7:30pm First Presbyterian Church All Ages
Soda Blonde 8:00pm Johnny Brenda's 21+
Thursday, Sep 17, 2026
Time Venue Age
9Million / Deux Visages 6:00pm Spruce Street Harbor All Ages
Artist Talk with Dyani White Hawk 6:00pm PAFA Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts All Ages
Many Eyes / GORF / Monstertruck Firetruck 7:00pm Kung Fu Necktie 21+
Jazz in Hawthorne Park (Featuring Bassist Madison Rast) 7:00pm Hawthorne Park All Ages
ear / Slauson Malone 1 / HappyDranker 7:30pm First Unitarian Church: Basement All Ages
Stephen Dawes 8:00pm PhilaMOCA All Ages
Grouper / Bill Nace 8:00pm Penn Museum All Ages
Friday, Sep 18, 2026
Time Venue Age
Catbite / Chris Farren / Megg 6:00pm Spruce Street Harbor All Ages
Soul Exchange / Pure Bliss / Cycle of Abuse 7:00pm Ortlieb's 21+
Pansy Division / Teenage Halloween / Hotseat 8:00pm PhilaMOCA All Ages
Truck Violence / My Wife's An Angel / Sour Spirit 8:00pm Cousin Danny's All Ages
Nick Hakim / Arima Ederra 8:00pm First Unitarian Church: Basement All Ages
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