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, Apr 2, 2025
Time Venue Age
Racoma 7:00pm Kung Fu Necktie 21+
Abby Kenna / Public Works 7:30pm Foto Club All Ages
Still House Plants 8:00pm Solar Myth 21+
Thursday, Apr 3, 2025
Time Venue Age
No Knock / The Tarrys / Vile Enemy / Lottery 8:00pm Nikki Lopez 21+
Eiko Ishibashi / Hour 8:00pm Johnny Brenda's 21+
Friday, Apr 4, 2025
Time Venue Age
The Hostile City Weekender II (Night #1) Feat. Down By Law / The Stitches (LA) / Chain Whip (Vancouver) / Doc Rotten (New Jersey) / Moose Knuckle (Boston) / The warlovers (Syracuse, NY) / Total Whine (South Philly) / Disoviet (Delco) 5:00pm Upper Darby American Legion Post 214 All Ages
Jay Schwartz - I Belonged to the Blank Generation - Silver Gelatin Photographs from the New Wave and Punk Era, 1977-1980 5:00pm - 8:00pm The SPACE Art Gallery All Ages
The Slackers / Lady Hatchet / DJ 100dBs 8:00pm The Music Hall at World Cafe Live All Ages
MSSV ( Mike Bagetta & Stephen Hodges & MIKE WATT) 8:00pm Solar Myth 21+
Agnostic Front / Murphy’s Law / Violent Way / Rage and Ruin 8:00pm First Unitarian Church: Basement All Ages
Saturday, Apr 5, 2025
Time Venue Age
The Hostile City Weekender II (Night #2) Feat. Clit45 (Long Beach) / The Goons (DC) / Lost Legion (Chicago) / Mike Blanx & the SDABS (NJ) / Badterms (Boston) / Strongarm & the bullies (CA) / Noogy (Dallas, TX) / Impact Driver (Philly) / Scrapyard (NJ) 5:00pm Upper Darby American Legion Post 214 All Ages
Taxidermists / Blix / No Knuckle 7:00pm Foto Club All Ages
Assisted Living, Flash Hits, Fugue State, Webb Chapel 7:00pm Century All Ages
Paprika (LA) / Acaustix(NY) / Melonhead(OH) / Demonstrate / Commitment 7:00pm Nikki Lopez 21+
Alan Sparhawk (of Low) 7:30pm PhilaMOCA All Ages
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