Punkast

In this episode, Jessica Schwartz talks with Dr. Runchao Liu about the LA Chinatown Punk Scene, sensationalist media interventions, and the often blurry line between appreciation and appropriation. We...

11 Okt 20231h 8min

In this episode, Jessica Schwartz and Tequila Mockingbird talk with Mat Gleason of Coagula Art Journal and Al's Bar about 'punk literacy,' critical 'evisceration,' astrology, and managing one of the b...

11 Aug 202354min

In this episode, Jessica Schwartz talks with Barry Seidel of the Hong Kong Café about how his life and career in music led to his pivotal role in the LA punk scene and, of course, the Chinatown Punk W...

18 Jul 202358min

Coming at you from the sunny mean streets of Hollywood in hot new technicolor vision Lovers of dreams, loud guitars, mountains, that silver moth dust, cracked sidewalks, motel ritual magick, we are ev...

22 Mar 202355min

In this episode, Jessica Schwartz speaks with Evan Rapport, an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at The New School. He is the author of Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk (Univer...

16 Feb 20231h 32min

In this episode, Jessica Schwartz speaks with the founders of Colectivo Archivo Contracultural Uruguay (the Countercultural Archive of Uruguay, CAC): Allie da Silva Srulowitz and Eugenio Amen. CAC is ...

25 Jan 20231h 17min

“Punk music finds life in one of L.A.’s oldest adobe homes in this original theaterwork. Set in the early 1980s in working-class Bell Gardens, three young punk musicians, from disparate cultures, squa...

15 Jan 20231h 28min

In this episode, Jessica Schwartz talks to Ziba Pérez (Young Adult Librarian, Los Angeles Public Library), Yago Cura (bilingual Adult Services Librarian for the Los Angeles Public Library, and owner o...

16 Des 20221h 10min