Punkast

In this episode, Jessica Schwartz and co-host Dr. Runchao Liu (S2 E9) speak with Steven Kochones, the director of KCET's Artbound: Chinatown Punk Wars about his critical choices in portraying a crucia...

17 Nov 20231h 10min

Welcome to the first episode of a Punkast mini-series: "Free and Appropriate Education?: DIY Punks' Take on Disabilities Education Legislation." This past Monday, October 30th, 2023 marks the 33rd ann...

6 Nov 202312min

In this special episode, Jessica Schwartz along with guest co-hosts, UCLA Librarians + Archivists Kelly Besser and Courtney Dean sit down to facilitate an intergenerational conversation among predomin...

31 Okt 20231h 26min

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 Juli 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 Mars 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