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History is a Riot – the Punk Music History Podcast

History is a Riot

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"History is a Riot" explores the untold history of punk music. From proto-punk and garage rock to the explosive scenes of the '70s and beyond, we trace the roots, sounds, and cultural forces that shaped a global rebellion. A deep dive into music history with grit, humor, and a whole lot of noise.

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10. Riot Grrrl: Roots to Revolution

Season 1 · Episode 10

Tuesday, September 30, 2025 • Duration 10:32

Riot Grrrl: Roots to Revolution
In the early 1990s, a new wave of punk demanded space for women’s voices. From zines to basements, Bikini Kill to Bratmobile, Riot Grrrl turned personal pain into political power. This final episode traces how feminism rewired punk – and why its echoes still matter today.

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9. Crust & Anarcho: Punk at the Edge of Collapse

Season 1 · Episode 9

Saturday, September 20, 2025 • Duration 10:14

In the late ’70s, punk met radical politics – and something darker was born. Crass turned punk into a way of life, Discharge invented the relentless D-Beat, and Amebix gave the soundtrack of apocalypse. From UK squats to global basements, crust and anarcho weren’t just genres – they were survival, protest, and resistance.

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8. Faster, Louder, Sharper: Hardcore & Straight Edge

Season 1 · Episode 8

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 • Duration 08:45

Faster, Louder, Sharper: Hardcore & Straight Edge
By the early 1980s, punk was mutating. Songs got shorter, faster, louder. In suburban basements and crowded VFW halls, hardcore was born. From Black Flag’s chaos in L.A. to Minor Threat’s precision in D.C., this was rebellion at breakneck speed. And with one 46-second song, Straight Edge turned from a personal statement into a global movement. This is the story of how hardcore stripped punk to its bones, built a code of ethics, and rewrote the sound of defiance.

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7. Worldwide Riot: The Global Spread of Punk

Season 1 · Episode 7

Wednesday, September 10, 2025 • Duration 10:04

Worldwide Riot: The Global Spread of Punk
Punk didn’t stop in London or New York. It jumped borders, crossed oceans, and rewired radios worldwide. From Brisbane’s garage chaos to Berlin’s squats, Tokyo’s controlled noise to São Paulo’s resistance under dictatorship – punk became a global language of rebellion. This is the story of how a local scene turned into a worldwide riot.

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6. Revolution Summer: Punk and Politics in Washington D.C.

Season 1 · Episode 6

Tuesday, August 26, 2025 • Duration 08:57

Revolution Summer: Punk and Politics in Washington D.C.

In the summer of 1985, Washington D.C. punk faced a crisis.
Hardcore had grown violent, toxic, and burned-out. But out of the chaos came something new: Revolution Summer.
Bands like Rites of Spring, Embrace, and Dag Nasty rejected macho posturing and turned punk inward — writing about love, honesty, and vulnerability. At the same time, they brought politics back into the music: anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-apartheid.
This short documentary explores how a few months in D.C. reshaped punk forever — laying the foundations for emo, DIY activism, and a scene that proved punk could be more than just noise.

📲 Follow the show on Instagram for daily punk history: ⁠@history_is_a_riot⁠

🎧 New episode every week. No permission required.

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5. Concrete and Chaos: Punk Takes Los Angeles

Season 1 · Episode 5

Wednesday, August 20, 2025 • Duration 10:15

Episode 5 – “Concrete and Chaos: Punk Takes Los Angeles”

Forget the Hollywood dream.
In late '70s L.A., punk wasn’t born in clubs — it crawled out of garages, skate parks, and police vans.

This episode dives into the chaos of West Coast punk:
The Germs, Black Flag, The Bags, and a scene as sprawling, angry, and unpredictable as the city itself.
From The Masque’s basement walls to hardcore’s suburban explosion — L.A. didn’t follow the punk playbook.
It tore it up.

DIY, riots, poetry, brutality —
This is punk with a sunburn and a switchblade.

🎸 Featuring: The Germs, X, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, The Bags, Suicidal Tendencies & more
📲 Follow the show on Instagram for daily punk history: @history_is_a_riot
🎧 New episode every week. No permission required.

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4. Motor City Meltdown: Detroit and the Sound of Things Falling Apart

Wednesday, August 13, 2025 • Duration 09:56

Episode 4 – “Motor City Meltdown”

Long before punk had a name, Detroit was already screaming.

In this episode of History is a Riot, we dive into a city in collapse — and the sound it made on the way down.
Riots in the streets. Factories on fire. Guitars like sirens.

This is the story of MC5’s revolutionary chaos, The Stooges’ raw destruction, and Death’s lost legacy.
It’s protest, performance, and pure noise — from the wreckage of post-industrial America.

Detroit didn’t follow punk.
It invented the weapons punk would one day use.

⚙️ Featuring: MC5, The Stooges, Death, Destroy All Monsters, Alice Cooper, Negative Approach & more
📲 Follow the show on Instagram for daily punk history: @history_is_a_riot
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3. Anarchy in the U.K.: Punk explodes in Britain

Season 1 · Episode 3

Wednesday, August 6, 2025 • Duration 09:37

It wasn’t just a sound. It was a national threat.

In this third episode of History is a Riot, punk crosses the Atlantic — and detonates in a collapsing Britain.
We’re in London, 1976: high unemployment, garbage piling in the streets, and a generation ready to scream.

Enter the Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, Siouxsie, safety pins, scandal, and Sid & Nancy.
This is how punk became working-class rebellion, media panic, fashion war, and full-blown cultural insurrection.

The U.K. didn’t invent punk.
But it weaponized it.

⚡ Featuring: Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, X-Ray Spex, Buzzcocks, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and more.
📲 Follow the show on Instagram for daily punk facts, band profiles, and scene snapshots: ⁠@history_is_a_riot⁠

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2. The Birth of Punk: NYC'S Raw Revolution

Season 1 · Episode 2

Wednesday, July 30, 2025 • Duration 09:26

Before the filth and the fury — there was New York.

In this second episode of History is a Riot, we dive into the gritty, chaotic birth of punk in 1970s NYC:
A city on the edge, a scene with no rules, and a generation that turned boredom into brilliance.

This is where punk got its swagger — in the sweat of CBGB, the sneer of Richard Hell, the poetry of Patti Smith, and the speed of the Ramones.
It wasn’t just music. It was a movement in leather and feedback.

No filters. No future. No apologies.

🎸 Featuring: Television, New York Dolls, Patti Smith, Suicide, The Ramones, Richard Hell, Blondie, and more.
📲 Follow the show on Instagram for daily punk facts, band profiles, and scene snapshots: ⁠@history_is_a_riot⁠

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1. Before the Riot: The Long Fuse of Punk

Season 1 · Episode 1

Thursday, July 24, 2025 • Duration 10:31

Long before mohawks, middle fingers on TV, and three-chord anthems, punk was already alive — in basement jams, fuzzed-out riffs, and the refusal to behave.
In this debut episode of History is a Riot, we trace punk’s roots through 1950s rock’n’roll rebellion, 1960s garage grit, psychedelic chaos, proto-punk noise, glam defiance, and German experimentalism — right up to the sweaty floorboards of CBGB’s.

It’s not a list. It’s a fuse.

And we’re lighting it.

🔧 Featuring: Little Richard, The Sonics, The Monks, Velvet Underground, MC5, The Stooges, Can, Bowie, and more.

📲 Follow the show on Instagram for daily punk facts, band profiles, and scene snapshots: @history_is_a_riot

📚 Sources & References – Episode 1: Before the Riot – The Long Fuse of Punk

This episode is based on a mix of oral histories, music journalism, academic research, and original interviews. For further reading, check out:

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk – Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain
From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock – Clinton Heylin
England’s Dreaming – Jon Savage
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century – Greil Marcus
Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984 – Simon Reynolds
Suicide: No Compromise – David Nobakht
Revenge of the She-Punks – Vivien Goldman

Punk: Attitude (dir. Don Letts, 2005)
The Filth and the Fury (dir. Julien Temple, 2000)

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