Salad Days, filmmaker Scott Crawford’s 2014 documentary about Washington, DC’s fertile 1980s punk scene, turns 10 this year and the director has a new director’s cut edition just for the occasion, and ...

PUNK THE CAPITAL: BUILDING A SOUND MOVEMENT, a documentary about the rise of punk rock in the town that needed it most… Washington D.C. (1976-1983) will be available digitally everywhere on June 29th ...

A lot has changed in the 44 years since four teenagers in a D.C. punk band called Teen Idles recorded their unpolished and eponymous song, with the lyrics: “Hours in front of a TV set / We’re as idle ...

We usually think of libraries as places to quietly read or roam through countless aisles of books, but this summer, we can also find local punk bands screaming to fast-paced songs with hard melodies.

We asked several local harDCore figures to weigh in on the state of the arts in 2008; punk rock or otherwise. First in a series of 6 articles, Dance of Days author Mark Andersen recounts his favorite ...

Veteran DC punk musician Amanda MacKaye was baptized at St. Stephen’s Church, and estimates she saw her first concert there when she was seven. But the event she’s helping organize there next month, ...

There’s a new online DC punk exhibit, Persistent Vision: The D.C. Punk Collections at the University of Maryland, presented by Special Collections in Performing Arts (SCPA) at the University of ...

Any punk fan knows what a rich history DC has with the genre. From bands like Bad Brains and Minor Threat who pioneered DC hardcore to legendary venues that are still standing like the 9:30 Club, the ...

An online collection of D.C.’s punk rock past was created by John Davis, shown here in 2019, and Ben Jackson. (John Kelly/The Washington Post) Perspective by John Kelly correctionAn earlier version of ...

Arms and elbows, my son’s unmistakable curls and some eye-level feet flashed by. An optimistic crowd-surfer threw his weight into the void — and fell to the ground. This was a slam pit Wednesday night ...

Among the many changes established with David Corenswet's Superman came his new movie motto, asking the world to consider that perhaps in our modern age, "kindness is punk rock." DC is now making good ...