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Documenting the DC punk community since 2014! @dcpubliclibrary
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Dug up some more relics from ye olde Shudder archives. What’s your favorite?

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Lost Origins & Trust Records are excited to announce "Are You Ready! The Birth of Bad Brains & Their First Studio Recording."

Opening Friday, November 6, we bring together rarely seen artifacts, film footage, photographs, and original flyers covering 1978 to 1980, the first two years of the band and the time that they still lived in DC.

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Gray Matter's Geoff Turner & Steve Niles discuss the creation of the song "Swann Street."

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Thank you, DC Punk Archive for hosting a graphic novel author talk and book signing of “Take It Back: Life, Anxiety, and Gray Matter.”

It was great to hear stories from the band, see the continued friendship, learn how the book took shape, and then hear about a possible new album coming. Can’t wait to read this (and find the easter eggs).

(l to r) Geoff Turner, Dante Ferrando, Steve Niles, Monica Richards (Strange Boutique), Brian Walsby (🎨), and Steve DiLodovico.

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Thomas Venker from @kaput_mag recently travelled to the U.S. for transatlantic talks with the punk communities in DC and LA. Here is what punk means to him. Wanna learn more about punk? Read our latest issue Punk@50, a legendary collaboration with Kaput — Magazin für Insolvenz und Pop and Gegenüber, the transatlantic Magazin of the Goethe- Institut in North America. Link in bio or go to goethe.de/gegenuber/punkat50 🎥 Allison Paul / @humancomposer

#Punk@50 #goetheinstitut #gegenuber

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Shorties to the swap! Birthday edition! ✨

Everyone 5’4” and under are invited to join us for La Petite Swap Part 2️⃣, a clothing swap for everyone petite in our community.

Bring everything that you may give to a friend - clothing shoes, and accessories! Please do not bring stained, soiled, and wet items. No used undergarments and socks.

Bring 5, take 5!

Free! Leftovers will be donated to Goodwill.

We are also collecting bras and any type of individually sealed menstrual hygiene products for the nonprofit, @isupportthegirls!

Hosted by your petite pals, @bigsmallls and @petite_punk (birthday shortie)!

Volunteers needed please to help with setup, sorting and cleanup! Bring sweets toooo! 🍬

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grateful for all the people DC punk brings together and the privilege of experience, thank you @dcpunkarchive

📸📸 Photos by @juliarwwhite (1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 11), @kyle_meyers (4, 7, 8, 9) and @alecpugliese (3)

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FINALLY VINYL AFTER 40 YEARS

Seize the Day (Carpe Diem)… Trust Little to Tomorrow

These photos come from the “Alternate Military Parade” concert in Dupont Circle on Armed Forces Day—May 17, 1986. Organized by @positiveforcedc

The afternoon brought together several bands working beyond the familiar boundaries of D.C. hardcore:
- 9353 (No. VA/ DC - R&B Records / @fountainofyouthrecords ) — theatrical, eerie, experimental post-punk.
- Beefeater (@dischordrecords / Olive Tree Records) — politically charged, funk-driven post-hardcore.
- 11th Hour (No. VA) — lean, melodic post-punk edge arpeggios.
- Mourning Glories (DC - Lidia Husik, @Peterhayes , Mitch Parker (GI)) — raw, melodic punk and early indie rock.
- Grey March (Baltimore - Unconscious Records) — brooding, atmospheric post-punk,psychedelic undercurrents.
- Carpe Diem (DC / MD - Idiot Music Inc. / Numero Group) — urgent, melodic indie rock rooted in harDCore punk.
- Tarakahn (no documented label release) — an elusive local punk band whose music remains largely undocumented.

We were so delighted to be on stage with bands that we loved in our beloved DC scene.

Carpe Diem’s songs from that time originally circulated on only fifty cassettes.

Now, remastered from the original @InnerEarStudios recorded by @donzientara and produced by Ian Mackaye, Trust Little to Tomorrow finally has the vinyl life we dreamed about as teenagers.

Photographer Kim Sampson.
@carpe_diem_dcpunk @dcpunkarchive @innerearstudio @positiveforcedc

#DCPunk #RevolutionSummer #PositiveForceDC #IndieRock NumeroGroup

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9.9 MLK LIBRARY 🍏 DC, you shook the whole city and made it loud n’ clear that riot grrrl is back. It’s a DC punk right of passage to play the @dcpunkarchive library rooftop series, see you in 2027 grrrls 💋💋💋

Thank you to everyone who made this night possible! Support our wonderful hosts @dcpunkarchive, @mlklibraryfriends, @dcpubliclibrary, and @mtpleasantlibraryfriends bc there’s nothing more punk than the public library 📚 Thank you to the @rediscoverfirebooking production team and to all the photographers that captured this unforgettable show!

📸📸 Photos by our resident photographer and beautiful artist @juliarwwhite 🍏🩷

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Riot grrrl is a MOVEMENT. Say it with us: Anyone can be a riot grrrl! 🍏 If you are fighting back against m1sogyny, advocating for women & girls, confronting r4pe culture, holding yourself and those around you accountable, and understanding the nuance of experience through intersectionality, then you are a riot grrrl!

We’re Mac N’ Toss, Washington DC’s riot grrrl band, and the movement is back and better than ever. We just released our first album, ‘What She Buried’, out everywhere on streaming and coming to you soon on CDs! 💿🍏

Thank you @dcpunkarchive, @mlklibraryfriends, and @rediscoverfirebooking for hosting us!

🎥🎥 Video by @jrwwpictures

#riotgrrrl #punk #diymusic #washingtondc

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@mac.n.toss at MLK Library.

9/9/2026

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@truthordaredc at MLK Library.

9/9/2026

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