BeatNonStop A Weblog by Chris Macias Bee pop music critic Music geek (n. myü-zik 'gEk) 1: A person who proudly wore KISS commemorative pajamas in third grade. 2: A person who owns multiple copies of the same album, still buys vinyl and has a room dedicated to 2,000 or so CDs and records. 3. A person who wrote a five-part series about traveling with a local band in their stinky van - and loved every minute of it. 4: Chris Macias, the Bee's pop music critic, serving Sacramento's music scene since 1999.

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March 23, 2005

Punk rock reflections

I wrote a story that ran Sunday about the rise of punk rock radio shows in Sacramento.
The piece got me thinking about my own discovery of punk rock on the radio. During high school in the 1980s, me and a couple buddies would record KDVS' excellent punk shows on cassette tapes. It's how I discovered Husker Du, one of my all-time favorite bands, and all these other slammin' groups (Die Kreuzen, M.I.A., Toxic Reasons, J.F.A., Poison 13).
I'd kept a couple of these cassettes over the years and dusted them off when I wrote the story. The KDVS signal sounds sketchy, but hearing a set that included Descendents, the Clash and Toxic Reasons was a slam-dance of a nostalgia trip. (Anyone know what happened to Mike and Mark, the DJs who hosted those old KDVS punk shows?)
It's cool that kids today don't have to dig as much to get their punk fix. And hopefully the punk shows on KWOD and KHWD will encourage people to dig even deeper.
With all this punk moshing around my head, here's how I'd program my own block of punk rock radio:
"Sound System," Operation Ivy
"Corporate Deathburger," M.D.C.
"Police on my Back," The Clash
"Rats," Subhumans
"Celebrated Summer," Husker Du
"Margin Walker," Fugazi
"Red Monkey," Thee Milkshakes
"Terminal Preppie," Dead Kennedys
"Frankenstein," New York Dolls
"Darker My Love," T.S.O.L.
"Assertive Discipline," Captain America & the Avengers
"How Low Can a Punk Get," Bad Brains
"Small Town Depression," The Makers
"Regress No Way," 7 Seconds
"Divebomb," Red Tape
"Westcoast Worldwide," The Hoods

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