Washington – popcultural suburb Although hardcore originated in Los Angeles, where the punk scene out of some urban elitism did not include suburban teenagers, it soon came to be mainly identifed with Washington. In the late seventies Washington possessed only a small, insignificant punk and new wave scene that lacked both originality and quality. Nevertheless, [...]

Mission Statement I first came in contact with harDCore, Washington’s very own version of hardcore punk, approx. a year ago, while looking for a good topic for a paper. Back then I participated in a class that for the better part took place in D.C. and the requirement for the paper was just that it [...]

The Bad Brains’ Attitude, one of their early songs from the days when they were still a punk band in Washington, was one of the songs that accompanied my efforts to write a paper on the hardcore/punk scene of that city. Weirdly, it was my first paper ever on popular culture and I’m quite satisfied [...]

So, last pre-Washington post. Tomorrow United Airlines will hopefully deliver me safely to the US. Hence the song of the day by lovely Glaswegian band Camera Obscura. I will try to bring back lots of pics and experiences to feed this tiny post. Although its a rather short flight (only about 8 hours) and I [...]

I will be going to Washington in a few weeks for a class on the interaction of history, politics, geography and architecture and, needless to say, I’m already awfully stoked. It has not been finally decided which places we will visit, but we will probably see the Capitol, the National Building Museum, the National Archives, [...]