Punkast

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Jessica Schwartz, Associate Professor of Musicology and Music Industry at UCLA, sets out to explore the meaning of punk through conversations with the people who shape, live, and remix it—musicians, videographers, cultural producers, and the academics who study it—while animating punk’s DIY creativity, resistance, and sense of possibility. Schwartz also co-hosts the Punk Scholars Podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. Si Paton (Experimental Music)

    vor 4 Tagen

    Si Paton (Experimental Music)

    Punkast is a weekly podcast exploring punk in the historical present through critical conversations, inquiry, and collaboration. >>> Follow the show to stay tapped in. New episodes every Friday. In this episode: Experimental composer, improviser, and educator Si Paton joins Jessica Schwartz for a live conversation with UCLA students exploring listening, neurodivergence, improvisation, and the creative intersections of punk, noise, jazz, and DIY music cultures. Together, they discuss how musical communities emerge through collaboration, experimentation, and shared practices of listening, while reflecting on improvisation as both a creative process and a way of navigating the world. The conversation also explores graphic notation, theatrical performance, ensemble composition, and Paton's research on developing shared musical languages across diverse musical traditions. Throughout, Paton reflects on the value of embracing uncertainty, making mistakes, and creating spaces where experimentation can thrive. Si Paton is a composer, bassist, academic, and promoter. He completed his PhD at Birmingham Conservatoire under the supervision of Ed Bennett and Seán Clancy, researching composition for improvising large ensembles and the development of shared musical languages across different stylistic traditions. He previously studied electric bass and jazz composition at the University of West London with Paul Westwood and Eddie Harvey. Past projects include the prog-jazz group Selectric, punk-funk big band Pack of Wolves Arkestra, and the acoustic-grindcore suite Gillberg Variations. As an improviser, he has performed with Nils Økland, Steve Tromans, Chris Sharkey, Maria Chiara Argirò, Cath Roberts, and Apocalypse Jazz Unit. He is also the curator of Thinking/Not Thinking Fest, a three-day festival celebrating musical juxtapositions. This conversation includes questions and contributions from students in a UCLA musicology course facilitated by Jessica Schwartz and was recorded in January 2024. Links + References: Si Paton - Instagram Si Paton Bandcamp Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (Bandcamp) Sound and Music (composer profile) Apocalypse Jazz Unit (Bandcamp) Credits: Punkast is hosted and produced by Jessica Schwartz. Editorial support: Arrow Avalon. Transcript: Audio-synced transcript Theme Music: Lady Bits, "Bitch-a-thon," Lady Bits. Related: Jessica Schwartz co-hosts the Punk Scholars Podcast.  Connect with Punkast: Spotify Instagram: punkastucla Stay tapped in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    49 Min.
  2. Serafina Maxima (Photographer) + Arrow Avalon (Punkast Correspondent): ICE Out of Los Angeles

    18. Juni

    Serafina Maxima (Photographer) + Arrow Avalon (Punkast Correspondent): ICE Out of Los Angeles

    Punkast is a weekly podcast exploring punk in the historical present through critical conversations, inquiry, and collaboration. >>> Follow the show to stay tapped in. New episodes every Friday. In this episode: ICE OUT OF LOS ANGELES 'Fear literally controls people. It ruins ...it runs people's lives...the stuff of nightmares.' 'We can't really make progress without solidarity from men, from people of all ages, and from people all across the spectrum... we just need solidarity across struggles and oppressions.' '...it's just really exciting to see what comes out of Los Angeles, like communities, you know.' Punkast correspondent Arrow Avalon is joined by Los Angeles photographer, organizer, and community builder Serafina Maxima in a conversation exploring photography, punk, community, and the ongoing impacts of immigration enforcement in Los Angeles. Known for her community-centered Photobook Meetups, Serafina reflects on photography as art, documentation, and activism while discussing the responsibilities that come with representing communities through images. Together, Arrow and Serafina explore local organizing, creative spaces, women in photography, and the role of cultural workers in preserving community histories. The conversation also addresses ICE-related violence, protest, policing, and the ways fear, documentation, and collective memory shape everyday life in Los Angeles. As part of an ongoing Punkast project examining punk, community, and responses to immigration enforcement, this episode highlights lived experiences, grassroots organizing, and the importance of creating spaces for connection and solidarity. Arrow Avalon is a Punkast correspondent + guest producer as well as a photographer, musician, promoter, and UCLA undergraduate whose work explores punk, photography, community, and social justice in Los Angeles. Recorded May 2026 Links + References: Serafina Maxima: IG @f1lmfomo Arrow Avalon: IG @arrow.avalon Credits: Punkast is hosted and produced by Jessica Schwartz. Correspondent: Arrow Avalon Editorial support: Arrow Avalon– audio editing, episode notes, and audio-synced transcript. Cover Photo: Gregory Bojourquez Transcript: Audio-synced transcript Theme Music: Lady Bits, "Bitch-a-thon," Lady Bits. Related: Jessica Schwartz co-hosts the Punk Scholars Podcast on the Punk Scholars Network.  Connect with Punkast: Spotify Instagram: punkastucla Stay tapped in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    36 Min.
  3. Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols)

    12. Juni

    Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols)

    Punkast is a weekly podcast exploring punk in the historical present through critical conversations, inquiry, and collaboration. >>> Follow the show to stay tapped in. New episodes every Friday. In this episode: ‘There's no future unless you try and change it.’ Jessica Schwartz is joined by Sex Pistols bassist and songwriter Glen Matlock in a conversation recorded in London at Oxford Circus. Together, they reflect on the political and cultural conditions that shaped the emergence of punk in 1970s Britain—from economic decline and social unrest to questions of identity, community, and change. Matlock discusses the early days of the Sex Pistols, London's music and style cultures, the role of Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's shop, and the relationships between punk, politics, and everyday life. In addition, he reflects on Brexit, nationalism, cultural memory, and the ways people continue to search for belonging and possibility through music and collective action. Glen Matlock is a musician, songwriter, and founding member of the Sex Pistols. He co-wrote many of the band's best-known songs, including “Pretty Vacant,” and contributed to the music of “Anarchy in the U.K.” Beyond the Sex Pistols, he has performed with Rich Kids, The Faces, and numerous solo projects. A lifelong songwriter and performer, his work continues to draw on influences ranging from early rock and roll and British mod culture to soul, rhythm and blues, and jazz. Recorded at Oxford Circus, London, United Kingdom, in December 2019. One of the earliest interviews recorded for Punkast, this conversation captures a moment when debates around Brexit, nationalism, and cultural identity were reshaping public life in Britain, while reflecting on the histories and conditions that helped give rise to punk decades earlier. Links + References: Glen Matlock Glen Matlock - YouTube Glen Matlock - Sex Pistols | The Official Website I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol (Paperback) I Was A Teenage Sex Pistols (Trailer) Credits: Punkast is hosted and produced by Jessica Schwartz. Guest produced by Tequila Mockingbird. Editorial support: Arrow Avalon– audio editing. Cover Photo: Danny Clifford Transcript: Audio-synced transcript Theme Music: Lady Bits, "Bitch-a-thon," Lady Bits Related: Jessica Schwartz co-hosts the Punk Scholars Podcast on the Punk Scholars Network. Connect with Punkast: Spotify Instagram: punkastucla Stay tapped in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    55 Min.
  4. Corbett Redford and John Goshert (East Bay Punk)

    5. Juni

    Corbett Redford and John Goshert (East Bay Punk)

    Punkast is a weekly podcast exploring punk in the historical present through critical conversations, inquiry, and collaboration. >>> Follow the show to stay tapped in. New episodes every Friday. In this episode: “I didn’t feel judgment. I felt more acceptance that I could be my strange self.” Jessica Schwartz is joined by filmmaker Corbett Redford and professor John Goshert to reflect on the East Bay punk community and the DIY practices that have shaped generations of musicians, artists, and organizers. In this episode, we discuss the infrastructures, cultural formations, and communities that emerged through Gilman Street and the broader East Bay punk scene. Through Corbett Redford’s film Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk and John Goshert’s punk scholarship, their work has helped document and circulate the story of Gilman Street far beyond the East Bay. Corbett Redford is a filmmaker, musician, actor, writer, and voice-over artist from the California Bay Area. An East Bay native, he recently moved with his family and their gaggle of pets to the Russian River Valley in Northern California. He is currently working with his band, Bobby Joe Ebola & The Children MacNuggits, on Solar Cantata, a 20-song concept album and the band's first release in twelve years. John (Chuck) Goshert started going to punk shows in 1984, becoming involved in the Bay Area scene through legendary venues such as Ruthie’s Inn, the Farm, and Gilman Street. After playing in a number of bands from 1986–1996, he moved to Indiana to pursue a PhD in philosophy and literature. Since 2001, he has taught English at Utah Valley University, where his work focuses on critical theory, cultural studies, and American literature, with particular emphasis on multiethnic and LGBTQ literature and culture. More than a venue, Gilman Street became a space where people learned to create, organize, and participate in building their own culture. Recorded March 2024. Links + References: instagram.com/corbettredford eastbaypunk.com bobbyjoeebola.com Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children Macnuggits - Spotify - johngoshert.com instagram.com/jcgoshert instagram.com/marymotherofbear instagram.com/oddequals - More info on Turn it Around: The Story of East Bay Punks  Watch Turn it Around: The Story of East Bay Punks on Tubi Watch urn it Around: The Story of East Bay Punks on Plex   Credits: Punkast is hosted and produced by Jessica Schwartz. Editorial support: Melissa Hernandez – audio editing, episode notes, and audio-synced transcript. Transcript: Audio-synced transcript link Theme Music: Lady Bits, "Bitch-a-thon," Lady Bits. Related: Jessica Schwartz co-hosts the Punk Scholars Podcast on the Punk Scholars Network.  Connect with Punkast: Spotify Instagram: punkastucla Stay tapped in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 Std. 24 Min.
  5. Ran Zwigenberg + Mahon Murphy (Japanese Punk)

    29. Mai

    Ran Zwigenberg + Mahon Murphy (Japanese Punk)

    Punkast is a weekly podcast exploring punk in the historical present through critical conversations, inquiry, and collaboration. >>> Follow the show to stay tapped in. New episodes every Friday. In this episode: “Distinguish themselves within Japanese society as being not part of the kind of mainstream.” Jessica Schwartz is joined by historians Ran Zwigenberg and Mahon Murphy in a conversation exploring how punk, hardcore, and underground culture took shape across Kyoto and Osaka through student movements, DIY venues, and the global circulation of Japanese punk. Together, they discuss the social geography of Japan in the 1980s, the evolution of local punk scenes, and the infrastructures that enabled Japanese punk to travel beyond Japan and connect with audiences worldwide. Ran Zwigenberg is an Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University whose research focuses on modern Japanese and European history, memory, and cultural history. Mahon Murphy is an Associate Professor at Kyoto University whose work examines the global dimensions of the First World War. Together, they are the authors of S.O.B.’s Don’t Be Swindle (Bloomsbury, 2024), which chronicles the 1980s Kyoto/Kansai hardcore punk scene through the influential band S.O.B. This conversation includes questions and contributions from UCLA students in a course facilitated by Jessica Schwartz and was recorded in February 2024. Links + References: Seibu Kōdō and  Punk in Kyoto Mahon Murphy (Faculty Profile) Ran Zwigenberg (Faculty Profile) S.O.B.’s Don’t Be Swindle (Bloomsbury 2024).    Credits: Punkast is hosted and produced by Jessica Schwartz. Editorial support: Melissa Hernandez – audio editing, episode notes, and audio-synced transcript. Transcript: Audio-synced transcript Theme Music: Lady Bits, "Bitch-a-thon," Lady Bits. Related: Jessica Schwartz co-hosts the Punk Scholars Podcast on the Punk Scholars Network.  Connect with Punkast: Spotify Instagram: punkastucla Stay tapped in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 Std. 2 Min.
  6. Pavla Jonssonová (Subcultures)

    22. Mai

    Pavla Jonssonová (Subcultures)

    Punkast is a weekly podcast exploring punk in the historical present through critical conversations, inquiry, and collaboration. >>> Follow the show to stay tapped in. New episodes every Friday. In this episode: “Like making something permanent, from impermanent to permanent. We managed to do that.” Jessica Schwartz is joined by musician, scholar, and educator Pavla Jonssonová in a conversation tracing punk, feminism, censorship, and subcultural survival across the former Soviet Bloc and beyond. Jonssonová reflects on performing in an all-female band while navigating state censorship, underground music networks, and the shifting political climate of late socialist Czechoslovakia. Together, they explore women in punk, the afterlives of Riot Grrrl, DIY creativity, and the circulation of subcultural ideas, music, and resistance across borders and generations. In addition, Jonssonová discusses her ongoing work in scholarship, music, and community-based performance projects. Pavla Jonssonová, PhD. has taught courses at Charles University in Prague, Anglo-American University in Prague, and CIEE Prague. Since her 1998 Fulbright scholarship at UC Santa Cruz, she has specialized in teaching about subcultures. Since 1980, she has performed original music as a founding member of the women’s rock band Zuby nehty, who have produced multiple albums, poetry books, and a film for Czech television. From Los Angeles and Prague, punk moves across time, borders, and political worlds. Recorded November 2020. Links + References: Pavla Jonsssonová (faculty profile) Zuby nehty - Website   Zuby nehty (Wikipedia) Růžové vrány. Muzikantky 21. století (Interviews with twenty Czech women musicians) Volvox Globátor: Praha 2020 Devět z české hudební alternativy osmdesátých let (Czech Music Alternative of the 1980s) Karolinum: Praha 2019 Women, Music, Creativity: from Hildegard to Cosey Fanni Tutti. Lambert Academic Publishing: Berlin 2017 Credits: Punkast is hosted and produced by Jessica Schwartz. Editorial support: Melissa Hernandez – audio editing, episode notes, and audio-synced transcript. Transcript: Audio-synced transcript Theme Music: Lady Bits, "Bitch-a-thon," Lady Bits. Related: Jessica Schwartz co-hosts the Punk Scholars Podcast on the Punk Scholars Network. Connect with Punkast: Spotify Instagram: punkastucla Stay tapped in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    48 Min.
  7. Jeff Hayton (Historian)

    15. Mai

    Jeff Hayton (Historian)

    Punkast is a weekly podcast exploring punk in the historical present through critical conversations, inquiry, and collaboration. >>> Follow the show to stay tapped in. New episodes every Friday. In this episode: “... Show the kind of global nature of punk… retranslated or rearticulated.” Jessica Schwartz is joined by historian Jeff Hayton in a conversation exploring punk in East and West Germany across the Cold War divide. Together, they examine how punk circulated through underground networks, crossed political and cultural borders, and took shape differently on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Hayton reflects on the geopolitical and social conditions that shaped German punk, the infrastructures through which music and ideas moved, and the ways punk became a means of reimagining everyday life, identity, and possibility within divided Germany. Jeff Hayton is an Associate Professor of Modern European History at Wichita State University whose work explores punk, popular culture, and modern German history. His book, Culture from the Slums: Punk Rock in East and West Germany (Oxford University Press, 2022), examines punk scenes across the Cold War divide and the ways punk circulated, transformed, and challenged political and cultural systems. He is currently writing new books on mountaineering and modern Germany. This conversation includes questions and contributions from students in a UCLA musicology course facilitated by Jessica Schwartz and was recorded in March 2024.  Links + References: Dr. Jeff Hayton (faculty profile) Email: jeffrey.hayton@wichita.edu Culture from the Slums: Punk Rock in East and West Germany | email Jeff Hayton for copy!  Credits: Punkast is hosted and produced by Jessica Schwartz. Editorial support: Melissa Hernandez – audio editing, episode notes, and audio-synced transcript. Transcript: Audio-synced transcript  Theme Music: Lady Bits, "Bitch-a-thon," Lady Bits. Related: Jessica Schwartz co-hosts the Punk Scholars Podcast on the Punk Scholars Network. Connect with Punkast: Spotify Instagram: punkastucla Stay tapped in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    56 Min.
  8. Lesli Spivey (Deathrock)

    8. Mai

    Lesli Spivey (Deathrock)

    Punkast is a weekly podcast exploring punk in the historical present through critical conversations, inquiry, and collaboration. >>> Follow the show to stay tapped in. New episodes every Friday. In this episode: “You’re like a horror movie on stage… Said “Oh yeah? Look at us!”... The media delegitimizes subcultures.” Jessica Schwartz and Tequila Mockingbird are joined by Lesli Spivey from the early Los Angeles deathrock scene, a genre shaped through punk, horror, and B-movie magic.  Lesli reflects on how deathrock emerged beneath Hollywood’s bright lights and redefined Tineltown’s glitzy spectacle into gothic punk performances, offering insight into subversion and shaping her sound into something heavier, more grounded as rhythm, community, and subcultural survival. Her Indigenous heritage has influenced her views on anarchy, her critics of systems, and how the media delegitimizes subcultures. Spivey, both as part of the Cherokee Nation and the punk scene, has contributed to amplifying the voices often erased throughout history.  Lesli Spivey is also known as Elvorian Von Spivey from the band “Penis Flytrap”. Penis Flytrap is an American deathrock band formed in Los Angeles. Known for “shock rock” sounds and intense, chaotic live performances, the group also includes Dinah Cancer (45 Grave), Lucifer Fulci, and Hal Satan. She was also in the band “Anima Mundi”, an anarcho-punk collective that toured the U.S West Coast with British punk band “Conflict”. Outside of music, she also contributed to starting the satellite version of the Cherokee nation out in Los Angeles, where she served on the council for several years.  Since she started playing guitar in the Los Angeles punk/death rock scene in 1977, Spivey continues to be foundational in supporting and creating spaces for subcultural survival.  Recorded May 2026. Links + References: Lesli Spivey Facebook Anima Mundi - Discography Penis Flytrap Discography     William Faith - Faith and the Muse Tsa-La-Gi LA: Cherokee Los Angeles  Credits: Punkast is hosted and produced by Jessica Schwartz. Co-hosted by Tequila Mockingbird. Guest produced by Tequila Mockingbird. Editorial support: Melissa Hernandez – audio editing, episode notes, and audio-synced transcript. Transcript: Audio-synced transcript Theme Music: Lady Bits, "Bitch-a-thon," Lady Bits. Related: Jessica Schwartz co-hosts the Punk Scholars Podcast on the Punk Scholars Network.  Connect with Punkast: Spotify Instagram: punkastucla Stay tapped in. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    59 Min.
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Jessica Schwartz, Associate Professor of Musicology and Music Industry at UCLA, sets out to explore the meaning of punk through conversations with the people who shape, live, and remix it—musicians, videographers, cultural producers, and the academics who study it—while animating punk’s DIY creativity, resistance, and sense of possibility. Schwartz also co-hosts the Punk Scholars Podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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