Washington, DC: Seat of power, swamp to be drained, and a city that — in the late 1970s — was not pegged to be the next big scene of anything. This episode delves deep into the bands and sounds that were swirling about in the nation’s capital in the late 1970s. We’ll talk about how those bands, as well as British Oi, California hardcore, and an apocryphal concert by The Cramps in 1979 changed the lives of countless kids, many of whom would go to form bands like Teen Idles, SOA, Void, Minor Threat and many more.

Brief introductions and opening remarks. Find out why David has just the slightest twinge of a southern accent and why Nick still stans for a pre-Real Housewives era Bravo. We’ll also talk a bit about coming to punk in the late 1990s and early 2000s, how Fugazi’s The Argument (and simultaneously released Furniture EP) makes a natural place to start this podcast, and how a label like Dischord could get its start in a so-called musical backwater like Washington, DC. 

(Ed. note: Yes, we know we mispronounce Guy Picciotto's last name. Ian MacKaye was nice enough to email us about it and we never made the mistake after that.)