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Originally known as JC’s Rock Saloon, a biker bar where a notorious fight broke out at a Traitors/Ramrods show

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The Detroit Punk Archive is made possible thanks to matching grant support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of the Detroit Arts Challenge program.

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Welcome! Here’s How it Works…

October 29, 2018

Welcome to the Detroit Punk Archive! This site aims to tell the stories of the bands in the scene that started just before and around Bookie’s Club 870 in early 1978. The site is broken up into THREE main sections: BANDS, VENUES, and MEDIA: The BANDS section features pages on the various groups that started […]

UPDATE – APRIL 6th, 2022

April 6, 2022

Just a quick shout out that BADHABIT is seeing their unreleased tracks from 1980-1981 released on vinyl in a special limited run from Italy’s Rave Up Records label. You can get your copy through this link.

UPDATE – OCTOBER 25th, 2022

October 25, 2022

It’s been a while since my last update. Big news is expected soon on a few fronts. In the meantime, a short documentary from the WTVS – Detroit Public TV – program One Detroit just posted last night about “Detroit’s punk rock history at the All-Star Garage Rock Punk Revue”. Take a look – you […]

UPDATE: DECEMBER 18th, 2022

December 18, 2022

Hello Friends, Today’s Detroit Free Press – in print and online – features a story about the importance of the Bookie’s punk rock scene. I wrote it because my friend, great Detroit historian and journalist, Bill McGraw asked me to contribute to his on-gong Detroit history column in the paper. Here’s a link (it is […]

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