Venues
Punk Rock Venues
Todd’s
Opening around 1974 as Todd’s Sway Lounge, owned and operated by couple/business partners Bobby Calvert & Dan Campbell, this
Bookie’s Club 870
Pre-Punk History of Bookie’s Club 870 From Cliff Bell’s to Beauchamp’s After success with several venues stretching back to
Nunzio’s
A short-lived, but notable downriver venue, Nunzio’s in Lincoln Park was a disco that would host both Bookie’s era
Bands
Punk Rock Bands
The Ivories
Started by Larry Ray and Bruce Nichols, two guitarists who had known each other since childhood in Warren, The
The 3-D Invisibles
Following turns in The Seatbelts and R.U.R. before creating his first band, Crayon Killers, Rick Mills went one further
Destroy All Monsters
Destroy All Monsters is a group in two parts: the artist collective and the straight ahead rock band. DAM
Media
Media & News
Face The 80s
“Face the 80s” was a documentary shot on sound Super 8mm film mostly in 1978 and part of 1979
SPOOEE!
Started by Johnny Chamberlin in the late summer 1978, SPOOEE! was a rival Detroit punk paper to White Noise.
WDET’s Radios in Motion
WDET, Detroit’s public radio station based at Wayne State University, was originally put on the air by the United
Stories
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