Every Tuesday, we explore the music scene in Bloomington, Indiana.
PLAYING BLOOMINGTONSituation X Brings Peruvian Punk to NOISE Gallery
As a professor of anthropology at Indiana University, Dr. Shane Greene's focus on Latin American and Caribbean Studies brought him to an unexpected area of research: the various underground punk movements of Peru. For American and UK audiences, punk symbolized rebellion through aggressive music and...
Rebecca Kunin
PLAYING BLOOMINGTONLive Music Highlights from August
Rarely a night goes by in Bloomington without locals filling the basements of show-houses, bobbing their heads to punk, garage, and grunge riffs. Once a month, Rebecca recounts some of the live music highlights from the previous four weeks. Read and listen below for a bevy of Bloomington bands that...
Rebecca Kunin
PLAYING BLOOMINGTONMeet Fresh Kill
Jess Mann and Emma Johnson of Fresh Kill, one of the newest bands to appear on the local scene, began writing songs together almost immediately after Emma started taking drum lessons back in February. In the notably short span of time that has since passed, the two have been busy writing and...
Rebecca Kunin
PLAYING BLOOMINGTONLive Music Highlights from July
Rarely a night goes by in Bloomington without locals filling the basements of show-houses, bobbing their heads to punk, garage, and grunge riffs. Once a month, Rebecca recounts some of the live music highlights from the previous four weeks. Read and listen below for a bevy of Bloomington bands that...
Rebecca Kunin
PLAYING BLOOMINGTONOn Dasher's Powerful Debut Sodium
Kylee Kimbrough knocked over her drum set and walked off the stage as the crowd took pictures and cheered at the Dasher release party this weekend. Along with bandmates Gary Magilla (bass) and Derek McCain (guitar), she had just delivered a stormy live performance in celebration of Sodium, Dasher’s...
Rebecca Kunin
PLAYING BLOOMINGTONGluestick Zine Fest
This Saturday I drove to Indianapolis to attend the second annual Gluestick 2017, Indianapolis’s zine and small publishing festival. Held at the historic Irving Theater, Gluestick featured zines, comics, prints, and limited circulation books from publishing companies and individuals from...
Rebecca Kunin
PLAYING BLOOMINGTONJessie Grubb and Bethany Lumsdaine of Shut Up and Listen
Shut up and Listen is a serial zine based out of Bloomington, Indiana that focuses on the (mostly local) underground music scene. Jessie Grubb and Bethany Lumsdaine are the creative partners and best friends behind the zine and radio show under the same name. Grubb and Lumsdaine have been self...
Rebecca Kunin
PLAYING BLOOMINGTONLive Music Highlights from June
(June 24) Jacky Boy @ the Void Bloomington locals Mark, Stone, and Steve constitute the trio of secular rockers known as Jacky Boy that opened up the night at Punks Give Back #4. Punks Give Back! Bloomington is a local branch of Punks Give Back!, a national, not-for-profit organization that...
Rebecca Kunin
PLAYING BLOOMINGTONFemme Night @ The Dream
The Bloomington house show network is comprised of dozens of privately owned and rented houses that are scattered across town. On any given night, students and other young adults freely filter in and out of these spaces, packing themselves into hot, stuffy, unfinished basements in order to...
Rebecca Kunin
PLAYING BLOOMINGTONThe Dancing Cigarettes
Whenever I tell people that I research the Bloomington punk scene, they are often surprised to learn about its existence and skeptical about its ability to be anything other than a small-scale replica of more famous scenes in larger cities. While Bloomington reacts to and against other punk scenes,...
Rebecca Kunin
PLAYING BLOOMINGTONPunks Give Back @ The Root Cellar
Punks Give Back! Bloomington is a local branch of Punks Give Back!, a national, not-for-profit organization that supports local artists and organizers to raise money for local nonprofit organizations. Punks Give Back! Bloomington organizes a monthly event with music and poetry in order to channel...
Rebecca Kunin
PLAYING BLOOMINGTONAmy O on Zine Culture and Basement Pop
Seventy low laps around the track You’ll want to look back From Ohio to the east onto the midwest Time pools in the past Amy Oelsner (otherwise known as Amy O) has been fine-tuning her brand of grunge-infused basement pop since 2004. Although some might know her as one-half of the Bloomington-based...
