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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 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 BLOOMINGTONWhy Bloomington? An Intro to Hoosier Punk

The back cover of MX-80 Sound LP Out of the Tunnel. Photo by Kim Torgerson (c. 1980) I moved from Brooklyn, New York to Bloomington, Indiana in the fall of 2014 to pursue a PhD in Ethnomusicology at Indiana University - in a nutshell, to study music within its cultural context. Coming from a...

Rebecca Kunin