harDCore Santa | Punk rock kindness

 I ran into an old acquaintance while documenting volunteers at Loaves and Fishes on Christmas Day, part of the EDCJCC's D25 effort.

Ian MacKaye, ex Teen Idles, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Dischord Records guy, and now of the Evens and Coriky, was dropping off cakes and other goodies at St. Stephen's Church, where he was christened and his father is still an active and supportive member. 

It was a nice to catch up a bit, too. Good ol' Ian.

Scream at Inner Ear

Seminal DC punk band Scream is recording a new album at Inner Ear Studios in Arlington VA, with legendary engineer (and wonderful guy) Don Zientara. 

Don Zientara, Inner Ear's resident wizard

Rockin' out with Skeeter Thompson, Franz and Pete Stahl, Kent Stax, Clint Walsh, and others. Lots of friends from the old harDCore scene were about. 

Fun. Intensity. Moving ahead.

From the vaults- DC/Arlington harDCore punk

In the early 1980's I sponsored a series of dances at the alternative public high school where I taught photography, HB-Woodlawn. The reason for this was to To raise money for the photo program, but they took on a bit of life of their own. A lot of the dances featured local punk bands, new at the time, many of whom went on to fame with the Dischord Label. Teen Idles, Dain Bramage, Scream, DOA, the Dispensers, Count 4, and numerous others performed. Henry Rollins, Dave Grohl, and Jello Biafra either showed up or performed also.

Noisy, chaotic, and energetic stuff. Fun, too, in its way

A number of these pictures appeared in Cynthia Connolly's book "Banned in DC" which documented the scene from many photographers' points of view.

Here are some of my photographs from that time.