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Welcome to the Louisville Hardcore/Punk/Indie Rock History.

The purpose of this History is to catalog the underground music scenes of Louisville, KY.

Regional, smaller areas (insofar as the size of their punk/hc circles) such as Lexington, Elizabethtown, Bowling Green, Evansville, Jeffersonville, Indianapolis, Newport and Cincinnati are more than welcome to add their information as well.

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After a long lockdown approximately between 2013 - 2023, the History *is now open for new account creation and public editing*. There is a lot of content from that 10 years missing, feel free to add it! Please note that due to bots and spam, accounts younger than 4 days old are prevented from adding new pages. Please be objective and fair when adding information and feel free to correct facts or tone on existing articles.
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Louisville Bands

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Louisville People

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Venues

118 W. Main 2914 Springdale Road 540 (Jeffersonville) 624 E. Breckinridge St. 953 Air Devils Inn The Alcove (Jeffersonville) Al's Bar (Lexington) American Turners Another Place Art Sanctuary Artswatch Aslan's How Astro Black Records Audobon Skate Park The Bard's Town Bardstown Road Legion Hall Bardstown Road Youth Awareness Center Barretones The Beat Club (or The Beat) Bellarmine College Black Bear Lair Breslin Park The Brewery The Brick House The Brycc House Bulldog Cafe Butchertown Pub Cafe Dog Cafe Gecko (Elizabethtown) Cahoots CAMP Social Camp Spaceman Cardinal Inn The Care Less Lounge Carousel Club The Cat House Cavalry Lutheran Church Cave Valley Kava CD Graffiti's Chapel of St. Philip Neri Charlie's Pizzeria The Cherokee Chestnut House City Lights Clifton Community Center Clifton Unitarian Church Club 1123 (Evansville) Crescent Hill Baptist Church The Crummy Den The Crunch Zone The Cure Lounge Deer Park Church Derby City Espresso Diamond Pub & Billiards Do Drop Inn Douglass Community Center Dreamland Fern Creek Community Center First Unitarian Church The Flashback Fresh Start Growers Supply The Grand Theater (New Albany) The Green Lantern (Lexington) Ground Zero Haymarket Whiskey Bar Headliners Highland Baptist Church Highlands Tap Room Incarnation Church The Jockey Club (Newport) Kaiju Kentucky Theater Keswick Democratic Club The LAVA House

The Lang House Lisa's Oak St. Lounge Locust Headquarters (Jeffersonville) Louisville Public Skatepark Lynnview Community Center The Machine Mag Bar The Mammoth The Melody Inn (Indianapolis) The Mercury Paw The Merryweather Modern Cult Records Monnik Beer Company Nachbar Needlecrofts (barn; IN) Nelligan Hall The New Vintage The Nunnery Odeon Old Louisville Coffee OPEN Community Arts Center Pad Tight Pandamonium Phoenix Hill Tavern Planet of The Tapes Player's Portal at fifteenTWELVE The Pour House Primizee's The Quonset Hut The Red Barn Riot Skatepark The Rudyard Kipling Seidenfaden's Shelbyville Road Legion Hall Shockers Skull Alley Skull Mountain The Sleep Chamber The Sleestak Shack The Sound Stik (Jeffersonville) Sparks Spinelli's St. John UCC St. Xavier Gymnasium The Sugar Doe Cafe Solidarity Southgate House (Newport) Southgate House Revival (Newport) Sudsy Malone's (Cincinnati) Sumshee's Family Room Sun Valley The Swiss Hall TekWorld Tewligans Tidball's (Bowling Green) Tomaso's Total Eclipse The Toy Tiger Trixie's Twice Told Uncle Pleasant's Union Station Veggie Vault The Warehouse (Clarksville) The Whirling Tiger The Windmill Third Street Dive Woody's Tavern The Wormhole Zanzabar Za's Zazoo's Zena's The Zodiac

Record Labels

2 Steps Forward Adept Recordings Ancient Order of Assassins Auralgami Sounds Automatic Wreckords Auxiliary Better Days Records Brightskull Records Closed Casket Concrete Records Debauchery Records Desperate Attempt Dunkenstein Records Ear X-Tacy Ghetto Defendant Gubbey Records Hank the Herald Angel Recordings Happy Fun Time Records I Can't Believe It's A Record Company Initial Records ISVI Records Karate Body Records King Fetus Records Landmark Recordings Like Glue Records Little Heart Records Loin Seepage Louisville Hardcore Records

Louisville is For Lovers Louisville Lip Louisville Records Nerd Rock Records Never Nervous Noble Recordings Noise Pollution Obsolete Staircases Omnicron Records Plastic Parasite Recordings Porklung Records Riverock Records RKT 327 Self Destruct Shakin' Sheila Recordings Shrodinger Records Slamdek Sonablast! Recordings Sophomore Lounge Swim Hard Records Temporary Residence, Ltd. Third House Communications Three Little Girls Thrown Brick Toothless Records Tuck Records Whitehouse Records

Magazines/Fanzines/Books

13 Zine Animals That Live In Trees Bad Culture Ballbuster Bejeezus Born To Lose (*) Brat Magazine The Brick BURT Conqueror Worm (+) Cracked Out CRIME Dead In The Dirt Deadjournal The Defector Desvariar Fast Workers Die Young Fred GoodMorningSalute Hardtimes

ISA #6

Highlands Lowlife Injection In Low Carb I Stand Alone Leo Neckmonster Negative Outlook Ollyollyoxenfree Outburst Pink Flamingo Positive Thoughts pucknation dot com Revival Ink Self-Destruct Zine Slamdek A-Z Slint's Spiderland (33 1/3) The Pucknation Telecommunihomogenization Tobacco Magazine The White Diet Us Vs. Them Zine Yum-Yum White Glove Test

Shows

More flyers available in the LHxC Flyer Archive

• 540 Fest (Single Event - See Articles section)
• Bingham Park Fest (Single Event)
• Cafe Dog Incident (Single Event)
• Crazy Feast
• Cropped Out
• Daydream Fest (annual)
• The Earthquake Party (Single Event)
• The Flood Relief Show (1997) (Single Event)
• Five Fest (Single Event)
• Fuck That Guy Fest
• Fuck The Curfew Rally (Two events)
• Halloween Shows (annual)
• Help Fest (Single Event)
• Hull House Benefit (Single Event, 1980)
• InFESTed (Annual)
• Insomniacathon (RANT Festival) (several-days-long, sporadically annual events, first in 1993)
• Kentucky Eye and Ear Control free music festival (at least two events)
• Krazy Fest (Annual)
• LDB Fest (Annual)
• Llamapalooza (Annual)
• Louisville Experimental Festival
• Louisville is Dead
• Louisville Outskirts Festival
• Louisville Worst Band Contest (single event)
• Mag Bar Music Festival (Annual)
• Midwest Blood Fest (Annual)
• No Comply 502
• Poorcastle (Annual)
• Plunder Over Louisville
• PRF BBQ Louisville
• RamenFest
• Seven Sense Festival
• Slamdek Blowout (single event)
• The Southend Show (Annual. AKA Noise Pollution's March Show)
• Squarnival
• SR Fest
• Sweater Fest
• Toys For Tots Benefit (Annual)
• Zerofest (Annual)

Clubs/Crews/Organizations

327 aka RiG Crew Local 327 Anti Racist Action Courage Crew CPC DAC EPA FBC Food Not Bombs FSP Grotesque Burlesque Louisville Ladies Of Hardcore Louisville Police Department

LPSA Louisville Pick-up Soccer Organization LYV Maximum Kickball Out Loud Louisville P Posse PYFU SEG Ska Mob Slamdek Field Hockey Rockers Southwest Deathsquad Stay Gold Crew Young Communist League

Misc

• 7th Street Practice spaces
• Acme Ink
• The Argument
• Beards
• Down In The Gutter internet radio show
• DSL Recording Studio
• FearThe502
• A History of Freakwater (fansite)
• Going On Strike distro
• Headbanging Kill Your Mama Music
• I Eat Poop
• Intransit Studios
• First Saturday Show Series show series
• Last Saturday show series
• Louisville Music Index
• Louisville Music Line
• Louisville Music News
• Louisville Punk 1978-84
• Louisville Showcase
• Louisville Underground Music Archive
• Maximum Louisville Radio
• Monkey Drive
• Planet Louisville
• Sell Out Louisville Style
• The Show Of Shows
• Simple Disc
• Society Of No

Articles About Louisville Punk History/ Punk News clippings

• A Brief History of Louisville Music As It Pertains to Freakwater
• And The bands Play On from Louisville Music News
• Origin Of The Louisville Hardcore Logo
• Duncan Barlow's resignation from Hardcore
• 540 Fest newspaper article 1
• 540 Fest Newspaper Article 2
• Courier Journal article about BTGOG reunion show
• Velocity Louisville Hardcore Article 2005
• Hardcore Heaven - Courier Journal 1993
• 2020 Levi's Louisville Punk/Hardcore Campaign
• 2019 Courier Journal Straight Edge Article
• Louisville Post-Hardcore on Bandcamp
• LEO: 1991-ish through the camera lens
• Composed Production: 1991 In Pictures - LEO
• Louisville Hardcore 1983 - Julian Bevan
• ‘The personal is political’: LGBTQ community is on the cutting edge of local punk
• A look into Louisville's hardcore music scene at Spinelli's Pizzeria
• When Punk Rocked Louisville
• Oh Messy Life - Brief History of Louisville Punk, Hardcore, and Post Hardcore Scene (audio)
• Louisville’s rich musical history of saying: Fuck the system

Louisville Underground Music Archive Oral Histories

• Mark Abromavage
• John Bailey
• Mike Bucayu
• Ethan Buckler
• Allison Cross
• Alex Durig
• Mary Feiock
• Sean Garrison
• J.D. Green
• Rachel Grimes
• Catherine Irwin

• Tara Key
• Doug Maxson
• Yoko Molotov
• Carrie Neumayer
• Jeffery Lee Puckett
• Juliana Rodriguez
• Erica Rucker
• Meg Samples
• Eric Stoess
• John Timmons

Lexicon

For the new kids...

Anarchism/Anarcho-Punk Boneheads Christcore Crust Punk Crooked Edge Comp Distro DIY Drug Rock Emo Hoodie Metalcore Maximum/Minimum

The Initial Dictionary

Skinhead Split Straight Edge Vegan Vegetarian Zine Youth Crew Sellout Vinyl Records