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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.
We currently have 3,458 articles for you to expand on and contribute to.
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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Venues
Record Labels
Magazines/Fanzines/Books
Shows
- 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
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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
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