3/27 Salad Days @ The Somerville Theatre

Salad Days Official Trailer from Scott Crawford on Vimeo

Rock Shop is honored and thrilled to present the Boston premiere of Salad Days.

The film will be screened at The Somerville Theatre on Friday, March 27th, 2015 at 7:30pm.

Advance tickets are available HERE.

FB Event is HERE.

A discussion with Jim Saah (Producer, photographer) and Mark Robinson (Unrest, Teen-Beat Records) will follow the screening!

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SALAD DAYS: The Birth of Hardcore Punk in the Nation’s Capital”  is a [documentary] that examines the fertile Washington, DC punk scene of the 1980s. This was a particularly important time in the evolution of punk and independent music, with DC based bands like Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Black Market Baby, the Faith, the Slickee Boys, Void, Government Issue, Marginal Man, Dag Nasty, 9353, Gray Matter, Beefeater, Scream, Rites of Spring, Fugazi, Shudder to Think, Nation of Ulysses, Jawbox and others defining the DC aesthetic. Local record labels like Dischord, Fountain of Youth, Teen Beat, and Simple Machines would become standard-bearers for the DIY revolution.

A lot has been written about the pre-Nirvana period of American punk rock, but there’s never been an examination of DC’s contribution. We’ve spent the last year interviewing dozens of the participants who helped create the local music scene in the 1980s— musicians, photographers, DJs, activists, and writers—to tell the story of one of the most inspiring (and misunderstood) decades in independent music. We’ve also sorted through hundreds of photos, live videos, flyers and zines for inclusion in the film.

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