Everyone could stand to learn more about punk. And when there's certain documentaries, so good it's like you hit a geyser, it's like you can't afford to miss them - one would be "Blank City," about the New York '70s scene which interviews everyone from Jim Jarmusch to Richard Kern and Lydia Lunch and Thurston Moore and everyone in-between, and another, also available for free on Tubi (with ads! Just turn the sound off, and wait! Ha-ha! ;) ), is the "White Riot" documentary, surprisingly and with overdue-relevance today, is not about a Clash song you'd heard about and been motivated as so many-vaguely-heard-of concise songs might *be*, but a very *clear and direct response* on the part of them and other punkers to a very real, very heeded-and-endorsed (by Eric Clapton! I'm flummoxed ... wasn't he a *blues fan*, or something ... ?? As people say in the *movie* - but ... ) racist ideologue gaining a lot of notoriety at the time - kind of like Steve Bannon, David Duke or what-all. *Crazy*. Even *nowadays*, it happens - post-'50s *Deep South*, as we're seeing. 'Nuff said.

To that catalog of resistance, add this pleasurable and eye-opening film - how could one have known *all* this stuff? - which features, of course, the brothers MacKaye, of Fugazi and Dischord Records et. Al., of whose latest act Hammered Hulls is tearing things up, the best artist of last year aside from Horsegirl.

*We ain't going nowhere*.

*No*.

Younger than Scorsese, younger than Iggy Pop -

*Sorry about the folks*.

*We ain't giving up*.

See this movie!

You'll be glad you did ...

;)

#WINK.

Washington DC was a center of American punk rock in the late 1970's. Punk the Capital explores that era and gives voice to those who were part of it, celebrating musicians such as Bad Brains, Henry Rollins, Ian MacKaye and Jello Biafra.

These bands, the music they created and the influence they still exert are powerful. James June Schneider (co-director, editor), Paul Bishow (co-director) and Sam Lavine (associate producer, co-editor) have assembled a document that feels alive and vital, one that makes you want to experience this movie no matter if you're a punk fan or have never heard this music before.

How was a punk scene created in one of the most conservative cities in the world? How did the young punks work with older hippies to get places for their shows? And how did the sound of DC from 1976 to 1983 change the world of music?

Beyond rare performances by Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Teen Idles, The Slickee Boys, Faith, The Nurses, Enzymes and Chalk Circle, more than a hundred interviews with those who lived this time were conducted.

It all comes together to be a document that music fans should seek out.

Punk the Capital will be released on Blu-ray and DVD in the US for Record Store Day on June 12 via Passion River and in the UK for Record Store Day on July 12 via Wienerworld. A portion of all DVDs and blu rays sold through Dischord Records will go to the DC based charity We Are Family.