Episode Description
On this episode of DCxPC Live Presents: Scene Support, Scott sits down with Antonio Rodriguez, an interdisciplinary artist, programmer, community organizer, and longtime DIY punk participant whose work centers POC and LGBTQ+ voices in underground culture.
Antonio talks about coming up through the San Antonio punk and metal scenes, booking early house shows, learning through mistakes, and the community power of DIY spaces. The conversation moves from punk houses and show logistics to Punk Island, South by Southwest, zines, archiving, file sharing, folk traditions, and the many ways punk exists beyond just music.
It’s a wide-ranging conversation about scene work, cultural memory, making space for others, and why the behind-the-scenes labor of punk matters just as much as what happens on stage.
In this episode:
00:17 – Welcome to Scene Support
03:26 – Antonio’s San Antonio punk roots
05:03 – Discovering DIY punk houses
14:05 – Advice for running a first house show
20:18 – Moving to NYC, Punks of Color, and DIY collaboration
23:15 – What Punk Island is and how Antonio got involved
27:49 – Working South by Southwest as a stage manager
41:56 – Punk as more than music
45:04 – Punk as an electric folk art form
56:16 – Bandcamp, free downloads, and file sharing
1:04:18 – Archiving flyers, zines, and scene history
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Executive producer: Trev Allen - Struggling Artist Record Club
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