With award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 140 stations in North America. This is a rebroadcast of the previous day’s edition.

This show features music inspired by the Punk/New Wave movement that emerged in the late 1970s and early 80s. The early representatives of Punk Rock – bands such as the Sex Pistols, The Clash and Television – made up in energy, anger and originality what they lacked in technical expertise. But the bands that followed them – collectively known by the catch-all term New Wave – were able to harness the artistic abandon of punk to more sophisticated types of songwriting and musicianship. This ‘second generation’ also crossed punk rock with other genres, including ska, folk, progressive, funk and rap. This show focuses primarily on this music, which came of age in the 1980s and 90s, but also on more recent and local music which has been inspired or influenced by Punk and New Wave. The show also features commentary on the history and social context of the Punk/New Wave movement, as well as occasional interviews with local musicians and local music appreciators who have been influenced by this music.