The $hape of Art to Come…
In a year where noise is currency and silence is complicity, the punk rock community finds itself at a crossroads. A flame long smoldering beneath the stage lights has burst into something much harder to ignore — and the timing couldn’t be more crucial. From Punk in the Park’s political fallout to billion-dollar war drones funded by streaming royalties, and now a gutted public media system left reeling from congressional cuts, the question punk fans, musicians, journalists, and citizens must now ask isn’t if we’ve been complicit, but how long we’ve ignored it — and what we do next. I’ll begin with a discovery. Brandon Alan…