DCxPC Live Presents: Scene Support
DCxPC Live Presents: Scene Support
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This biweekly podcast, hosted by Scott Pasch, spotlights the unsung heroes who support the bands—from recording engineers and sound techs to photographers, zine creators, and DIY record labels who keep punk, hardcore, metal, and ska alive.
Scott owns and operates DCxPC Live, a DIY label specializing in limited-run vinyl releases of live hardcore, punk, ska and metal shows. Scott also brings three decades of experience playing drums hardcore punk bands across the DC, Florida, and New York scenes where he also booked and promoted shows. Join him as he talks with those who support the scene.
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Focuses on the contributions of unsung heroes in the music industry, including recording engineers, sound technicians, and DIY labels, with episodes featuring discussions on running a punk label and insights from iconic studio engineers.
This biweekly podcast, hosted by Scott Pasch, spotlights the unsung heroes who support the bands—from recording engineers and sound techs to photographers, zine creators, and DIY record labels who keep punk, hardcore, metal, and ska alive.
Scott owns and operates DCxPC Live, a DIY label specializing in limited-run vinyl releases of live hardcore, punk, ska and metal shows. Scott also brings three decades of experience playing drums hardcore punk bands across the DC, Florida, and New York scenes where he also booked and promoted shows. Join him as he talks with those who support the scene.
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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