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How Punk Rock Helped Get Obama Elected and Other Miracles
GROWING PAINS
In the ’80s, West Coast punk got darker and darker. People got hurt. People got addicted. People died. But there was light in the darkness, if you knew where to look.
Shannon Robinson
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Jul. 6 2019
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