Punk Under The Sun book by Joey Seeman & Chris Potash
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Killer compendium of the Florida Punk / New Wave / Alternative art scene of the 80s... things are pretty wild down there, as you know!
HoZac Books is pleased to announce the impending release of the first book to chronicle the alternative music,
HoZac Books is pleased to announce the impending release of the first book to chronicle the alternative music,
art, and club scenes of a particularly amazing time and place: the 1980s in South Florida. Comprehensive in its
approach, Punk Under the Sun documents the bands, venues, galleries, and scenesters who started and
sustained the groundswell of activity that made Miami and nearby beaches a progressive hotspot, setting the
stage for South Florida to become the international cultural destination it is today.
Authors Joey Seeman and Chris Potash were there, participating in and documenting the first, second, and
subsequent waves of musicians, indie labels, DJs, retail stores, publications, and players who came together
to create a unique cultural moment and movement in South Florida history. This essential document of a powerfully
expressive decade features never-before-seen photographs by Jill Kahn, Debbie Baylis Sunshine, Laurie Alaimo,
and others, plus dozens of fliers, posters, and other souvenirs from that heady time. Punk Under the Sun
includes a discography of 1980s albums and singles, along with an 11-page index that’s a valuable Who’s Who
of people and places that created South Florida’s alternative culture.
HoZac Books is pleased to announce the impending release of the first book to chronicle the alternative music,
art, and club scenes of a particularly amazing time and place: the 1980s in South Florida. Comprehensive in its
approach, Punk Under the Sun documents the bands, venues, galleries, and scenesters who started and
sustained the groundswell of activity that made Miami and nearby beaches a progressive hotspot, setting the
stage for South Florida to become the international cultural destination it is today.
Authors Joey Seeman and Chris Potash were there, participating in and documenting the first, second, and
subsequent waves of musicians, indie labels, DJs, retail stores, publications, and players who came together
to create a unique cultural moment and movement in South Florida history. This essential document of a powerfully
expressive decade features never-before-seen photographs by Jill Kahn, Debbie Baylis Sunshine, Laurie Alaimo,
and others, plus dozens of fliers, posters, and other souvenirs from that heady time. Punk Under the Sun
includes a discography of 1980s albums and singles, along with an 11-page index that’s a valuable Who’s Who
of people and places that created South Florida’s alternative culture.
In the 1970s, Miami Beach was a crumbling pastel paradise, gone to seed since its sun ’n’ fun heyday
in the 1950s. In the 1980s, even as the boarded-up hotels, grindhouse theaters, and grimy streets served as
back-drops for Miami Vice shoots, South Florida—from West Palm to Lauderdale to South Miami—was being
transformed by a relatively small but intensely free-thinking group of cultural pioneers. These DIY musicians,
artists, and dreamers brought with them a ferocious creative energy and breathed new life into once-grand
spaces. Abandoned bars, hotels, and restaurants were transformed into live-music venues, art galleries, and
nightclubs that fostered an original-music scene that rivaled larger ones across the country in talent. Driven by
punk and new wave music, the scene unfolded against a backdrop of racial, economic, and political upheaval
as greater Miami emerged as a truly metropolitan, world-class city.
Bands like Screaming Sneakers, the Cichlids, Tight Squeeze, the Kids, Charlie Pickett & the Eggs,
Critical Mass, the Eat, and the Reactions were on the front lines of the change. There were places
to play dotted along the coast; underground and college radio stations spun their records; people
in the scene created zines and papered poles with photocopied fliers; the mainstream press even
took note and started giving these and other bands column inches. Meanwhile, national and
international punk and new wave bands began making the long road trip down the Florida peninsula
to play at respected venues such as Flynn’s and the Cameo Theater, including the Ramones, Black Flag,
Hüsker Dü, Adrenalin O.D., and Dead Kennedys.
“Musicians in the Florida punk rock/New Wave scene of the 1980s, by sheer collective will, relative
geographic isolation, or maybe the heat, created a truly unique cultural environment. Doing shows there
was like being in a territory distinct from the USA.”
—Henry Rollins
“South Beach in the 1980s was a little like the wild, wild West...There was a very vibrant underground scene
of creatives, and this social and cultural momentum helped pave the way for the gentrification that followed.
It was truly a magical moment in time. There were no rules. The kids were in charge—at least for a while.
And it was bliss.”
—Tara Solomon, writer and former “Queen of the Night” columnist for the Miami Herald
“The 1970s and 1980s in South Florida was a time and a place the music industry ignored. They thought
there was just beaches and retired people. They missed out on a lot of talent.”
—Bruce Witkin, record producer and musician
Joey Seeman is a graphic designer, DJ, and painter. His artwork has been published in SPIN, Art Alternatives,
and Juxtapoz and been shown in galleries in Los Angeles, Dallas, Portland, and the Museum of Contemporary
Art in North Miami. During the burgeoning South Beach art scene of the early 1990s, he collaborated with artist
Tomata du Plenty, lead singer of the seminal Los Angeles punk band the Screamers, staging numerous exhibitions.
He is a Miami native currently living in Dallas, Texas.
Chris Potash wrote about music, film, and art in South Florida for the weekly Wave and daily Miami News from
1986 through 1988. He compiled and edited The Jimi Hendrix Companion: Three Decades of Commentary (1996)
and Reggae, Rasta, Revolution: Jamaican Music from Ska to Dub (1997), both for Schirmer Books. Since then he
has worked as an in-house and freelance book editor, video producer, and marketing professional. He currently
lives near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Featuring nearly 400 images in color and b&w!