New podcast explores a forgotten chapter in grunge music history
NPRNew podcast explores a forgotten chapter in grunge music history KUOW's podcast 'Let the Kids Dance,' tells the story of grunge music and a forgotten chapter: the Teen Dance Ordinance. ZWICKEL: The Gorilla Gardens Riot was the opening skirmish in a war between Seattle's music community and establishment forces, a war that waged for 17 years and, in the process, dramatically altered the world-changing music that would soon explode out of the city. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #2: About 10:30 last night, 20 squad cars and dozens of Seattle police officers moved in on the Gorilla Gardens rock club. He didn't know it at the time, but he was now embroiled in a punk rock art project because Guzzo's spiel didn't sit well with David Portnow and his friends in The Dehumanizers.