Offsite Event: Punk bands perform to celebrate launch of Jack Boulware's punk history Gimme Something Better

Outside of New York and London, California's Bay Area claims the oldest continuous punk-rock scene in the world. Gimme Something Better brings this outrageous and influential punk scene to life, from the notorious final performance of the Sex Pistols, to Jello Biafra's bid for mayor, the rise of Maximum RocknRoll magazine, and the East Bay pop-punk sound that sold millions around the globe. Throngs of punks, including members of the Dead Kennedys, Avengers, Flipper, MDC, Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, and AFI, tell their own stories in this definitive account, from the innovative art-damage of San Francisco's Fab Mab in North Beach, to the still vibrant all-ages DIY ethos of Berkeley's Gilman Street.

Jack Boulware is the author of San Francisco Bizarro, and was a columnist at SF Weekly throughout the 1990s. His writing has appeared in many publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Playboy and Mojo.

Silke Tudor is a San Francisco-born writer who has contributed to The Village Voice, Spin and Tatoo Savage. For ten years she was a columnist and nightlife editor at SF Weekly and produced the annual SF Weekly Music Awards. She currently lives in an anarchist service community on New York's Lower East Side, where she slings soup for the poor.