Seattle is up there.

Ah yes! How could I forget. And I'm impressed that you know of Radio Birdman :) Also The Hellcats, another from Sydney.

Unfortunately now Australia has turned into a wad of beach-bummed bogans.

They are certainly not Punk but I really like The Cat Empire too but I am digressing..

Not Indianapolis, I know that much.

I am digressing too but, before they had any records I saw The Cat Empire play at a little nightclub in Melbourne called The Night Cat back in 2002! Really fun group. Don't listen to them much anymore though now. Anyway, back on topic....

Damn. I am a little jealous. I have heard that they are good live.

New England area has a decent punk/hardcore seen.

London

New York

Sure its been covered but the 1970s Lower East Side in NYC - Richard Hell & The Voidoids, The Cramps, New York Dolls, Patti Smith, Television, Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers, The Ramones, Talking Heads.

When I think of say London or LA, I think of two or three great bands and lots of third-rate copycatism going on... that's something you can never accuse the folks at CB's of. Punk shouldn't be a strict code - the whole point is illustrated by the Bowery bunch.

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