OK, so I haven’t actually gotten around to doing much of anything here yet. My initial goal was to go through my enormous 7″ collection of records from Florida (and non-florida) bands I acquired at gigs in the 80’s and 90’s when my band was playing with a lot of other Florida bands as well as national touring bands.

Call me a purist, but for me, the Florida bands have always had more heart, originality and true DIY ethic. Maybe it’s a symptom of growing up in South Florida where national touring bands only venture with caution due to the agressive sun-drenched Florida crowds full of surfers, skaters, dopers, moshers, skinheads, fashion punks and whatever else crawls out in the middle of the might to go see shows at some dive. One thing I do know is that Florida bands are always more interesting, even if most of them break up before they ever get an ational exposure.

Currently, I’m up in the Philadelphia area for the summer and my vinyl collection is down in Florida, so I’m going to have to wing this for the moment and rely on the contributions of YOU PEOPLE out there to help out with some information and history about punk bands in Florida from the 1960’s until today.

If you have any information on the following bands (or any other bands not listed here), please either post a comment here on this article or contact us via email at floridap [at] floridapunkrock.com with any links, show memories, flyers, information, pictures, cover scans, mp3’s, video etc… All contributors will receive full credit for whatever they send in, so if you have a website or are in a band yourself, please inclde a url so we can link back to you.

So, Here’s the list of bands FPR is currently seeking any information on:

If you know of any other great Florida bands who aren’t on this list - contact us.