Rock historian and author Richie Unterberger presents a talk and slideshow of "Early San Francisco Punk and New Wave: Anarchy in the USA" in the Koret Auditorium of the Main San Francisco Public Library. The program will feature film clips of more than a dozen Bay Area punk and new wave acts from the mid-1970s through the early 1980s, including the Avengers, Crime, the Residents, the Mutants, the Sleepers, Flipper, and Romeo Void.

Richie Unterberger is the author of numerous rock history books, including volumes on the Beatles, the Who, the Velvet Underground, Bob Marley and 1960s folk-rock. He teaches courses on rock and soul music history at several Bay Area colleges. His newest books are San Francisco: Portrait of a City, published in 2022 by Taschen and the second edition of Bob Marley and the Wailers: the Ultimate Illustrated History, published this year on Motorbooks.

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