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‘Turn it Around: The Story of East Bay Punk’ released in select theaters


Ever wondered what it’d be like to go back to the inception of the East Bay punk scene that gave rise to icons Green Day, Operation Ivy, Rancid, and AFI? Now, you can with the new documentary Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk. Directed by Corbett Redford, produced by Green Day, and narrated by the Godfather of Punk and The Stooges singer Iggy Pop, this two-and-a-half hour doc focuses on the Bay Area’s punk scene over the past 30 years, including Berkeley’s iconic underground punk hub, 924 Gillman Street.

Countless musicians, from Metallica, Neurosis, Bad Religion, Guns N’ Roses, The Dead Kennedys, The Offspring, and Primus, lend their observations to the film. It will also include curated clips from over 500 hours of concert footage. Consequence of Sound shares Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong’s feelings about the project:

Turn It Around gave us the opportunity to tell the story of the East Bay punk rock scene, a scene that’s a sacred thing to me, Mike and Tré and to a lot of others who were there at the founding and who helped to shape the genre. We’re proud to bring the history of this movement to the world and hope the film inspires people to create their own music and to build an artistic community…

Everything’s so different, but I think there are wonderful bands in the East Bay right now and many incredible volunteers at Gilman. The scene is still alive. Anybody who tells you that punk is dead is wrong. They’re just not looking for it. I want you to be involved in punk; you have to search it out.

Turn It Around explores the loud and intense philosophy and evolution of punk rock in Northern California, as told by the punk pioneers themselves. This rock doc. which took three years to film, will finally be released in select theaters on Friday, June 2nd.

Green Day is currently on the road for the Radio Revolution tour and will make an appearance at the Oakland Coliseum on August 5th.

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