60 Miles East: Riverside's Underground Punk Rock, Hardcore & Ska Scene, from the late 1980s to early 2000

60 Miles East: Riverside's Underground Punk Rock, Hardcore & Ska Scene, from the late 1980s to early 2000s is a celebration of the Punk, Ska, and Hardcore music scenes in Riverside, California from the late 1980s through the early 2000s. In the 1980s and 90s Riverside was at the outermost edge of suburban sprawl. If you went any further you were well into the wilderness. The 1990s LA and OC underground music scenes were a juggernaut. Riverside was close enough to feel the gravitational pull, but far enough away to not want to make the drive. So they did their own thing. Riverside wore the outsider badge with pride…Before the internet. Before social media. Bands promoted shows with photocopied flyers. Fans found music through friends, record stores, and 'zines. The photography reflects this immediacy—moments caught, not constructed. The distance from LA meant something. Riverside had its own sound, its own venues, its own way of doing things. These photographs document a community that existed in a specific time and place, sixty miles east of the center of everything.