’Anarchy in the Archives’ puts punk collections on display

Exene Cervenka and John Doe performed together at the Haunt in Ithaca Nov. 4 following a public conversation on campus as part of Punkfest Cornell. John Doe and Exene Cervenka of the Los Angeles punk band X reflected on punk rock and their lives in music Nov. 4 on campus as part of Cornell University Library's Punkfest Cornell. In a conversation in Klarman Hall with music professor Judith Peraino and assistant professor of comparative literature Tom McEnaney, they remembered the diversity of bands and musical subcultures in and around L.A. in the early years of X in the late '70s. 'Everybody was so different sounding from each other,' Cervenka said. 'The Go-Go's didn't sound like X. Everybody was really accepting of anything weird anybody wanted to do.