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No Values, the biggest punk/hardcore festival in American concert history, took place in Pomona, California, on June 8. Organized by Goldenvoice, now a subsidiary of A.E.G. Worldwide and famously known for promoting the megafest Coachella, the festival celebrated Goldenvoice's punk rock roots. In 1981, Goldenvoice was a D.I.Y. company that booked punk gigs at Southern California venues such as Fender's Ballroom, the Olympic Auditorium, and Perkins Palace.

Punk rock lived its best life at the inaugural Pomona fest (even though the traffic tried to kill it).

From his punk rock beginnings with Black Flag to mixing J Balvin, the sound engineer talks about his history with Goldenvoice and doing sound for Coachella.

When Lucerne Valley went punk: How Desolation Center festivals in the 1980s inspired Coachella, Burning Man Editor's note: This article originally ran in the Palm Springs Desert Sun on Oct. 16, 2019. In the early 1980s, the music and art scenes in Los Angeles thrived. There were no limits, everything was up for grabs and the underground turned out bands opposite of the mainstream. Thought-provoking performance art would have shocked traditional audiences with nihilistic realism of living during the Cold War. Men, women and people of different racial and cultural backgrounds united t...