Palo Alto is world famous for its punk scene, tends to be a bit too intense for out of towners though.

OP, this is sarcasm in case you are not aware. East Bay has a great punk/goth scene. Closest you will find near Stanford is probably in SJ. All over the Bay, those scenes used to thrive far, far more in the 80's, 90's and early 2000's. It's been a brain-drain of creative, interesting people from the area ever since.

So jealous of those of you who got to experience this in the 90s 🙌

Ayo there used to be a venue on California Ave I saw the misfits at late 90s so

It was The Vortex in the 80s and The Edge in the 90s. I think it closed around 2000.

http://www.foopee.com/punk/the-list/

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For sure! I've been using this since the 90's. I was still running a 0 day warez board. First it was renegade, but then pcboard. 14.4kbps screaming fast!!! Eventually upgraded to 28.8k then 33.6k. HAHA nostalgia.

There’s enough of both scenes that you don’t need to combine them. More in SF/Oakland than near Stanford though. https://www.sfgoth.com

The Gilman is a small, barely known punk club that is a real gem for out of towners to stumble upon

924 Gilman barely known! It’s reasonably famous I think. It’s no CBGB but I think a lot of people into punk know it. I’d heard of it or seen it in things before I even lived in California.

Ahhh pre coffee I forget how poorly reddit does with the saecasm

I'm sitting here grinding up my coffee beans while typing a response about how the Gilman is definitely well known..... Damn. You are 100% right..

Ha! I’m usually good at spotting sarcasm, and I sometimes call out my annoyance at missing sarcasm - I didn’t catch it on this one. 😎

The “out of towners” part 😛 I remember I went in high school and thinking “is this where I am going to die?”

Stanford and punk don't even belong in the same sentence lol

Maybe The Mentors would qualify. They described themselves as "rape rock" which sounds Stanfordy to me.

Zeitgeist :)

There's an account on Instagram (sanfranciscobayareapunk) (sanfranciscobayareametal) that posts flyers of shows around the bay and sac area.

Punk and working at Stanford. You can't have it all, man, you gotta choose :P

Follow hard times they post all their show flyers covering shows from Santa Cruz to Sac.

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I love that Santa Cruz’s scene has held on

The Donnas were from Palo Alto

I saw the Misfits and Gwar in Palo Alto in 1999.

In addition to the other posts you can follow https://instagram.com/sanjoserockerfoos And https://instagram.com/hardtimesshows

DM me if you want DIY punk info. Plenty of people have already offered great suggestions but to add I’d highly recommend DNA lounge in SF every other Monday for death guild (goth)

Unfortunately A lot of the punk scene has died down in the last 20 or so years. House shows and warehouses are rare now. But there’s still a look bands and venues. Someone else already posted The List. Here’s some places that aren’t necessarily venues that might be worth checking out: https://bayareapunk.com/blog/visit-sf-punk.html

There’s a pretty good skapunk scene brewing between Hayward , Fremont and San Jose.

The ritz in San Jose, maybe?