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How some Philly punk rockers are giving back to the community with the Big Footprints Project

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The Key

Discover Philly's Best Local Music

The Key Studio Sessions: Light Heat

Listen to Welcome to Undertown, the new 7″ from The Dead Milkmen

How some Philly punk rockers are giving back to the community with the Big Footprints Project

RELATED TOPICS

LATEST POSTS

The Week So Far: 12 must-read stories on The Key (incl. Big Footprints Project, Make Music Philly, Light Heat) )

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Release new single "This Life" (playing XPoNential Fest in July and Longwood Gardens in August)

Watch Philly grindcore four-piece Fantasy Panther get bloody in The Barbary bathroom

Listen to Welcome to Undertown, the new 7" from The Dead Milkmen

Everybody who's anybody making music in Philly. Interviews, features, tour diaries, and more—because the only thing bands love more than writing and performing their music is talking about their music.

RELATED TOPICS

LATEST POSTS

The Week So Far: 12 must-read stories on The Key (incl. Big Footprints Project, Make Music Philly, Light Heat) )

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Release new single "This Life" (playing XPoNential Fest in July and Longwood Gardens in August)

Photos: Black Flag goes hard at Union Transfer

Watch Philly grindcore four-piece Fantasy Panther get bloody in The Barbary bathroom

RELATED TOPICS

LATEST POSTS

The Week So Far: 12 must-read stories on The Key (incl. Big Footprints Project, Make Music Philly, Light Heat) )

Watch Local Natives' New Video for "You & I" (playing Electric Factory on 9/28)

Rasputin's Secret Police, Satellite Hearts and more playing Walla Fest (happening at The Centre Theater on 7/6-7/7)

Review: Baths performs at Union Transfer (and loves it)

RELATED TOPICS

LATEST POSTS

The Week So Far: 12 must-read stories on The Key (incl. Big Footprints Project, Make Music Philly, Light Heat) )

Photos: Black Flag goes hard at Union Transfer

Photos: Rogue Wave gets cozy at Union Transfer

Make Music Philly Spotlight: DEF-Bananas

RELATED TOPICS

LATEST POSTS

The Week So Far: 12 must-read stories on The Key (incl. Big Footprints Project, Make Music Philly, Light Heat) )

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Release new single "This Life" (playing XPoNential Fest in July and Longwood Gardens in August)

Watch Philly grindcore four-piece Fantasy Panther get bloody in The Barbary bathroom

Make Music Philly Spotlight: DEF-Bananas

October 1, 2012 | 9:34 AM | By John Vettese

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