“The Shelter was one of my spots,” he tells Metro Times. “When I was coming up, it was all about finding the Black punk shows and Detroit was always a place where there were just a ton of ...

José Luis Escobar Hoyos wanted to show his mother that being a punk wasn’t just about dressing in chains and spikes and listening to loud, accelerated music ...

But before his legal career, he hoped to spark change through his music, as a member of the punk rock band Black Chrome. The genre burst onto the international music scene in the mid-1970s.