St. Louis Skatium

2007 | Best Punk Rock Venue

The place stinks like beer, cigarettes and sex. The intoxicating low glow of black light and boisterously pink and purple fluorescent tubes permeate the sticky air. The music, pumped raw and hard through a bare-bones sound system, is thunderous, though it barely drowns out the sound of the uninhibited crowd -- hundreds of adults and kids who might otherwise have nothing to do with each other. It's constant movement: a living, breathing hub of unadulterated punk rock -- and it's all... More »