Happy Anniversary Wormtown 40th!!

It all started 40 years ago today when the Wormtown Punk Punk Press Issue #1 hit the streets. The delivery method was either at a gig at Circes Bar and Grill on Franklin St. or via Paperback Booksmith in the Worcester Centah. It was crude, hand written, 1 sided sheet documenting the burgeoning scene in Worcester, and the name stuck like a piece of ABC gum to the bottom of your shoe. The city hated it, the media shunned it, the kids loved it. Along the next 40 years we had our ups and downs, bands used it as a rallying point to further their careers, the rest of the world took notice and it turned up everywhere from the Boston Globe to Village Voice. It waned slightly in the mid 80's only to come roaring back with a new crop of bands in the 90's. Nowadays, it resides in nostalgia and a brewery that shall not be named. No matter what the powers that be tried to counter with, it has stuck around and is not going away anytime soon. So Happy Birthday Wormtown, go buy yourself a Narragansett Beer, the OFFICIAL beer of Wormtown!