When COVID shut down venues in 2020, Los Angeles punk band Dead City Punx took their shows to the people—outside, under freeway overpasses, up the coast, to the desert and in otherwise abandoned spaces. Starting with their explosive breakout performance in Lafayette Park that drew nearly 5,000 fans while under fire from LAPD rubber bullets, this group of graffiti writers/musicians became LA’s most notorious DIY act.

Born from stolen equipment and street life connections, the band—Meka, Grumpy, Mike, and Adrian—built stages for their shows from shoplifted wood, used social media as their “bat signal,” and turned every performance into a crime scene complete with graffiti backdrops, bonfires, and police helicopters.

Through fan-filmed concert footage and exclusive interviews, Dead City captures how four outcasts from society’s margins ignited a pandemic-era music movement that challenged definitions of public space, rebellion, and the right to assemble. BEYOND THE STREETS presents the story of Dead City—raw, unfiltered and as real as their shows.