New Rose/SBC Films has announced the release of Something Better Change, a documentary film that tells the story of punk activist turned politician Joe Keithley. His shocking 2018 victory in Burnaby (the seat of Metro Vancouver’s regional government) was a huge win for Keithley and the Green Party—and a natural evolution for the punk rock provocateur. Throughout the 1980s, outfits like Black Flag, D.O.A., Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, and the Circle Jerks helped define the decade’s deafening hardcore punk sound, paving the way for the eventual explosion of punk bands through radio and MTV in the decades to come. While punk rock’s upper echelon may no longer be as culturally seditious as they once were, the genre’s effect on a new generation of activists and aspiring politicians has never be...