On Friday night in a small upstairs room at Appel Commons, Immortal Technique walked on stage with slow, pensive confidence and a T-shirt featuring his own name. He took his place behind the podium and began to speak for the next hour and a half, expounding his views on politics, race and life’s general purpose, followed by a brief performance.

They came from as close as Ithaca and as far as Osaka, Japan to perform. They drew fans that clearly capitalized on the show’s “all ages” policy to people who looked like they had been rocking for decades. However, the one element that brought Saturday night’s show together was a simple term that has been thrown around and redefined for generations: punk.

The four bands on the bill represented an array of styles: pop-punk, gypsy-punk, electro-punk and the self-defined genre of “super-eccentric-pop-punk-cult-band-shonen-knife!” These bands transformed Appel Commons into a hot and sweaty rock club complete with moshing and screaming guitars for Fanclub Collective’s first show of the semester.