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Government Issue

Among the longest-lived rings over the Washington, D.C., hardcore picture, Government Concern (or G.We. for brief) transported the torch for traditional hardcore punk on the early information, but advanced into something even more adventurous with the addition of bits of steel, new influx pop, and psychedelia. Frontman John Stabb (blessed …

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Dag Nasty

Dag Nasty kept roaring D.C.-styled hardcore alive through the mid-’80s. Even though group was even more available and melodic than Small Threat, it by no means dropped its bracing, blistering advantage. Formed by previous Small Threat and Meatmen guitarist Brian Baker and ex-DYS vocalist Dave Smalley, Dag Nasty documented their …

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Minor Threat

Small Risk was the definitive Washington, D.C., hardcore punk music group, setting the design for the straight-edge punk motion of the first ’80s. Led by vocalist Ian MacKaye, the music group was staunchly unbiased and fiercely sober. Through their music, the group turned down alcohol and drugs, espoused anti-establishment politics, …

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Bad Religion

Out out of all the Southern Californian hardcore punk rings of the first ’80s, Poor Religion stayed across the longest. For over ten years, they maintained their underground reliability without turning out some indistinguishable records that sound exactly the same. Rather, the music group refined its strike, adding inflections of …

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