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Although Greg Ginn’s record label SST was, in early stages, from the angry, overamped guitar rant of SoCal hardcore (a few of which came thanks to Ginn’s very own band Dark Flag), SST was also recording bands that pushed the limits of hardcore. Rings just like the Minutemen, General Congress …

Mixing the punk noises from the SST label (Black colored Flag, Minutemen) with those of ’70s hard rock and roll sludgemeisters, SWA debuted in 1985 together with your Future (WHEN YOU HAVE One). Led by previous Dark Flag bassist Chuck Dukowski and vocalist Merrill Ward, the group released Sex Dr. …

Fueled by “rejection, food, coffee, girls, angling and food,” the Descendents sprang up through the halcyon days of the LA punk scene; fusing the blind trend of hardcore with an unexpectedly wry, self-deprecating wit and a solid melodic sensibility that arranged them distinctly aside from their Western Coastline brethren, they …

Formed through the ashes of Sin 34, Coated Willie debuted on SST using the label’s brand feeling of adolescent humor, though linked more to straight-ahead rock and roll than punk or hardcore. Guitarist Vic Makauskas, bassist Phil Newman, and drummer Dave Markey shaped in LA in the first ’80s, released …