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State of Alert (SOA)

In 1979, at age 18, Henry Garfield began his musical career as the lead singer of D.C. hardcore music group Condition of Alert (S.O.A). Garfield, guitarist Michael Hampton, bassist Wendel Blow, and drummer Simon Jacobsen performed their first display in a full time income space and debuted using the fast …

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Youth Brigade

Existing for nine weeks between March and December 1981, Youth Brigade became an essential area of the delivery of the D.C. hardcore picture, alongside fellow music group Minor Threat. Created from your ashes of Teenager Idles — of whom Small Threat’s Ian MacKaye was also an associate — as well …

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The Untouchables

An early Western Coast ska music group which blended R&B addresses with reggae rhythms and recorded with England’s Stiff Reports, the Untouchables debuted in 1984 with Live & Let Dance. The group made up of vocalist Chuck Askerneese, guitarist and vocalist Clyde Grimes, bassist Derek Breakfield, key pad participant Brewster, …

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Artificial Peace

Bassist Rob Moss, guitarist Peter Murray, vocalist Steve Polcari, and drummer Mike Manos were Artificial Tranquility, a Washington, D.C.-structured hardcore punk band that existed through the early ’80s. Their lone recordings — “Outside Searching In,” “Wasteland,” as well as the requisite for the hardcore punk music group self-titled amount — …

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