What are your favorite DC Hardcore Bands?

void weren't from dc doooooooofuses! </pedant> they're the fuckin jam tho.

fyi

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that screen grab makes me smile.
what year is it from?

LOL that screen is from my hometown's (Greenville, South Carolina) local NBC affiliate! My best friend works there.

hahaha

Sadly I have no idea when it's from.

I really should scan in my old Thrillseeker fanzines (82 to 84) (from Bowie, MD not D.C. itself!)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 04:53 (4 years ago) Bookmark

Yes please!

kinda bums me out that all of these Maryland bands get the DC tag. no respect.

Straight up though, the Columbia, Maryland hardcore scene was like playing in a basement with Christmas lights and if the drummer had a nice mom, she'd bake cookies for you.

looks like that other thread curmudgeon found up above is a 404 now, any ideas on how to get to it?

MAJORITY RULE.

x-post-- maybe a moderator can help

Violence over a Glass of Wine

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man i am loving government issue so much today

petition to rename thread "What are your favorite DC Hardcore Bands That Haven't Done Anything Since The Early 90's?"

hahah

Marginal Man reunion show August 20th.

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also i should say i saw gov issue a lil while ago

crotchety ol me liked GI best back when Marc Alberstadt was their drummer and Mitch Parker was on bass

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"While organizing the Dischord archive, we came across the 4-track of Void's first recording session. This was done with Steve Carr at Hit and Run Studios in November '81 and never released (though there has been at least one bootleg made from a cassette of the original mix). The master tape was nowhere to be found, so the tape was remixed by Ian MacKaye and Don Zientara at Inner Ear earlier this year. It was like digging through a treasure chest! Hearing embryonic versions of what would become Void classics as well as songs that didn't make the cut made it clear just how driven this band was to capture their own sound. Sessions 1981-1983 features the entire Hit and Run session along with the first Inner Ear Demo (including the Flex Your Head cuts and the songs that ended up on the Condensed Flesh 7"), two out-takes from their second Inner Ear session, and a couple of live recordings including one that I think must be the last song they ever played."

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Has a single other poster on ILM ever heard Four Walls Falling? Search results yield nada. But these guys, from Richmond, Virginia (my hometown), active from the mid-'80s to the mid-'90s, produced absolutely impeccable shit. Their full-length Food For Worms from '94 is one of, if not THE, finest "post-hardcore" record I've ever heard.

Stumped me on that one

leonardo that?

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bought the CD issue of 'Culture Shock' which I believe is their first album for pennies years ago and found it to be a rly solid example of a kind of HC I don't listen to much. not investigated anything else though

Sam McPheeters just linked this story on Facebook http://www.nola.com/treme-hbo/index.ssf/2012/09/chris_coy_joins_treme_cast_to.html and added:

"For those of you familiar with AC Thompson from his nationally recognized investigative journalism, this is a wild turn of events. For those of us who remember him from early-90’s Richmond hardcore band Device, this raises the professional jealousy bar to dangerous new heights."

those dudes on your radar Clarke?

(according to this old msgboard thread) they were actually from DC but tight-ish w/ 4 Walls Falling so there you are I guess?

Ah, don't remember Device actually... I was born in '80, so those guys were just a little before my time. So were 4 Walls, sort of, but a few of my older pals did see their last show in Richmond in (I think) '94. My 4 Walls love was exclusively through slightly older pals in early HS.

I did find one link online with a few tracks from Food For Worms... Culture Shock is a pretty solid record with some really memorable tracks, but Worms was a real change in direction. Here's the link, plus some words from the blog. I'd start with "Fall of Rome"...

http://coregasm.blogspot.com/2006/03/4-walls-falling-food-for-worms.html

"When I first heard the final CD from 4 Walls Falling my first response was not a favorable one. Maybe it was because it was a lot more slowed down, the songs were pushing the 4-7 minute mark, and overall it was a lot more experimental for the band at the time. It wasn't until a few years later did I pop it on and had the thought of "What the hell was I smoking, this shit is amazing!" I guess it just wasn't the right time beforehand for me to get it. That happens sometimes. Maybe it happened with a lot of people because it didn't seem like this record was really talked about much. It might not have helped that I think this only came out on a European label. Distro in the US was pretty abysmal for this release. I had a hard time picking 3 tracks to feature."