East bay hardcore punk

There would be some avant-garde artist that would come up and make this Yoko Ono type of noise. And then there was the Church of Frank Moore, which was this quadriplegic guy in a wheelchair, and naked people basically having sex onstage. Now showing at select theaters nationwide , the two-and-a-half—hour film features narration by punk godfather Iggy Pop, animation directed by Tim Armstrong of Rancid, interviews with such world-famous East Bay scenesters as Green Day, Rancid, Michael Franti and Miranda July — as well as lesser-known but crucial figures like Kamala Parks and Robert Eggplant — and tons of previously unreleased live footage. The project first began to take shape in September , when Armstrong called up Redford in search of particular Green Day live footage from Redford, a presence at the Gilman collective since the mid-Nineties as a musician — he co-founded the long-running folk-punk band Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children McNuggets — and volunteer, was tapped to direct the film precisely because of his long-running involvement in the East Bay scene.

The track is a searing tribute to parting ways, backing their spiky guitars with brilliantly barbed lyrics. The band name is comedy gold, btw. This brief bit of skullcrushamania brings about 10 tracks of what I would consider 90s style Hardcore. The guitar work vacillates between rapid and plodding with equal verve. Rhythm is rock solid, and the vocals, though gritty, are still intelligible.

Since the late s, California has had a thriving regional punk rock movement. Many figures from this earlier scene would play notable roles in the later punk scene. In the mids from to a wave of proto-punk bands emerged from Los Angeles, including the Flyboys and Atomic Kid.

More than of its worshipers had died in a mass suicide-murder which came to be known as the Jonestown massacre , led to their deaths by activist-turned-doomsday cultist Jim Jones. While early punk movements in Los Angeles and New York are lavishly chronicled, the contours and complexity of early San Francisco punk are only now coming into focus. Crime satirized authority in cop drag, and the Nuns riffed on themes of sexual submission.