The Faith and Void: the glorious Dischord of 1980s harDCore punk

Washington DC was fertile ground for hardcore punk in the 1980s, with Dischord records its main outlet. Craig Finn celebrates the still-vital Faith/Void split LPIn the early 1980s, while Ronald Reagan was perched in the White House, Washington DC was ground zero for US east coast hardcore punk. The DC bands were more political than those in New York and Boston, and more emotional, too. Dischord Records – established in 1980 by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson of Minor Threat, probably the DC scene'...

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