Boston Hardcore

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Boston Hardcore is the name given to the then and now hardcore scene in and around Boston and its sound.

history

The first hardcore bands in Boston were The Freeze , The FU's , Gang Green , Jerry's Kids , Negative FX , Siege and SS Decontrol . Part of the scene was influenced by Washington's straight edge scene. Members of bands like DYS , Negative FX and SS Decontrol formed the "Boston Crew", a hardline - a militant straight-edge group that often attacked punks who consumed alcohol or other drugs . The controversy surrounding this group and their actions sparked a debate about violence in the hardcore scene. In the late 1980s Elgin James became active in the militant faction of the Boston straight-edge scene and one of the co-founders of the group Friends Stand United , which later developed into a street gang . In 1982 Modern Method Records released the compilation album This Is Boston, Not LA , a compilation of tracks by bands from the Boston hardcore scene with songs by The Proletariat , The Freeze, The FU's, Jerry's Kids and Gang Green. Curtis Casellas Taang! Records was another record label that released material from that period.

Musically, Boston Hardcore does not represent a uniform trend. The music of the protagonists of the genre was influenced by such diverse influences as Britpunk, Metalcore , Oi! , Rock music or straight edge. While New York Hardcore is usually associated with a metal- heavy sound, the term "Boston Hardcore" therefore only refers to the origin of the bands assigned to it.

literature

  • Matthias Mader: This is Boston not New York . 3. Edition. IP Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 3-931624-19-6 .
  • Dirk Budde: Take three chords ...: Punk rock and the development to American Hardcore. Karben: CODA-Musikservice + Verl. 1997. [Writings on popular music research. - Karben: CODA, 1996; 2; Zugl .: Hamburg, Univ., FB Kulturgeschichte, Diss., 1995], ISBN 3-00-001409-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.fbi.gov/chicago/press-releases/2009/cg071409.htm FBI - Alleged Founder of Street Gang that Uses Violence to Control Hardcore Punk Rock Music Scene Arrested on Extortion Charge for Shaking Down $ 5,000 from Recording Artist for protection. Fbi.gov 2014-08-20
  2. ↑ Mader, p. 6