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HISTORICAL FACTS: Bad brains org - The Untold Story

Slamdancing with John Belushi, supporting Guns N' Roses, duetting with Bruce Springsteen, and entertaining Elton John: the fabulous adventures of one of America's greatest and most under-rated cult artists

From DIY punk to major label almost-stardom, from supporting Kiss and Green Day to being honoured by (and making friends with) Bruce Springsteen, Jesse Malin's career has been a wild ride

Louder

"People falling on top of each other, beer flying everywhere, somebody jumped off the balcony. I get kicked, I fall to the ground, someone picks me up. It was beautiful chaos." Ho99o9 vocalist Yeti Bones picks the albums that changed his life

From the "black metal version of hip hop", to original shock rocker Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Sepultura and the Mr. Bungle track that "gets him horny" these are Yeti Bones' all-time favourites

Metal Hammer

“It was a strange time. We didn’t have a manager and the base of the band had fallen out”: How Sepultura came back to life with Choke

After losing Max Cavalera, Sepultura found a new singer in the unlikeliest of places. This is the story of the song that brought Derrick Green to the dance.

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"I did the entire record in a wheelchair; it was brutally painful.” How a stagediving accident, massive hospital bills and the grunge explosion turned a bunch of "dirtbag punks" into Metallica-approved stoner metal icons

A broken femur caused a massive perspective shift for former hardcore/thrashers Corrosion Of Conformity

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“I played a 5-string with Lauryn Hill, but it didn’t feel like a real bass”: Raised on R&B, schooled by fusion, and empowered by punk rock, Bad Brains bassist Darryl Jenifer remains a 4-string purist

The bass powerhouse behind Washington DC’s Bad Brains pioneered a style that changed the history of punk

Guitar World

Anger is an energy! Stars and writers on the songs that define punk spirit

As Patti Smith’s debut single turns 50, punk musicians and music writers pick the songs that define the genre’s resistance, rebellion and refusal

The Guardian - UK

"I had a swastika t-shirt thinking I was Sid Vicious!" The chaotic rise, fall and rise (again) of iconic rasta-punks Bad Brains

Bad Brains were radical, explosive, controversial and an influence on everyone from Slayer to Foo Fighters and Fever 333

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Go hard or go home: why is hardcore punk enjoying a renaissance?

The success of Manchester’s Outbreak festival shows the appetite for the genre isn’t just healthy, it’s on the rise. Its organisers discuss the scene’s evolution, its fragility, and its (very loud) future

The Guardian - UK

The 100 songs that changed metal

From founding fathers like Black Sabbath, Rainbow and Judas Priest to metal's modern leaders such as Ghost, Sleep Token and Spiritbox, these are the songs that have defined a genre

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"Minor Threat were like The Beatles. I saw Ian MacKaye write Straight Edge on his mother's piano": Henry Rollins on Black Flag, Minor Threat, The Stooges, Green Day, Beyoncé and the meaning of punk

Former SOA, Black Flag, Rollins Band frontman Henry Rollins knows a thing or three about punk rock, so pay attention please

Metal Hammer

The rockers putting their Blackness at the fore of hardcore and punk

A growing movement of artists are embracing the music genre’s Black cultural roots

The Guardian - US

"We have asked WWBBD? (What would Bad Brains do?) many times": Dave Grohl has recorded a Bad Brains cover with Anthrax's Scott Ian and Charlie Benante for a seven inch Record Store Day single

G.B.I.'s cover of The Regulator will be released on Record Store Day to raise money for Bad Brains' frontman HR's healthcare

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“Prince liked the band. He would come see us. He would mysteriously appear and disappear, which always made me mad – ‘Damn it!’” How Vernon Reid’s expressionist shredding juiced Living Colour and won fans in Prince and the Rolling Stones

From Vivid to Time’s Up to Stain, Vernon Reid’s radical solos and effects experimentalism set Living Colour apart from every other guitar band in the grunge era

Guitar World

The Story Behind The Song: Corrosion Of Conformity’s Vote With A Bullet

Pepper Keenan’s furious call-to-arms was the song that transformed Corrosion Of Conformity from hardcore bruisers into stoner metal revolutionaries

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A beginner's guide to hardcore in five essential albums

Over four decades since its birth, hardcore punk remains in rude health. From Black Flag to Turnstile, here are the albums that have defined it

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s no surprise I gravitated to punk’: the military brats who found a home in hardcore

For many army brats, hardcore punk has provided the stability and community they so craved growing up. Members of Minutemen, Fiddlehead and Entry reflect on the military backgrounds that led them into the scene

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