Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The following is a list of street gangs that formed out of the punk subculture: which includes activist groups or vigilantes, and hardcore skinheads. Pages in category "Punk gangs" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Eddie Nash (April 3, 1929 [2] – August 9, 2014) was an American nightclub owner and restaurateur in Los Angeles, as well as a convicted money launderer and drug dealer. [3] ...
Fight For Freedom (FFF) was a gang that was centered in the San Fernando Valley during the 1980s. Unique to this gang in its locale and time was that the group generally consisted of White Americans from middle class and upper middle class backgrounds. [1] [2] [3] The gang was founded by members of a punk rock band of the same name. [1] [4]
alThis is a list of notable hardcore punk bands. Hardcore punk (commonly shortened to hardcore) is an underground music genre that generally revolves around a thicker and more aggressive tone than earlier punk rock.
The International House of Pancakes across the street from the Western Plaza Shopping Center was a popular hangout for youths in Amarillo, Texas. [2] On Saturday, December 6, 1997, a confrontation occurred at the IHOP involving Dustin Camp, a student and football player for Tascosa High School in Amarillo, and John King, a member of the punk rock community.
In Boston, James began singing for hardcore punk band Wrecking Crew and befriended a multi-racial group of kids from Boston and Brockton, Massachusetts.They formed FSU, which originally stood for 'Fuck Shit Up' however came to be known as 'Friends Stand United' or 'Forever Stand United', for the purpose of purging violent white power skinheads from the Boston hardcore scene. [5]
The Public Enemy No. 1 gang emerged from the hardcore punk scene in Long Beach, California during the 1980s. [1] [8] By the 1990s, however, PEN1's base of operations was in Orange County where the gang began recruiting white suburban adolescents and became involved in methamphetamine trafficking, prostitution and identity theft.
The classic punk rock band's members went on to greater success: Chrissie Hynde later fronted The Pretenders, and Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible and Rat Scabies were subsequently founding members of The Damned. Masters of the Obvious: New Orleans, Louisiana, US: 1981–present: A garage punk/pop punk/indie rock band. Matanza: Rio de Janeiro ...