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Chicago hardcore is the hardcore punk scene of Chicago and its surrounding area.Beginning in the 1980s with post-hardcore bands Naked Raygun, Big Black and the Effigies.By the 1990s, the scene had developed two separate sizable scenes: a straight edge metalcore scene including Arma Angelus and Racetraitor; and a thrashcore scene based on the South Side, including Los Crudos and Charles Bronson.
You Weren't There: A History of Chicago Punk, 1977–1984 is a 2007 documentary film about punk subculture in Chicago from 1977 through 1984. The film was written and directed by Joe Losurdo and Christina Tillman, and profiles the punk bars and local bands that gave rise to the city's punk rock scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s. [1]
What most punk fans recall as the first "punk scene" in Chicago did not rise until the very early 1980s, when clubs like Oz, O’Banion's and C.O.D started to provide venues for live punk. In a 1999 retrospective about the 1985 music year, Chicago Sun-Times music writer Jim Derogatis termed the heyday of The Effigies "the second generation of ...
This is a list of notable hardcore punk bands from Chicago, Illinois and its surrounding areas. 88 Fingers Louie; Arma Angelus [1] Articles of Faith; Bhopal Stiffs; The Bollweevils; Charles Bronson; The Fighters; Harm's Way; Hewhocorrupts; The Killing Tree; Los Crudos; Masters of the Obvious; Pegboy; Racetraitor; Rise Against; Screeching Weasel ...
Fall Out Boy was formed in 2001 in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette, Illinois by friends Pete Wentz and Joe Trohman.Wentz was a "visible fixture" of the relatively small Chicago hardcore punk scene of the late 1990s, performing in various groups including the metalcore band Arma Angelus. [2]
WZRD was a hotbed for local and touring punk, hardcore, and post-punk groups in the 1980s. Steve Bjorklund, an early figure in Chicago's punk scene writes in the liner notes of The Effigies album "Remains Nonviewable":
The Victims represented Chicago on the New Wave scene. The 1980s punk scene eventually gave way to the 1990s alternative rock boom with artists like Local H, Eleventh Dream Day, Ministry, Veruca Salt (the band Seether is named after their song "Seether"), My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Material Issue, Liz Phair, Urge Overkill, LaTour, The ...
Sue Miller of Lounge Ax was the club's booking agent and helped develop the early independent music scene in Chicago by her support of local and touring punk and indie bands of the day. She booked many unknown bands at West End that later became highly influential in the punk, alternative, and indie scenes.