Straightedge
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Description of Straightedge
Born out of the song "Straightedge" by 1980s Punk icons Minor Threat, Straight Edge music is aggressive Hardcore Punk. Its songs are quick, deliberate assaults with overtly personal and political lyrics. The primary distinction between Straightedge and Hardcore is in the lyrics and the culture of the scene. The reluctant leader of the Straight Edge movement, Minor Threat's Ian MacKaye (who later jump-started Emo-punk with Fugazi), inspired Straightedge kids -- usually heterosexual white males -- to focus on unity and bodily "purity" by refusing drugs, alcohol, and smoking. The underpinning philosophy of this scene -- which sometimes includes abstinence and pacifism -- in some distant ways overlaps with that of the Hare Krishnas.
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7 Seconds
With their short, fast songs
and uniquely positive
outlook, 7 Seconds helped
define the West Coast
Hardcore scene. One of t...
Earth Crisis
This radical, straight-edge
band's lyrical manifestos are
as confrontational and
inciting as their music.
Frontman Karl Buechner s...
Fugazi
Washington, D.C.'s Fugazi
formed in 1988; they
consistently set new
standards for Punk -- in
music and in business pra...
Minor Threat
In just three years, '80-'83,
D.C.'s Minor Threat laid
down the blueprint for
hardcore DIY punk. The
band's first gig was openi...
Teen Idles
A critically important band
in early Hardcore, the Teen
Idles gave rise to Dischord
Records and later, to Minor
Threat. The Teen Idles fe...
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