Red Brigade (b. 1979)- seminal Inland Empire punks with the closest thing to a hit single ("Radio Moscow") that the IE punk scene has ever produced - born in the heat of a Southern California summer, raised on a diet of early punk rock, 60’s garage phsycedelia and gritty street smarts, Red Brigade / Kent State blasted it's way through four years of near obscure infamy, recording the legendary “lost†album for Posh Boy and playing just about everywhere the west coast punk scene had to offer (and venues other bands wouldn’t touch, like behind prison walls for inmates of CIW)
A much needed name change in 1982 to Kent State showed the band growing out of hardcore roots and welding mature musical muscle with sonic power, featuring socially conscious and personally ominous songs with a heavy psychedelic underbelly. Sinister and ferocious in it’s live delivery, Kent State could elegantly pummel the life right out of you.September of 1983 saw the band crash and burn in the fires of that age old adage, “musical differencesâ€. The decision came, sadly, at the peak of a truly original, combined creative process. Various members went their separate ways over the years, then, in 1999, the surviving members reunited as “Red State†for a series of one-off shows and the taping of a public access television program spotlighting punk rock in the Inland Empire. A well received show celebrating the Doctor Strange Records re-issue of the lo-fi, DIY punk rock classic “Noise from Nowhere†at The Showcase Theater in 2002 brought Kent State out of the shadows for a whole new generation of fans, hungry for the slam & sweat of one of the Inland Empire’s first ever punk rock bands.Kent State.
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