From WIKIPEDIA:
Washington, D.C. had the most prolific and blatantly political hardcore punk scene in the United States during the 1980s.The central bands of the scene were Minor Threat and Bad Brains. Other bands that were involved were Teen Idles, S.O.A., The Extorts, Youth Brigade, Government Issue, Marginal Man, Void, The Faith, Scream, The Untouchables, and later such bands as Embrace, Rites of Spring, Three, and Shudder To Think.Almost all of these bands were signed to Dischord Records, run by Ian MacKaye, the frontman for Minor Threat and later Fugazi which became the premier post-hardcore band in the early 1990s.Due to Dischord's popularity and influence, almost no D.C. based bands who were not on Dischord have recieved much attention from outside of the tri-state area. However, these lesser known bands still garner interest from rabid punk rock fans and record collectors from time to time, including Swiz, Touchdown, Initial Reaction, Fury, and Sweetbelly Freakdown.Most bands that existed during the early '80's in Washington lasted only a few years, partially due to the interesting fact that the scene was made up of many children of bureaucrats that were either fired by new administrations or promoted to government positions elsewhere.Today, the surrounding scene (pretty much including anything within the Capital Beltway as "D.C.") is still quite popular locally, having produced such past and present bands as Desperate Measures, For The Living, Battery, Better Than A Thousand, The Aftermath, The Hate Crimes, and more recently, up and comers like In My Way, Set To Explode, and Supreme Commander.
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