Not Vic and TJ, at least not this time. American Hardcore...the film.

I caught this at the Valley Art Theater in Tempe, it's a great video history of the early hardcore movement in Orange Co. and L.A. Covers a lot of those great loud groups from 1981 and 1982 who took the loud guitar from metal, the speed from punk, and threw out the shitty glam and new wave crap. My listening habits still tend toward the West Coast: Black Flag, Channel 3, Minutemen, but the film covers the scene nationwide: Minor Threat, Bad Brains, COC, lots of great stuff. The shit was loud, fast, aggressive, and mean, and this film is full of it. Even if they did have to interview Black Flag throat H.R..

And how ironic that the Valley Art is down the street from Long Wong's bar, where the Meat Puppets sold out to cash in on the Gin Blossoms' gravy train.

www.americanhardcoremovie.com

A decent discography of early 1980's hardcore and punk.

for your smut: www.americanhardcore.com...the Mickey Avalon trailer is now available in *.wmv formet.