Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIt’s hard to think of a musical genre more difficult to carry off past one’s youth than hardcore punk, which was built to have a short shelf life in almost every way.
And even within that context, many bands who were far inferior to the legendary Bad Brains — who cast a long shadow over the careers of every hardcore band and many hard rock ones, as well as the Beastie Boys — are better known.Why?
For starters, even though the group was one of the first true hardcore bands and arguably the best, they upended that concept from the jump, simply by being four Black dudes from Washington D.C.
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