Artist Youth Brigade
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Lindsay Hutchens
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Youth Brigade
To give you an idea of how long venerable L.A. punk outfit Youth Brigade has been around—as if the contrast between its name and the graying members wasn’t a big enough clue—the band is most indelibly associated with the label it formed, BYO (Better Youth Organization) Records, which was founded to fight the stereotype that all punk rockers were inherently unwholesome characters. With some breaks in between, the Stern Brothers have been churning out reliable American hardcore rhythms and flying the flag for positive punk for more than 25 years. That reliability shouldn't denote predictability, though. Last year saw the release of Let Them Know, a navel-gazing documentary about the band and its label, and Youth Brigade intends to step back into the fray with its first new album since 1996's To Sell The Truth later this year.
Updated 06/16/2010
