Articles of Faith were a highly influential Chicago based hardcore punk band (1981-1985) notable for song-writing in a class above most of their contemoraries (and sucessors). The band's later work, the posthumous 'In this life' LP in particular, either founds or foreshadows the emo amd emocore sound. The typical AoF song featured hummable melodies and conspicuous hooks accompanied by lyrics bemoaning the difficulty of finding freedom and fulfillment in a cookie-cutter mass-consumption driven society all delivered at a searing pace. While the band's influence was blunted by being based in Chicago, they maintained close muscial and thematic ties to the Washington DC / Dischord Records scene. Hardcore punk (or hardcore) is a faster and heavier version of Punk Rock usually characterized by short, loud, and often passionate songs with exceptionally fast tempos and chord changes. ... This article deals with the genre of music. ... Main article: Emo Emocore (abbreviated from emotional hardcore) was a term that was used most popularly in the 1980s and 1990s to describe a genre of music that was an offshoot of the hardcore music scene. ... Dischord founders Ian Mackaye and Jeff Nelson Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based record label specializing in D.C.-area independent punk, hardcore, and post-hardcore music. ...
A five piece band. Singer guitarist, Vic Bondi. Bondi, originally a protest singer with decidedly leftist views, went on to form Alloy, Jones Very after AoF's demise. At the time of Aof's original breakup Bondi was working as a History instructor at the University of Massachusetts. Bondi's subsequent day jobs included working on Microsoft's Encarta, he was Managing editor of the Encarta Interactive English Learning edition (Bondi's comments on this fairly ironic form of employment can be found here). HIStory: Past, Present And Future - Book 1 was a double-disc album by Michael Jackson released in 1995. ... The University of Massachusetts (commonly called UMass) is the five-campus public university system of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. ... Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKEx: 4338) is the worlds largest software corporation, with 2005 global annual sales of almost $40 billion USD and about 64,000 employees in 85 countries and regions. ... Microsoft Encarta Logo Encarta is a digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft Corporation. ...
Discography
What We Want Is Free (EP 1982) - Version Sound, re-released on the band's DIY label, Wasteland Records
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