Southern Records is an important record label closely associated with Dischord Records. It is based in London & Chicago. Many of the items on the list of bands on Southern Records can be found on the list of bands on Dischord Records. 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. ...
This label can be seen as an outgrowth of Dischord Records' local Wahington, DC origins. In its nomenclature it aspires to a punk rock/emo geocultural coverage of the southern United States. Washington DC is an historical entrepot for those leaving the US South due to problems of racialism. In addition the new label constitutes a commensurately expanded creative space for the talent at Dischord in terms of artistic maturation. In other words, it represents a 'second generation' of musical management and product generation for the ground-breaking personnel of Dischord who helped found the artistic musical movement called punk rock in the late 1970s at Dischord with bands such as Teen Idles, Minor Threat, Void and many others. Southern Records is accessible online. Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Emo (an abbreviation of emotionally-driven Hardcore punk or just emotional-hardcore) is a term now broadly used to describe almost any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that expresses emotions beyond traditional punks limited emotional palette of alienation and rage. ... The Teen Idles were a hardcore punk band that existed only for about fourteen months. ... Minor Threat were a short-lived hardcore punk band from Washington DC. They have been hugely influential: Critics have called them and their work iconic, [1] and noted their groundbreaking music has held up better than most of their contemporaries. ... Void can refer to: The absence of matter, a vacuum. ...
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