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Youth crew is a sub-genre of hardcore punk that was most popular from approximately 1986 to 1990, primarily in New York City and, to a lesser degree, Los Angeles. The sound was largely defined by a handful of highly-influential Revelation Records releases, including Youth of Today, Gorilla Biscuits, Bold and Side By Side, all of which brought a more metallic sound to hardcore punk than previous bands. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... 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. ... Hardcore punk, now commonly known as hardcore, is a subgenre of punk rock that originated in North America in the late 1970s. ... The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ... North America North America is a continent[1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ... 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Youth of Today was a straight edge hardcore band from New York City. ... Gorilla Biscuits are a New York straight edge hardcore punk band on Revelation Records, consisting of Anthony Civarelli, Walter Schreifels, Arthur Smilios, Alex Brown and Luke Abbey. ... Bold was a late 80s hardcore band from upstate New York, which along with bands like Youth Of Today and Side By Side were a part of the Youth Crew, and a major influence in the late 80s straight edge hardcore scene. ... Side By Side was an American hardcore punk band on Revelation Records. ... Heavy metal redirects here. ...

Youth Crew Fashion

Youth Crew hardcore is also known for a certain fashion sense that made it stand apart from the punk scene even more. The Youth Crew "look", as seen in the wardrobe of seminal straight edge bands such as Chain of Strength and Youth of Today was more reminiscent of what one would expect a fraternity member or stereotypical "preppy" person to look like than someone involved with punk rock. Crew cut hairdos and a clean cut appearance comprised the Youth Crew uniform in what would imagine was an attempt to distance oneself from what early Youth Crew enthusiasts like Ray Cappo perceived at the time to be the nihilistic image of punk. In an interview in 2004's All Ages: Reflections on Straight Edge, Cappo makes reference to the youth crew "look" as being "Tony Hawk meets Beaver Cleaver". Punk rock fanzines of the era such as Maximumrocknroll loved to make fun of this look and commonly characterized all youth crew followers as wearing white hooded sweatshirts and "huge white shoes" (disparaging the tendency for many fans to wear Nike high-top basketball shoes). Some also would bleach the top of their hair. Many were just skinheads who had bands like Warzone, Cro-Mags, and Youth Defense League. Chain of Strength was a late 80s/early 90s hardcore punk band from southern California. ... Youth of Today was a straight edge hardcore band from New York City. ... 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. ... A U.S. Marine sporting a high and tight, crew cut hairstyle A crew cut is a type of haircut in which the hair is cut fairly short. ... Ray Cappo (aka Ray of Today) is a singer with Youth of Today, Shelter, and Better Than A Thousand. ... This article is about the philosophical position. ... Punk fashion is the styles of clothing, hairstyles, cosmetics, jewelry, and body modifications of the punk subculture. ... This article is about the American skateboarder. ... For other uses, see Leave It to Beaver (disambiguation). ... Maximum Rocknroll Issue #1 Maximum Rocknroll (also known as MRR) is a a widely distributed, monthly underground punk rock and punk culture fanzine based in San Francisco, USA. Featuring interviews, columns and reviews from international contributors, Maximum RocknRoll could be thought of as one of the most important presences in... Nike, Inc. ... The high-top is a shoe that extends significantly over the wearers ankle. ... Warzone was a hardcore punk band from New York City. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

The year 1988 is often considered to be the peak of Youth Crew in general and New York Straight Edge Hardcore specifically. The use of the number 88 in Youth Crew Hardcore circles is meant to reference that year in particular, and is absolutely, entirely unrelated to the use of that number by Nazi groups, Youth Defense League had a song called Skinheads '88, their connection to the National Socialism Movement and Nazism is debatable. 88 (eighty-eight) is the natural number following 87 and preceding 89. ... Nazism in history Nazi ideology Nazism and race Outside Germany Related subjects Lists Politics Portal         Nazism or National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus), refers primarily to the ideology and practices of the Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers Party, German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) under Adolf Hitler. ...

Youth Crew Revival

1997 saw a revival of the sub-genre with bands like In My Eyes, Ten Yard Fight, Floorpunch and Ray Cappo's Better Than a Thousand. In My Eyes was a straight edge band that spearheaded the 1997 youth crew revival along with Ten Yard Fight and Floorpunch. ... Ten Yard Fight is a straight edge, football based,old school hardcore from Boston, Massachusetts. ... Better Than A Thousand was a hardcore band with former Youth of Today singer Ray Cappo. ...

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