MTV PRESS TO RELEASE RADIO SILENCE OCTOBER 7 A SELECT VISUAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN HARDCORE MUSIC
Hardcore music existed in the dark ages. This was a pre-internet society, where community and do it yourself ethics thrived. American kids who loved the speed and attitude of the original punk rock but despised the fashion and faux nihilism made a brilliant revision: hardcore. Radio Silence A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music documents an era when musicians and fans booked shows, photographed bands, started record labels, designed album covers and published zines themselves. Authors Nathan Nedorostek and Anthony Pappalardo along with contributions from Sacha Jenkins, Dave Smalley, Jeff Nelson of Minor Threat and photographer Mark Owens offer 224 pages of over 500 images of rare records, t-shirts, fanzines, illustrations and photographs of Black Flag, Big Boys, Rites of Spring, Agnostic Front, the groundbreaking fanzine Ulysses Speaks and much more. MTV Press will release Radio Silence A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music on October 7 2008.
“I mean.. we get shit from the local idiots just because we’re putting out a record, can you believe that?” letter from Kevin Seconds to Ian Mackaye
“Hardcore was a reaction to punk…we made it faster, tougher, harder and better and changed it, morphed it made it unique and American…” Dave Smalley, DYS, Dag Nasty
