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Basement Show
All ages, no rules, two minutes each.
No stage, no bouncer, no last call — just a flyer stapled to a telephone pole and a PA borrowed from somebody's garage. Hardcore played fast and meant it: three chords and a manifesto before the cops showed up.
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79 tracks
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▸ Did you know
- Hardcore took punk and floored it — most songs clocked under two minutes, so a whole set fit on one side of a cassette.
- The scene built itself: bands booked their own basements and VFW halls, silk-screened their own flyers, and pressed their own 7-inches when no label would.