Youth Brigade is an American hardcore punk band formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles , California, in 1980 by the brothers Mark, Adam, and Shawn Stern. The band subsequently founded BYO (Better Youth Organization). Many later punk bands cite Youth Brigade as an influence, including The Nation of Ulysses and The Briefs .
19-2558: The BYO Split Series is a series of albums put out by BYO Records . Each album is a split album which features two bands, with each band doing a cover of the other bands music on the album. The series started in 1999, and so far contains 5 releases. Releases [ edit ] Year Title Features 1999 BYO Split Series Volume I Leatherface and Hot Water Music 1999 BYO Split Series Volume II Swingin' Utters and Youth Brigade 2002 BYO Split Series Volume III NOFX and Rancid 2002 BYO Split Series Volume IV The Bouncing Souls and Anti-Flag 2004 BYO Split Series Volume V Alkaline Trio and One Man Army References [ edit ] ^ Jack Rabid. "Hot Water Music / Leatherface – BYO Split Series, Vol. 1" . AllMusic . Retrieved November 1, 2013 . ^ Jack Rabid. "Swingin' Utters / Youth Brigade – BYO Split Series, Vol. 2" . AllMusic . Retrieved November 1, 2013 . ^ Bradley Torreano. "NOFX / Rancid – BYO Split Series, Vol. 3" . AllMusic . Retrieved November 1, 2013 . ^ Adam Bregman. "The Bouncing Souls / Anti-Flag – BYO Split Series, Vol. 4" . AllMusic . Retrieved November 1, 2013 . ^ Johnny Loftus. "Alkaline Trio / One Man Army – BYO Split Series, Vol. 5" . AllMusic . Retrieved November 1, 2013 . External links [ edit ] BYO Split Series at Discogs v t e BYO Split Series Volumes Vol. I (Hot Water Music / Leatherface) Vol. II (Swingin' Utters / Youth Brigade) Vol. III (NOFX / Rancid) Vol. IV (The Bouncing Souls / Anti-Flag) Vol. V (Alkaline Trio / One Man Army) Artists Hot Water Music Leatherface Swingin' Utters Youth Brigade NOFX Rancid The Bouncing Souls Anti-Flag Alkaline Trio One Man Army Related articles BYO Records discography NOFX discography Rancid discography Anti-Flag discography Alkaline Trio discography Authority control databases [REDACTED] MusicBrainz series Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BYO_Split_Series&oldid=1027430453 " Category : BYO Split Series BYO Records Better Youth Organization Records (BYO)
38-663: A full-length studio album since To Sell the Truth in 1996. The Stern family, consisting of older brothers Shawn (guitar and vocals) and Mark (drums) and younger brother Adam (who would later play bass), moved from Toronto, Canada to Los Angeles in 1970, because their father worked in the film industry. As teenagers, Shawn and Mark were surfers who would skip school to smoke marijuana and attend rock concerts. At 16 and 17, they played in their first band, called Mess, which would play Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix covers at parties. A year later in 1978, they discovered punk rock , and formed
57-550: A quirky prog rock / new wave band called The Extremes, releasing a four-song EP on which Shawn sang with a fake English accent . In the fall of 1979, following a visit by touring British Oi! band Sham 69 , the oldest two Stern brothers moved into a large house in Hollywood , California , near Hollywood High School , and christened it "Skinhead Manor." The large punk house became a meeting place which drew participants from as far away as Huntington Beach and Oxnard . The house
76-491: A record label they started as a fanzine, in 1981, named after their namesake. The zine intended to tackle the issues of police brutality and the negative views towards punks and the punk scene. As of late-2013, the label is defunct. Youth Brigade (band) Youth Brigade have released five studio albums, including one released as The Brigade . Four of their five albums feature the band’s original lineup brothers Mark, Adam, and Shawn Stern. Bassist Bob Gnarly replaced Adam for
95-486: A second version under the same title that kept four tracks from the original version with the rest being newly recorded. This was followed by a 50-date tour of North America during the summer. After having secured a licensing deal for Sound & Fury in England, plans were made to tour Europe in the fall of 1984. Youth Brigade released the three-song EP What Price? in spring 1984 and then played around 50 dates throughout
114-456: Is a defunct Los Angeles, California based independent punk rock record label created by Shawn and Mark Stern, two of the three brothers of the California punk rock band Youth Brigade (the third being Adam Stern who plays bass but does not run BYO). BYO aims to promote punk and other alternative youth cultures in a positive light. BYO released records by 7 Seconds , Agression , and SNFU in
133-537: The Sink With Kalifornija CD collection. Brothers Shawn and Mark continued on as "The Brigade" for about two years after the departure of Adam, giving their first interview under the new moniker in April 1986. In 1989 Mark and Adam, along with younger brother Jamie Stern, founded the swing band Royal Crown Revue along with three other musicians. These three Stern brothers left the band in 1991, shortly before
152-474: The 1980s, as well as Leatherface , Kosher , The Unseen , Throw Rag , Jon Cougar Concentration Camp , Automatic 7 and The Briefs. It also started the BYO Split Series of full-length records shared by bands from other labels, such as Leatherface / Hot Water Music , Swingin' Utters / Youth Brigade , NOFX / Rancid , The Bouncing Souls / Anti-Flag and Alkaline Trio / One Man Army . Before BYO became
171-649: The Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia, Poland, and England as one of the first independent American bands to tour the underground of both Western Europe and Eastern Bloc countries. After this tour, younger brother and band bassist Adam decided to return to art school and finish his degree. The band recorded the last show with Adam in June 1985 at Fenders Ballroom in Long Beach, California and these tracks have been released on Italian and French releases as well as
190-763: The Youth Brigade reunion. Royal Crown Revue continued with new members replacing the departing Stern brothers. In 1991, Mark and Adam met in a bar in Hamburg and expressed a desire to reform Youth Brigade for a tour, to which Shawn agreed. When they returned home in January 1992, they started working on new material and did a show at the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood . The band recorded six songs in July at Westbeach Studios for their Come Again EP. In
209-529: The big BYO extravaganza "Youth Movement '82" at the Hollywood Palladium, where 3500 people showed up for an all Los Angeles bill in early February. In the summer of 1982, after recording three tracks for the first BYO record release Someone Got Their Head Kicked In , Youth Brigade set out in a big yellow school bus on an ambitious 30-city North American tour with fellow hardcore band Social Distortion . The 1984 film , Another State of Mind , chronicled
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#1732858507808228-442: The event. After about 30 shows and several breakdowns they returned home to record their debut LP Sound & Fury with record producer Thom Wilson . A premature version of the LP had rushed together before the tour but pressing was stopped at 800 copies, as the band was not satisfied with the quality of the material or production. Upon returning home, Youth Brigade decided to record
247-407: The house, with homemade wine made onsite, a Coke machine stocked with beer instead of soda, and drugs such as methamphetamine used by some visitors. Youth Brigade recalled in a 1982 interview: ... The manor kind of fell apart because we got too many assholes that didn't give a shit. And there wasn't any money to support the ideas. That's the most important thing — you need capital. So we split,
266-500: The landlady wanted us out, too. Then the place was mysteriously burned down. A club called Godzilla's, located in a former bowling alley in the Sun Valley section of Los Angeles, became the new hub of activity for the Stern brothers, and the venue grew into a mecca for punk rockers from around Southern California. With everyone working at the club, soon a small nest egg of working capital
285-461: The middle of September, Youth Brigade once again packed their bags to tour Europe. The tour covered Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, Czechoslovakia and Poland. More than ten years after their debut, the band recorded Happy Hour at Westbeach Studios and released it March 1994. Soon after they added former Cadillac Tramps, U.S. Bombs , and current Social Distortion guitarist Jonny "2 Bags" Wickersham and recorded
304-508: The next full length To Sell the Truth in April 1996. Produced by Steve Kravac ( Less Than Jake , MXPX ) and mixed by longtime friend Thom Wilson (Offspring, Bouncing Souls). In 1996, the band also contributed to the AIDS benefit album Silencio=Muerte: Red Hot + Latin produced by the Red Hot Organization along with Cuca (band) . In 1998 the band went back in the studio to record
323-408: The recording of 1985’s The Dividing Line , released as The Brigade. Adam returned in 1991 when the band reunited) and contributed to the band's 1992 EP Come Again and their next two albums Happy Hour and To Sell the Truth before leaving once again in 2007. Youth Brigade continue to tour, although other than six tracks on the 1999 album BYO Split Series Volume II , they have not released
342-688: Was a nexus for creative energy around small recording studio onsite. Bands such as the Circle Jerks used Skinhead Manor as a practice space and residents planned to the launch a pirate radio station. Skinhead Manor was also a place where people interested in forming punk bands could meet, and where the Sterns briefly created a swing band called the Swinging Skins Brigade, the precursor to Youth Brigade. The Manor also spawned No Crisis and other bands. The use of drugs and alcohol were also prevalent in
361-423: Was accumulated, and Better Youth Organization (BYO) was launched in 1982 as an umbrella for the promotion of punk rock shows and the production of music. Shawn and Mark Stern also formed their own label, Better Youth Organization , as part of the project. Youth Brigade's first year of existence was as a six-piece but played their first gig as a trio on New Year's Eve 1981 at Godzilla's nightclub. They were part of
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