SCREENING: LET THEM KNOW: THE STORY OF YOUTH BRIGADE + BYO RECORDS
September 17, 2009 
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Big Smash! and War on Music presents
Thursday September 17th at War on Music– 93 Albert St.
9:00pm – $5
Come to the screening and you could WIN two tickets to see YOUTH BRIGADE live at The Pyramid on September 30 – plus a Youth Brigade boxed set (retail value $50)!
By the time the second wave of Los Angeles punk rock began to crest in the early 1980s, most historians had already closed the book. But buy cialis no prescription required things were just starting to get interesting. The music got harder and faster. Politics became integral to canadian pharmacy viagra generic the scene. Police-on-punk violence and massive riots were de rigueur. The concept of ‘D.I.Y.’ transformed from a necessity to a battle cry. And the Better Youth Organization was born.
Founded by two Canadian brothers Shawn and Mark Stern from the influential L.A. punk band Youth Brigade, the BYO was part political movement, part business venture. It was a way to organize punks to take positive action to help sustain their scene and their way of life. The ideals upon which it was founded helped countless bands put on shows, put out records, and otherwise get buy cheapest viagra online their music out to the world. It allowed for the making of the landmark punk documentary ‘Another State of Mind’. And it spawned BYO Records, which stands today as one of the oldest surviving independent punk rock labels in the world. BYO, online pharmacy viagra uk Youth Brigade, and the Stern family are three intertwined entities that comprise a too-often-overlooked chapter in the history of punk. This is that chapter.
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See the film’s trailer HERE!
About the author:
Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).
