Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (1980)

Dead Kennedys’ debut album is fast, furious, and pissed off. From the first note of Kill the Poor you know you’re listening to something new and exciting. The appeal of the Dead Kennedys is they don’t sound like the other hardcore bands you’ve listened to. …

It took me a long time to get into Bad Religion.  Their sound and lyrical content were not immediately digestible to me as a young Green Day fan in middle school.  It’s shameful, but the truth.  It wasn’t until much later that I dove into the history of punk and …