Dead Kennedys

…Descendents (Manhattan Beach, California), the Dead Kennedys (San Francisco), and D.O.A. (Vancouver). D.O.A.’s album Hardcore 81 (1981) is often cited as the first use—at least in print—of the term hardcore in relation to the genre.

…Seattle, Washington; San Francisco (the Dead Kennedys); and Los Angeles (X and Black Flag). In the late 1970s, however, punk in the United States was eclipsed by disco and went underground in movements such as hardcore, which flourished from the early to mid-1980s and further accelerated punk’s breakneck tempo. A…