VINNIE STIGMA BIRTHDAY BASH! With Agnostic Front, Antidote, Hammer And The Nails

At the dawn of the '80s, New York City was mired in debt and crime, grappling with one of the most trying periods in its history, yet ironically (or perhaps fittingly), its underground music scene was seething with activity like never before. Still reeling from the violent inception and subsequent implosion of punk rock, hundreds of underprivileged kids living in Manhattan and its outlying boroughs began forming rock groups to rail against the everyday trials, dangers, and prejudices of urban existence. As had been happening in other urban centers (most notably L.A. and Washington, D.C.) equally affected by the lean, recession-laced early years of Reaganomics, New York became a melting pot/hub for a flourishing hardcore scene -- a cultural phenomenon that used punk rock as a platform for politically charged, inherently regional musical catharsis.


Antidote's Thou Shalt Not Kill EP is one of the most sought-after pieces of hardcore history. Released in 1983, there were only 1,000 copies of this influential 7 inch was pressed. One of the original New York Hardcore bands and huge influence on many to follow Antidote reunited in 2008 and on Nov. 13th 2012 Bridge Nine records will be releasing their first new music in over 21 years. In celebration of the release of the new album "No Peace In Our Time" & the screening of "xxx ALL AGES xxx" The Boston Hardcore Film Antidote will be playing their first ever West Coast show.