The Beastie Boys would officially form that year, initially hanging around the New York punk scene before making a foray into hip-hop. Sonic Youth would also come together in 1981, and that August ...

The Village Voice interviews photographer Glen E. Friedman about his new book on Bad Brains, a band that changed the landscape of punk.

The press release pretty casually describes it as a "magnum opus," in which "every single song [is] a single, every single ...