Reagan Youth With Stressbomb April 25, 2011

Reagan Youth are a legendary anarcho-punk band from NYC. Rage Against the Machine, The Beastie Boys, Rancid and NOFX have cited them as influences. Singer Dave Insurgent, after losing his mother in a car accident and a month later his girlfriend to notorious NYC serial killer Joel Rifkin, committed suicide in 1993. To pay homage to the band, Reagan Youth's song "Degenerated" was featured prominently in the 1994 movie Airheads as the song The Lone Rangers(Adam Sandler, Brandon Frasier, Steve Buscemi) performed constantly throughout and the plot centered around them holding a radio station hostage unless the song was played on the radio. Reagan Youth got their start in 1980 while founding members Dave Rubinstein -- later known as Dave Insurgent -- and Paul Bakija, aka Paul Cripple, were in high school. Soon after their formation, the band started playing punk clubs around Manhattan; they even managed to enlist one of their high school professors as a roadie. Local shows quickly turned into national tours and Reagan Youth found themselves sharing bills with the likes of the Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, Adolescents, Circle Jerks, Minor Threat, The Misfits and most of the other major punk bands of that time. Their music reflected their name -- ironic, bratty, and opinionated.

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