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Punk Rock Fight Club: It’s Real.

Officially, FSU stands for “Friends Stand United.”  Those familiar with the situation call it “F**k Shit Up.”

From Rolling Stone:

FSU formed in Boston in the late Eighties. The Boston hardcore scene had already gained notoriety as a more militant offshoot of the D.C. straight-edge movement, with the band SS Decontrol, started by brawny ex-hockey player AI Barile, leading the charge. SSD and its followers, known as the Boston Crew, became notorious for painting black Xs on their foreheads before New York shows – an X, more typically drawn on the hand, signifies you are straight-edge – and beating up anyone X-free in the pit. As Curtis Casella, founder of the Boston indie label Taang! Records, notes in American Hardcore, “When [straight edge] got filtered up north to Boston, it got a little eviler.”

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One thought on “Punk Rock Fight Club: It’s Real.

  • Any new information? That's not exactly a current article (2007… and what is with all the typos in it? Some sort of cruel Rolling Stone watermarking?)

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