Movie Description:
Fueled by a ferocious soundtrack, Paul Rachman`s AmericanHardcore gives fans an all access pass to the rise and fall ofthe US punk scene, an explosivemusical and cultural phenomenonthat shaped everything from the grunge movement to theemo and pop/punk music currently riding the charts. Set againstthe conservative 80`s political landscape, American Hardcore chronicles the homegrown hardcore scene that was a swiftkick in the head to corporaterock and mainstream complacency, as disaffected teens adopted the same collective credo-harder, faster, louder.From downtown warehouses to suburbanbedrooms, the scene spread fromcity to city like wildfire, uniting bored, angryoutcasts into an authentic underground revolution.