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Bad Brains Announce New Album of Earliest Material Mixed by Ian MacKaye

The six-song release includes a previously unreleased early version of “Pay to Cum” and was remixed by Ian MacKaye.

  • Bad Brains announced Are You Ready: The First Studio Recordings, arriving November 6 via Trust Records, featuring six tracks newly remastered by Ian MacKaye.
  • Recorded in one hour at Arlington, Virginia's Inner Ear Studios in March 1979, the session predates the Black Dots album by three months.
  • The band released the previously unreleased studio version of 'Pay to Cum,' paired with performance footage filmed by Barry Masterson at CBGB on October 24, 1979.
  • Celebrations in Washington include a conversation between Darryl Jenifer and MacKaye at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library on November 5, with an exhibition opening at Lost Origins Gallery November 6.
  • Pioneers of the hardcore sound, the band faces ongoing challenges including health issues for Dr. Know and Paul Hudson, while original singer Sid McCray passed away in 2020.
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In 1979, before becoming a legend of hardcore punk, the band met at Inner Ear Studios for their first musical recording. The result will be released as Are You Ready: The First Studio Recordings The post Bad Brains will release an album with the first studio session of their story appeared first on Rolling Stone in Spanish.

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