
Scream and Soulside
The following description was submitted by the event organizer.
Scream is an American hardcore punk band from Washington, DC, formed in 1979 within the vanguard of the Washington, DC hardcore explosion. Known for their incendiary live performances — an urgent mix of punk and rock-and-roll swagger — the original lineup is vocalist Pete Stahl, guitarist Franz Stahl, bassist Enoch “Skeeter” Thompson, and drummer Kent Stacks.
Soulside formed in Washington, DC, in 1985, split up in 1989, then reformed in 2014 and has continued playing and writing music since then. After releasing their debut album on Sammich/Dischord, they recorded Trigger (Dischord, 1988) and Hot Bodi-Gram (Dischord, 1989), which were combined on the Soon Come Happy CD in 1990. The band toured extensively in the US and Europe during these years, including groundbreaking shows in Poland and East Berlin shortly before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. In 2020, Soulside released a new 7-inch, This Ship, their first release in 30 years, recorded in Prague. Happy”, released in 1990 and re-mastered in 2003.