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Aug 10, 2009
Secret History: 13-Point Program to Destroy America
Our occasional series “Secret History” features profiles of classic D.C. albums as a way of looking back at the District’s contributions to music over time. In this installment, we take a look at the Nation of Ulysses’s 13-Point Program to Destroy America (Dischord, 1991). D.C. post-hardcore of the late ’80s and early ’90s, while undeniably awesome, could be a bit dire. Mapping out an exciting new musical territory informed by the energy of punk,…