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December 22, 2003

Minutemen Documentary Due

Feature film to offer new generation a look at beloved Eighties band

Recordings and Reviews

Ballot Result

In a better world, neither of these albums would exist. D. Boon, the hulking frontman and guitarist of the Minutemen, would not have died in a van accident three days before Christmas 1985, and the trio's surviving rhythm section (bassist Mike Watt and drummer George Hurley) would not have had to fi...

1987 RS: Not Rated

3 Way Tie (For Last)

1985

Double Nickels On The Dime

1984

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Biography

The Minutemen were one of the most adventurous hardcore punk bands, taking the music to places no one expected it could go - into funk, free jazz, even folk. Fiercely independent and to the far left politically, the trailblazing power trio delivered brief, angular blasts of formless music at breakneck speeds, though with a gutsy, unaffected groove.

Mike Watt and D. Boon were childhood friends in...

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