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It's essential for a music movie to have a good soundtrack, and doubly so for a documentary of a specific scene. With that in mind, Rhino Records has assembled a pretty solid compilation of tracks from local '80s hardcore scenes to soundtrack the previously reported forthcoming documentary American Hardcore: The History of American Punk Rock 1980-1986.

Sharing its name with the film, American Hardcore (the soundtrack) compiles 26 tracks onto a 37-minute album and includes contributions from the DC, New York, Boston, SoCal, NorCal, and Pacific Northwest scenes, among others. Big names (Bad Brains, Black Flag, Minor Threat) mingle with smaller ones (Battalion of Saints, Gang Green) on this record, which drops digitally on September 26 and lands in stores on October 10.

The film, which debuted at Sundance this year, opens in New York on September 22 and in Los Angeles and Irvine, California on September 29, with a nationwide release scheduled for October 13.

Tracklist:

01 Black Flag: "Nervous Breakdown"
02 Middle Class: "Out of Vogue"
03 Bad Brains: "Pay to Cum"
04 D.O.A.: "Fucked Up Ronnie"
05 Circle Jerks: "Red Tape"
06 Minor Threat: "Filler"
07 MDC: "I Remember"
08 Untouchables: "Nic Fit"
09 Gang Green: "Kill a Commie"
10 The Freeze: "Boston Not L.A."
11 Jerry's Kids: "Straight Jacket"
12 SS Decontrol: "Boiling Point"
13 Void: "Who Are You?/Time to Die"
14 Scream: "Came Without Warning"
15 Negative Approach: "Friend or Foe"
16 Articles of Faith: "Bad Attitude"
17 Die Kreuzen: "Think for Me"
18 Battalion of Saints: "My Minds Diseased"
19 7 Seconds: "I Hate Sports"
20 Big Boys: "Brickwall"
21 Really Red: "I Was a Teenage Fuckup"
22 Adolescents: "I Hate Children"
23 YDI: "Enemy for Life"
24 D.R.I.: "Runnin' Around"
25 Cro-Mags: "Don't Tread on Me"
26 Flipper: "Ha Ha Ha"