Punk Core Records is an inactive record label

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 founded in 1989 by Dave Amcher, alias Dave Punk Core. The label is based on Long Island

Long Island

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, New York

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Punk Core originally started out a punk zine/distro in the late 80's, but became a record label in the mid 90's. Punk Core is often credited for helping to revive street punk

Street punk

Street punk is a working class-based genre of punk rock which took shape in the early 1980s, partly as a rebellion against the perceived artistic pretensions of the first wave of British punk. Street punk emerged from the Oi! style, performed by bands such as Sham 69, Angelic Upstarts, Cockney...

, a genre that had flourished in early 80's Britain but had disappeared by the end of the decade.

In 2006, Punk Core Records released the compilation DVD, Pure Punk Rock. The DVD was directed by punk filmmaker Lewis Smithingham, and featured live performances from all of the bands on the label. The label is inactive, the last new release having been March 11, 2008

Bands

• Action
• A Global Threat
  A Global Threat
  A Global Threat was an American street punk band, formed in Bangor, ME in 1997. They released four full-length LPs as well as many 7" EPs and have toured extensively throughout the United States.- History 1997–2000 :...
  
  
• Blood or Whiskey
  Blood or Whiskey
  Blood or Whiskey is an Irish punk/folk band from Leixlip, County Kildare, Republic of Ireland.The band was formed in September 1993 taking strong influence from Shane MacGowan, as well as The Pogues and The Clash...
  
  
• Career Soldiers
  Career Soldiers (band)
  Career Soldiers was a street punk band based in San Diego. The band have toured America and Canada with bands like The Casualties, Lower Class Brats, Monster Squad, Clit 45, U.K...
  
  
• The Casualties
  The Casualties
  The Casualties are an American street punk band from New York City, New York, formed in 1990.-Biography:The Casualties members aimed to return to what they viewed as the "golden era" of street punk, embodied by bands such as The Exploited, Charged GBH , which they believed had disappeared by...
  
  
• Clit 45
  Clit 45
  Clit 45 was a Streetpunk/Hardcore-band from Long Beach, California that formed in 1996. The band played traditional, fast punk, influenced by The Adolescents, Poison Idea and Bad Religion. Their second and third albums were published by BYO Records and distributed by Cargo Records in Europe...
  
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• Chaotic Dischord
  Chaotic Dischord
  Chaotic Dischord were a punk rock band from Bristol, England, formed by members of Vice Squad and their road crew in 1981. The band also recorded a one-off EP under the name Sex Aids.-History:...
  
  
• Cheap Sex
  Cheap Sex
  Cheap Sex was an American street punk band formed in December 2002, based in San Diego, California. Besides releasing three albums, the band participated in some compilations, including the Pure Punk Rock DVD, released by Punk Core Records, also featuring Action, The Casualties, Blood or Whiskey,...
  
  
• Cropknox
• Damage Case
• Defiance
  Defiance (punk band)
  Defiance are an anarcho street punk band from Portland, Oregon formed in 1993. Their discography includes five E.P.s, four full-lengths, and one album of out of print and rare songs...
  
  
• The Devotchkas
  The Devotchkas
  The Devotchkas were a four-piece American street punk band from Long Island, NY. Their name was derived from the popular film and novel A Clockwork Orange. Devotchka in Nadsat means "girl", which is itself derived from the Russian word of the same meaning.An all-girl group, the band was formed by...
  
  
• Fists In The System
• Funeral Dress
  Funeral Dress
  Funeral Dress is a street punk band from Belgium who formed in 1985. Their big hits include "I'm in Love with Oi", "Free Beer for the Punx", "Party Political Bullshit", "Party On", "Freedom and Liberty", "Belgium's Burning". The band toured the US several times and is planning a tour in Russia in...
  
  
• The Havoc
• Instant Agony (Not My Religion EP)
• Lower Class Brats
  Lower Class Brats
  Lower Class Brats are a punk rock band founded in Austin, Texas in January 1995. They describe their sound as high energy "Rock and Roll Street Noize." They have released a number of recordings including twelve 7" singles, two 12" singles, four full-length albums and one live album...
  
  
• Monster Squad
  Monster Squad (band)
  Monster Squad is an American street punk band, formed in Vacaville, California in 1997. The band has released two full length albums, Strength Through Pain with Charged Records in 2004, and Fire the Faith, released by Punk Core Records, as well as three split albums and one EP.In 2008, the band...
  
  
• The Messengers
• Oxblood
• Paxton Boys
• Self Destruct (Violent Affair EP, the band featured members of The Unseen and A Global Threat)
• SS-Kaliert
  SS-Kaliert
  SS-Kaliert are a German hardcore street punk band, they had been mistaken as a Neo Nazi group as the name has the "SS" as in the Nazi SS. Originally, the band name was "Es Eskaliert" which means “it escalates”, the band decided to replace it with the actual SS-Kaliert name because it was more...
  
  
• The Scarred
  The Scarred
  The Scarred are a punk rock band from Anaheim, California formed in 2003, on the East Coast-based label Jailhouse records. In the punk rock scene, they are one of the only old school punk bands active from Anaheim, and known for bridging the sound between 70s Punk rock, soul, and classic rock and...
  
  
• Total Chaos
  Total Chaos (band)
  Total Chaos is an American street punk band from Pomona Valley, California, formed in 1989. Lead vocalist Rob Chaos is also co-owner of SOS Records with Ezzat Soliman, owner of the Showcase Theater, having released albums by classic Punk and Oi! bands like The Exploited, Vice Squad, Sham 69,...
  
  
• The Unseen (The Complete Singles Collection 1994–2000)
• The Varukers
  The Varukers
  The Varukers are a UK D-beat band formed in 1979 by vocalist Anthony "Rat" Martin, which produced its most influential recordings in the early 1980s. The band are one of the first to play in the musical style of the hardcore punk band Discharge, known as D-beat...
  
  
• The Virus
  The Virus
  The Virus was a street punk band from Philadelphia, United States. Now defunct, their former singer Mike Virus went on to perform in the band Cheap Sex...
  
  
• The Warning