A.R.E. Weapons Street Gang New York Noise Thomas 70's gang film

A.R.E. Weapons "Street Gang" single released in 2001
New York Noise-rock band / Hardcore Electro-rock. This track is a product of the1st incarnation of the band formed in NYC in 1999. Pure, uncut and raw A.R.E. Weapons. Then Thomas Bullock - synthesizer - left the band and formed record label with Eric Duncan (Rub n Tug); and Ryan Noel (aka 'Rylo Nolo') - guitarist overdosed on smack, the band became annoying and contrived.
Street Gang is 3minutes of distorted, crunchy guitar riffs, driving bassline paired with grunting, sassy vocals and lyrics that are both disarmingly profane and tender and sentimental.
They never made a music video for this track. So I did this one using clips from a couple of documentaries of New York gangs in the 1970s.

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• Street Gang
• A.R.E. Weapons
• New York Noise
• Electroclash

[mikintil]

soooo suicide

[cliklab]

@mikintil. Yep. A.R.E. Weapons are often accused of "copying" SUICIDE. A harsh critique of a late 1990's NYC Noise-rock band, who admit the band formed out of the love of the Velvet Underground, the Ramones, the Stooges and Suicide. In 2005 and in 2007, A.R.E. released 2 albums driven by heavy synths and drum machines; clearly tributes to Velvet and Suicide. The boys of A.R.E. Weapons started an ongoing collaboration with one of the their all-time heroes Alan Vega, back in 2008.

[kwaal]

@cliklab The Suicide influence is definite - But I don't find they sound thaaat much alike, it's mostly in the vocals - The music isn't nearly as minimalistic and nihilistic as Suicide. Both are great bands, in my opinion though.

[MrTOMBRODYNYC]

GOOD VIBEZ........

[MrKon14]

nice vid