Rites of Spring

Musical Group

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The Profile

Washington, D.C. post-hardcore band formed by Guy Picciotto, Eddie Janney, Mike Fellows and Brendan Canty. Active in the mid-1980s and widely cited as a key influence on emocore and post-hardcore.

The S/T compilation pairs the self-titled 1985 album with the 1987 EP All Through a Life. Members Guy Picciotto and Brendan Canty later joined Fugazi. The band released music on the Dischord-associated DC scene and was active only a few years but had a lasting influence.

Rites of Spring were a short-lived but highly influential Washington D.C. band from the mid-1980s. Their S/T compilation pairs the 1985 album with the 1987 EP All Through a Life. The music mixes hardcore intensity with unexpected melody and confessional vocals. Members included Guy Picciotto, Eddie Janney, Mike Fellows and Brendan Canty; Picciotto and Canty later joined Fugazi.

Notable Quotes

❝ Perhaps not the inventors of emocore as described by the know-it-all Piero Scaruffi, it remains a fact that Guy Picciotto's Rites of Spring were certainly among the first to open new and important paths to the dominant hardcore punk of the '80s.