The Proletariat

The Proletariat
The Proletariat's original lineup, left to right: Tom McKnight, Frank Michaels, Peter Bevilacqua, and Richard Brown.
Background information
OriginSoutheastern Massachusetts, United States
Genres
Years active1980–1985, 2016–Present
Labels
Members
  • Richard Brown
  • Peter Bevilacqua
  • Tom McKnight
  • Don Sanders
Past members
  • Frank Michaels
  • Laurel Ann Bowman †
  • Steve Welch
Websiteproletariatband.com

The Proletariat are a punk rock band from Southeastern Massachusetts, whose heyday was during the 1980s, when they were active in the early Boston hardcore scene, sharing the bill with many of the best punk and hardcore punk acts of the time, despite their recorded output having a decidedly non-hardcore aesthetic, the Proletariat show more strongly the musical influences of early British post-punk bands such as Wire and the Gang of Four in their fractured guitar sound and Marxist-themed lyrics.

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