After more than a decade, Bad Brains, as an entire outfit, released their first studio album of new material, Build a Nation, in the summer of last year. Anxious fans grabbed leaked songs off the band’s Myspace page, uploaded tracks to their iPods, and went to purchase the CD at huge record stores when it finally hit the shelves. The aforementioned modern day music rituals are a far cry from way the fans got a hold of the DIY-style cassette tape that served as Bad Brain’s first album back in the early ’80s. For those who miss the way hardcore kids got their music back when shit was real, Build a Nation has been released as a box set complete with the most “punk” of the music mediums, the 7”. Although the box set doesn’t include what every Bad Brains fan wants: previously unheard music or at least a recording of an insane rant by H.R., but it does come with irie red, yellow, and green vinyl in a box with a sick Lion of Judah on it.
