Al Barile, guitarist with pioneering hardcore band SSD, dies at 63
Al Barile, who played guitar in the influential Boston hardcore band SS Decontrol — a linchpin of the drink-and-drug-shunning straight-edge scene of the early 1980s that also encompassed Washington’s Minor Threat — died Sunday at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He was 63. His death was announced on Instagram by his wife, Nancy Barile, who … Read more