DARE

About DARE

The Orange County band DARE play a fast, pummeling, passionate form of old-school hardcore. Their riffs have a sense of surf-punk catchiness, but they aren’t into the nasal whininess that so many of us tend to associate with Orange County punk. Instead, DARE are into gang chants and throat-ripping bellows. They’re a straight-edge band, and they’re the type of straight-edge band who will scream about being straight-edge, motherfucker, mid-song. They rule. DARE have been around since 2017, and they released a self-titled EP in 2018. Recently, they’ve come out with their debut album Against All Odds. It’s a hard, immediate, deeply unpretentious record that blasts through 11 songs in 20 minutes.