Kevin Seconds is an American singer/songwriter/musician. It was while living in Reno, that he founded the highly influential

hardcore punk Hardcore punk (commonly abbreviated to hardcore or hXc) is a punk rock music genre#subtypes, subgenre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s. It is generally faster, harder, and more aggressive than other forms of punk rock. Its roots ...

band 7 Seconds in 1979 with his younger brother Steve Youth."Rancid, Dropkick Murphys playing Avila Beach this summer"
''The Tribune''. Retrieved August 1, 2017.

Straight edge

As with

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, Seconds has had a great deal of influence on the

straight edge Straight edge (sometimes abbreviated as sXe or signified by XXX or simply X) is a subculture of hardcore punk whose adherents refrain from using alcohol, tobacco, and other recreational drugs in reaction to the punk subculture's excesses. Some ...

subculture but has never fully embraced it as a movement. He has been outspoken about his opposition to the more militant aspects of straight edge and does not support it. Seconds continues to maintain a drug/alcohol/smoke-free lifestyle but appears to have no interest in being a spokesman for the straight edge lifestyle. He is

vegetarian Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the Eating, consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, insects as food, insects, and the flesh of any other animal). It may also include abstaining from eating all by-products of animal slau ...

Discography

* 1997 ''Stoudamire'' (Earth/Cargo) * 2001 ''Heaven's Near Wherever You Are'' ( Headhunter) * 2002 ''Matt Skiba & Kevin Seconds'' (Split CD with

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) * 2008 ''Rise Up, Insomniacs!'' ( Asian Man) * 2010 ''Good Luck Buttons'' (Asian Man) * 2012 ''Don't Let Me Lose Ya'' (Asian Man) * 2014 ''Off Stockton'' ( Rise) * 2014 ''New Years Rulin's'' (This Means Something) * 2016 ''Band-Aid On A Bullet Wound'' (Birthday Money)

References

External links

Kevin Seconds Official WebsiteKevin Seconds' Too Many F'n SongsKevin Seconds' Art Webstore
{{DEFAULTSORT:Seconds, Kevin American punk rock musicians Living people Musicians from Reno, Nevada Musicians from Sacramento, California Songwriters from California Writers from Reno, Nevada American punk rock singers Year of birth missing (living people)