ANGST
Angst was an American punk rock band from San Francisco, California. Formed in
1980 by brothers Joseph Pope and Jon E. Risk, along with drummer Michael Hursey,
Angst played their first show in mid-1981. The band's debut release was the
seven-song EP Angst on Happy Squid Records in 1983. They later signed with SST
Records and, in 1985, released their first full-length album, Lite Life, which
received critical acclaim for its politically informed tunes. Over the next four
years, Angst toured extensively across America and Europe, releasing albums such
as Mending Wall (1986), Myster...
