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VINNIE STIGMA

Agnostic Front Founder & NYHC Lower East Side Patriarch • Lower East Side, NYC • Since 1979

Founding guitarist and beating heart of Agnostic Front since 1980, as well as early co-founder of Madball. Born and raised in a tenement apartment on Mott Street, Vinnie Stigma is the beloved ambassador of New York Hardcore, famous for jumping straight into the circle pit mid-song with his guitar.

“New York Hardcore is family. We grew up on the Lower East Side with nothing, so we built our own scene from the pavement up.”