Youth Brigade is an American hardcore punk band formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, in 1980 by brothers Mark, Adam, and Shawn Stern.

A year later in 1978, they discovered punk rock and formed a quirky prog rock/new wave band called The Extremes, releasing a four-song EP on which Shawn sang with a fake English accent.

The large punk house became a meeting place which drew participants from as far away as Huntington Beach in Orange County and Oxnard, which is west of Thousand Oaks, California.

Bands including Circle Jerks used Skinhead Manor as a practice space and residents planned to the launch a pirate radio station.

[6]Godzilla's a club in a former bowling alley in the Sun Valley section of Los Angeles,[8] became the new hub of activity for the Stern brothers and the venue grew into a mecca for punk rockers from around Southern California.

They were part of the big BYO extravaganza "Youth Movement '82" at the Hollywood Palladium, where 3500 people showed up for an all Los Angeles bill in early February.

in spring 1984 and then played around 50 dates throughout the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia, Poland, and Britain as one of the first independent American bands to tour the underground of both Western Europe and Eastern Bloc countries.

[citation needed] After the tour, younger brother and band bassist Adam decided to return to art school and finish his degree.

[11] In 1989 Mark and Adam with younger brother Jamie Stern, founded the swing band Royal Crown Revue along with three other musicians.

[citation needed] In 1991, Mark and Adam met in a bar in Hamburg, Germany and expressed a desire to reform Youth Brigade for a tour, to which Shawn agreed.

Bombs, and current Social Distortion guitarist Jonny "2 Bags" Wickersham and recorded the next full length album, To Sell the Truth in April 1996.