Overview
- Trust Records announced that Are You Ready: The First Studio Recording (Inner Ear – March 1979) will be released on November 6, 2026, with a preview share of an unreleased studio take of “Pay to Cum.”
- The six songs were captured during a single, hour‑long booking at Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, Virginia, in March 1979 and have circulated among fans for decades as bootleg tape‑trade rarities.
- Ian MacKaye produced new mixes for the session and Pete Lyman mastered the release, which Trust Records will issue on vinyl, cassette, and digital formats.
- The release is paired with public programming in Washington, D.C., including a November 5 conversation between bassist Darryl Jenifer and Ian MacKaye and an archival exhibition opening in early November that features material from multiple personal archives.
- More than a historical curiosity, the package delivers clearer provenance and audio for formative Bad Brains material and may shape how musicians and historians reassess the band’s early sound and influence on U.S. hardcore.