India, July 19 -- There is a moment in punk history that doesn't get talked about enough.

It was 1979. At the legendary New York City music club CBGB, four young black men from Washington DC had just finished playing the fastest, most ferocious set. The kicker? Halfway through, they stopped the mayhem and played reggae. Beautiful, meditative, spiritually charged reggae. The crowd didn't know what hit them. Neither did punk rock.

Bad Brains weren't just fast, they were revolutionary. And not in the overused way that term gets thrown around in music journalism. They literally rewrote the rules on what rebellion could sound like.

The core four who changed everything were HR (Paul Hudson) on vocals, his brother Earl Hudson on drums, Dr Kno...