Youth Brigade was a punk trio formed by brothers Mark Stern , Adam Stern , and Shawn Stern , in Beverly Hills, California in 1980. Broken up and re-formed a couple of times, they released only a few records, but were also influential as the founders of the Better Youth Organization, an independent record label and concert booking firm.

Youth Brigade's first and most influential album was Sound and Fury including tracks We`ll Sink With California and What Will The Revolution Change?, the latter being an introspective critique about the punk movement itself. Two very different versions of this album exist, with the rare first edition containing many different songs from the second edition (the above songs are from the second edition).

Youth Brigade was also another, unrelated punk band from Washington DC, who released a 7" EP on Dischord Records in 1981. This band subsequently, during their short life, called themselves 'DC Youth Brigade.'