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Austin Noise-Punks Xetas Think Fun Fun Fun Fest is "A Double-Edged Sword"
Love the players, hate the game (and the traffic).
From Matinees to Reunions: NYHC Memories from Sick of It All Guitarist Pete Koller
Photo by Ken Salerno For almost thirty years now, New York’s Sick of It All have been a legendary anomaly upon the hardcore scene. For the duration of their existence, they have not only stayed aesthetically true to themselves and the scene they
Get to Know Breakout, the Austin Band That's About to, You Know
We chatted with them after one of their Fun Fun Fun Fest sets.
Are You a Flowerhead? Stream GIVE's Hardcore Masterpiece 'The Electric Flower Circus'
The new LP in full now!
Red Death Is Hardcore, But Maybe Also "DC Fight Metal"
The also members of Coke Bust, Secretarian Violence, Zoom, Genocide Pact, Pure Disgust and others dropped one of the best demo tapes of 2014. Get familiar.
We Interviewed the Sleepers' Guitarist Michael Belfer
I recently got the Sleepers' guitarist Michael Belfer on the phone to talk about his days in the band, and it was a real kick. Here’s what he had to say while I poured a few beers down my throat.
We Interviewed Sab Grey From Iron Cross
When most people conjure up an image of the early 80’s D.C. Hardcore Punk scene, they usually think it’s all squeaky clean bald heads, skateboards, twinkies, and cola.
We Got Power! An Interview with Dave Markey
Here comes Dave Markey and Jordan Schwarz rendering all this crap littering my shelves obsolete with their three-hundred page monster of a book entitled We Got Power: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980’s Southern California.
We Talked to the Authors of Wired Up!
Wired Up! is a three hundred plus paged book documenting most of the lesser known artists from that time of platform boots and bogus bi-sexuality, the Glam Rock 70’s.
We Interviewed Greg Prato, the Guy Who Wrote the New Meat Puppets Book
Finally, a book about those acid gobbling weirdos, The Meat Puppets.
We Interviewed Penelope Houston from Avengers
The Avengers have finally re-released their infamous "pink" album.