Hardcore

Hardcore Post-Hardcore Punk Rock 

SF Hardcore Pioneers Whipping Boy Reimagine 2nd LP

August 10, 2025August 11, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1984, 2025, Blackhouse Records, California, Dead Kennedys, Dysillusion, Eugene Robinson, Klaus Flouride, Muru Muru, San Francisco, Steve Ballinger, Whipping Boy

Dysillusion (fka Muru Muru) out Sept. 5

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Hardcore Post-Punk Punk 

Charm School: Keeping Cool in Kentucky

March 11, 2025March 11, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2025, Andrew Charm, Andrew Sellers, Charm School, Crain, Debt Forever, Kentucky, Louisville, Rodan, Slint, Squirrel Bait, Surprise Mind

Catching up with Louisville’s purveyors of post-punk protest music

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Hardcore Punk Rock 

The Battle Scars of Black Flag

March 26, 2024March 26, 2024 Jason Gross 2 Comments 1984, 40th Anniversary, Black Flag, Chuck Biscuits, Chuck Dukowski, Dez Cadena, Greg Ginn, Henry Rollins, Keith Morris, My War, Robo, The Minutemen

Was Greg Ginn testing our patience with My War?

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Hardcore Punk Rock 

Green Hell: The Misfits’ Earth A.D. at 40

December 12, 2023December 12, 2023 Todd Manning 1 Comment 1983, 40th Anniversary, Doyle, Earth A.D., Glenn Danzig, Jerry Only, Lodi, New Jersey, The Misfits

Looking back on the second studio album from the North Jersey punk legends

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Hardcore Metal! Noise Post-Hardcore Punk 

Punk Visionary Justin Pearson Subject of New Film

October 22, 2023February 19, 2024 Todd Manning 0 Comments Dead Cross, Don't Fall In Love With Yourself, Gabe Serbian, Jin Nix, Justin Pearson, Struggle, Swing Kids, The Locust, Turnstyle Films, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

A closer look at Don’t Fall In Love With Yourself

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Alternative Rock Hard Rock Hardcore jazz Punk Rock Soul 

Inside the New 33 1/3 Book On Living Colour’s Time’s Up

June 5, 2023June 5, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1990, 33 1/3 Series, Bloomsbury, Corey Glover, Epic Records, Kimberly Mack, Little Richard, Living Colour, Muzz Skillings, Time's Up, Vernon Reid, Will Calhoun

A conversation with author Kimberly Mack

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Hardcore 

Agnostic Front Reissues Classic EP for Record Store Day

April 20, 2023April 20, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2023, Agnostic Front, Bridge Nine Records, New York Hardcore, Record Store Day, Roger Miret, United Blood

United Blood returns to stores for its 40th anniversary

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Dub/Reggae Hardcore Punk 

Big Takeover: Bad Brains’ Rock for Light at 40

April 17, 2023April 17, 2023 Todd Manning 0 Comments 1983, Attitude, Bad Brains, Big Takeover, Daryl Jenifer, Dr. Know, Earl Hudson, HR, Ric Ocasek, Right Brigade, Rock for Light, Washington D.C.

Reflecting on the D.C. band’s unstoppable second album

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Hardcore Indie Rock Post-Punk Punk 

Hüsker Dü Prep Archival Live Album

April 4, 2023April 4, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2023, Bob Mould, Grant Hart, Greg Norton, Husker Du, Minneapolis, Reflex Records, Reissues, Tonite Longhorn

Tonite Longhorn collects rare live recordings from the band’s early days

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Hard Rock Hardcore Heavy Metal Hip Hop Rap Rock 

Ice-T: The Original Gangster at 65

February 16, 2023February 16, 2023 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 1992, 65th birthday, Body Count, Boston, Cop Killer, Ice-T, Paradise Club

Jim Sullivan recounts catching an early Body Count set

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Emotional Punk Rock aka Emo Hardcore Heavy Metal Post-Hardcore 

Cosmopolitan Blood Loss: Glassjaw’s Worship & Tribute At 20

July 20, 2022July 20, 2022 Ian King 0 Comments 2002, 20th Anniversary, Daryl Palumbo, Emo, Glassjaw, Justin Beck, Long Island, Ross Robinson, Todd Weinstock, Warner Bros., Worship & Tribute

Looking back at the Long Island post-hardcore mavens’ complicated sophomore classic

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Experimental Hardcore jazz Music Journalism Punk 

Corporate Rock Sucks; This Book Doesn’t

April 14, 2022April 14, 2022 Ryan Bray 0 Comments Black Flag, Dinosaur Jr., Greg Ginn, Jim Ruland, MARK LANEGAN, Saint Vitus, SST Records, The Minutemen, The Stains

Jim Ruland takes on the history of one of the most storied and troubled labels in the American punk underground

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Hard Rock Hardcore Heavy Metal Metal! Remembrance 

RIP Jonny Z: A Megaforce Of A Human Being

February 11, 2022February 11, 2022 Brian O'Neill 0 Comments Anthrax, Dave Mustaine, Heavy Tales: The Metal. The Music. The Madness. As Lived, James Hetfield, Jon Zazula, Jonny Z, Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich, Marsha Zazula, Megaforce Records, Metallica, No Life Till Leather, Overkill, RIP

One of the founding fathers of American Thrash, Jon Zazula left behind a beautiful legacy of brutality

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Hardcore Punk 

Thirsty and Miserable: Black Flag’s Damaged Turns 40

November 3, 2021April 3, 2022 Todd Manning 2 Comments 1981, Black Flag, Chuck Dukowski, Damaged, Greg Ginn, Henry Rollins, Robo

Looking back on the album that changed American hardcore forevermore

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Hardcore Post-Hardcore Punk Rock 

Round Eye’s Own Chinese Democracy

September 15, 2021September 23, 2021 Brad Cohan 0 Comments Beijing, Bill Stevenson, China, Li Wei Yu, Mike Watt, Pete “Peetzo” Mazich, Rolling Stone, Round Eye, Secondmen, The Descendents

The Shanghai-based punk rock collective aim for the political protest jugular on Culture Shock Treatment 

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