I love heavy music. And as someone who is far from a genre purist, I love heavy music that experiments with the "hardcore" label. Music that challenges what hardcore can be is extremely special to me....

Hailing from the far reaches of… Santa Cruz, California is the band, BL’AST!. They are a hardcore punk band that was active during the epoch of Black Flag, and BL’AST! Is picking up steam again.  “Manic...

Taking a brief detour from this month's Pride-based content (because I'm very sick and incapable of concerted research) to cover a recent show I attended. This show was special, not just because it...

As we usher in this year's Pride Month, I think about how frightening it has become to exist as a queer person in the United States. Amid a sudden resurgence of anti-LGBT rhetoric, expressed both...

I love record stores. There's something unparalleled about walking into a brick-and-mortar shop and seeing rows upon rows of crates and shelves, the walls papered with posters and zine covers and...

I don’t keep a secret about how much I love Gel. This band got on my radar after seeing the now-infamous video of their set at a Sonic Drive-In, but it wasn’t until I got the opportunity to see...

Zorn is a Philadelphia-based band that has a sound which blends the intricacies and vocal style of GISM, the hard-hitting intensity and power of Discharge, and some black metal flair. The result is nothing...

I Against I While Bad Brains's debut studio album, aptly titled "Bad Brains," is indisputably iconic, "I Against I" possesses a special kind of charm. Bad Brains, considered among hardcore punk's...