So dudes/dudettes. There’s a chance I won’t be able to post at all next week (very high actually), but I will be back soon. To tide you all over, here’s some last of the summer jaaaams. MP3:The Vapids – Monkey BeachBouncing Souls – Shark AttackThe Boils – Skinhead Reggae Beach StompSubb – LA Beach BumMustard […]

If there is one staple band in punk rock, it probably would have to be NOFX. Actively playing music since 1983, NOFX has released a shit ton of albums and EPs over the years. How’s a NOFX fan supposed to keep up? Finally, the band recently released “The Longest EP” (a play on one of […]

When I first read about Hostage Calm being compared to The Smiths or Pavement, I almost shrugged them off as “typical hipster bullshit” that I don’t like, with the added weight that they used to play hardcore. Usually would just ignore… but I decided to give their newest Self Titled album a listen, and let […]

I must say, I love Hate5six. This guy goes to a crapload of hardcore shows, and films in high quality, the entire set. Here are some of the sets I saw from This Is Hardcore (most importantly, Kid Dynamite!!!). Seriously, if you don’t care about the show, just watch the 1st minute of Kid Dynamite’s […]

Some days, you wake up and completely hate everything. When this happens, you need some brutal hardcore, and Some Girls fills that void. Although this California band broke up years ago, their 2nd EP “The DNA Will Have It’s Say” still often dominates my headphones. Vocalist Wes (from Give Up The Ghost and Locust fame) […]

Words cannot express how stoked I have been over the past few months to know that I would finally get a chance to see Kid Dynamite. I’ve been waiting a long 8 years for this moment, and finally… at This Is Hardcore, I was going to see them. They were the only reason I went […]

Anytime somebody tells one of my friends that they listen to everything, she always responds back with “oh yeah? Everything? Do you like crust?” Probably being one of her only friends who actually DOES like crust (although I will admit, I don’t listen to everything…) I got to say, I’ve been listening to Phobia’s 2006 […]

Hey you fucking shoobies, listen up! Summer is almost over here in the Northeast (and screw you lucky bastards who have warm weather year round), so you better go make some final trips to the beach before mother nature goes all Jack Frost on your ass. While you’re down catching some rays, you’re gonna want […]

There’s certainly something about Dillinger Four that seems to be universal. Kind of like The Bouncing Souls, I’ve never come across anyone who didn’t love these Minneapolis punks (and if not love, at the very least dig them). Most people are familiar with all of their four studio albums (four albums since 1998? C’mon dudes…) […]

So, in case you didn’t hear the news, Prop 8 in California (the law that made it illegal for homosexuals to marry) was defeated in court yesterday, on the basis of “that shit’s fucked up!” (this may or may not be an exact quote from the judge). Seriously, the fact that gay marriage is actually […]