Author

Gabriel Kuhn

Gabriel Kuhn is the author of books such as Sober Living for the
Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics and
Soccer vs the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics. He blogs
at LeftTwoThree.

Interviews

Tomar Control: Peruvian Hardcore Girls Start European Tour Today

Gabriel Kuhn Jun 27, 2025

Tomar Control, the band that put Peruvian hardcore on the map, is returning to Europe to promote their new album, Frente al miedo, out on Refuse Records. With close to thirty dates in eleven…

Interviews

Satan Not Hatin’: Pushing Back Against Hate & Bigotry in Alt Music Scenes

Gabriel Kuhn May 16, 2025

One of the projects that DIY Solidarity was able to fund this year was Satan Not Hatin’, which is a grassroots campaign launched by the Global Order of Satan to push back against the racism,…

Interviews

Etniko Bandido: Decolonization, Land Regeneration, and the Spirit of DIY in the Philippines

Gabriel Kuhn Feb 14, 2025

Last year, we launched the project DIY Solidarity that allows us to redistribute funds among DIY communities to beat at least some of the injustices that come with a global economic order…

Interviews

xCHOKEx: Bulgarian Straight Edge Band Drops Debut Album and Chats with Gabriel Kuhn

Gabriel Kuhn Oct 30, 2024

If proof was still needed for the global spread of straight edge, look at all the places that celebrate Edge Day (October 17). The autonomous social center Fabrika Avtonomia in Sofia,…

Interviews

Hour of Reprisal: Straight Edge, Radical Politics, and Repping the UK Hardcore Scene

Gabriel Kuhn Sep 18, 2024

Formed in 2019, Hour of Reprisal has put Norwich in East Anglia on the straight edge map. They’ve kept busy since with no-nonsense chords and lyrics and no less than six releases. Their…

Interviews

Shepherds Reign: The Reign of Pacific Metal in a Bleeding World

Gabriel Kuhn Aug 1, 2024

Shepherds Reign is a metal band from South Auckland, New Zealand/Aotearoa. South Auckland has a large Polynesian population, which is reflected in the band’s makeup. In 2023, the band…

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Ondt Blod: Sápmi Hardcore Fights Assimilation & Oppression in the Far North

Gabriel Kuhn May 10, 2024

Ondt Blod (Bad Blood) was founded in 2012 by five lads from the town of Kirkenes, located in the far northeast corner of Norway, right at the border to Russia. The region is part of Sápmi,…

Opinion & Editorials

Keepin’ It Real in Indonesia: A Tribute to Manusia Buatan

Gabriel Kuhn Feb 27, 2023

With reformasi in 1998, Indonesia experienced political change towards a more democratic future after 32 years under authoritarian regime. The new times were also reflected in youth culture.…

Opinion & Editorials

Stop Mucking About: Catechisms, Straight Edge, and Why It’s Not as Bad as It Sounds

Gabriel Kuhn Nov 14, 2022

There are things in one’s past that one doesn’t necessarily make a point of telling everyone about, even if (or, perhaps, because) they say a lot about your personality. What would fall into…

Opinion & Editorials

Outplaying the Jocks: Punk and Sports

Gabriel Kuhn Jan 6, 2022

It would seem that punk and sports don’t really go together. Wasn’t jock culture pretty much the antipode to punk? There are plenty of stories about jocks and punks battling it out, quite…

Interviews

‘Why Is Your Band Called White Town?’: Indie Pop, Dialectical Materialism, and Straight…

Gabriel Kuhn Dec 13, 2021

Jyoti Mishra founded the band White Town, which soon turned into a one-man project, in 1989. The song “Your Woman” become a number one hit in the UK in 1997. Jyoti has been straight edge for…