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Conversations with bands, artists, writers, organizers, and others involved in DIY punk scenes and projects around the world.
Interview: Porcell of Youth of Today, Bold, Shelter, Judge, etc.
John “Porcell” Porcelly has been a hardcore punk and straight edge legend since the mid-’80s. Bands such as Youth of Today, Judge, and Shelter were among my earliest and biggest hardcore…
Comadre: Rebuild the Love and Take Back the Sound
Comadre is a five-piece hardcore punk band from Redwood City, California, formed in 2004. Their music hit that perfect spot between chaos and melody: fast, frantic, joyful, catchy, and full…
Analena: (Dare to) Dance, Sing and Scream Through Your Life!
Ever since I first heard Analena, there has been a special place for these folks in my heart. Formed in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1997, Analena became one of those bands that never sat comfortably…
Beyond Pink: Wear All Black One Day And All Pink The Other
Formed in 2002, Beyond Pink is an all-female hardcore punk band from Sweden that released a couple of amazing releases through the feminist Emancypunx Collective. The band consists of…
Martin Crudo: Queers Did Not Just Riot… We Are Everywhere!
Martin Sorrondeguy is a living legend within the DIY hardcore punk scene. But he is no stranger to discrimination himself, and draws on his own past experiences in his music as a way of…
Run With The Hunted: We Ebb and Flow and Grow and Change
Run With The Hunted is a hardcore band from Phoenix, Arizona, formed in early 2007. They play a technical but heavy style of hardcore that brings to mind bands like Indecision and Shai…
Agrimonia: Deep Into Their Dark & Epic Crust
Agrimonia are a five-piece band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2005. Blending sludge, crust, post-metal, and dark melodic heaviness, they have built a sound that feels both massive and…
Greg Bennick Discusses Trial Reunions, Personal Projects, and Brian Redman’s Legacy
Speaker of words, juggler of objects, vocalist of Trial and Between Earth & Sky, and a person involved in more projects than can fit neatly into a few sentences. Greg Bennick is one of…
Adrian Castillo: A Farewell to Seven Generations
Update: 7 Generations members Chris Rouse, Tim Rusmisel, and Nicholas James Lynch were publicly called out for sexual abuse and predatory behavior in an article published on our site in…
Chris Rouse: An Interview with the Singer of 7 Generations
Update: Chris Rouse, as well as two other members of the band—Tim Rusmisel and Nicholas James Lynch—were publicly called out for sexual abuse and predatory behavior in an article published…
The Saddest Landscape: Isn’t All Hardcore an Emotional Expression?
The Saddest Landscape formed in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2002 and quickly became one of the most affecting bands in the screamo and emotive hardcore scene. Built around Andy Maddox’s…
From The Depths: Figuring Out a Way to Keep Fighting for the World We Want
From the Depths were an anarcho-punk band from North Carolina, connected to the wider CrimethInc. Ex-Workers’ Collective network and featuring people who had been involved in bands such as…