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Conversations with bands, artists, writers, organizers, and others involved in DIY punk scenes and projects around the world.
Anti-Everything: Let’s All Decolonise Punk Together!
Anti-Everything are making music we should all be hearing. Fast and energetic punk songs that condemn corrupt political systems and roar out with a Caribbean twist against racism, inequality…
Endless Bore: Melbourne Fastcore Crew Reveal New Record ‘What Do You Dig For?!’
If you like fast-gnashing guitars, obliterating blast beats and a full-bore hardcore attitude at maximum volume, Endless Bore is for you.
While their influences are numerous, the band…
‘Why Is Your Band Called White Town?’: Indie Pop, Dialectical Materialism, and Straight…
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…
DREGS: Taking Up Space to be Seen and Heard
DREGS is a hardcore punk band based in Vienna, Austria. The four-piece have released two great EPs through Refuse Records, full of fast riffs and heavy mosh parts with lyrics endorsing a…
Stalled Minds: French Punk Rockers Release Debut Full-Length ‘Shades’ (Premiere +…
French band Stalled Minds is composed of three quarters of hardcore heroes Youth Avoiders, and even if the Avoiders’ guitar sound has become instantly recognizable far and wide, the two…
Meanstream: Hristian Iliev Goes Back in Time to Discuss ’90s Bulgarian Hardcore
The early ‘90s were an interesting time in Europe. In Bulgaria, an Eastern European country ravaged by shock doctrine capitalism, crony corruption, and rapid high inflation after the fall of…
LIFE: 30 Years of Noise-Drenched Japanese Crust Punk
Legends of Japanese crasher crust LIFE started out in May 1991 in Tokyo. Ever since that early '90s moment, "Liberty Independence Freedom Equality", as the acronym stands for, have made loud…
xCauterizex: Straight Edge, The Eternal Resistance
Vegan straight edge hardcore band xCauterizex formed in the increasingly repressive and authoritarian climate of Portland, OR, in 2017. In the beginning of 2019 they recorded a three song…
Gabriel Kuhn: Straight Edge Developed Into a Culture of Its Own, and It’s Here to Stay
Gabriel Kuhn is an Austrian-born writer, translator and union activist living in Sweden. He has published widely in English and German since the '90s, including his straight edge related…
Grand Collapse: There is Always a Yearning for Change Just Beneath the Surface
British hardcore punk thrashers Grand Collapse have become a household name in the DIY scene since their inception in South Wales (now based in Bristol, England) ten years ago in 2011.…
Rethinking the Legacy of Anarcho-Punk Zines: An Interview with Chris Low
Born in the Scottish town of Stirling, Chris Low is a DIY punk drummer, photographer and a graphic designer who witnessed and participated in the emergence of the anarchist punk scene in the…
Out of the Darkness: An Interview with Ex-Yugo HC Punk Zine Publishers
Serbia-based fanzine Out of the Darkness stands out as one of the premier Balkan hardcore punk zines. With ten issues published, it offers valuable insights into the ex-Yugo hardcore punk…