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Conversations with bands, artists, writers, organizers, and others involved in DIY punk scenes and projects around the world.
Reaction Fanzine: An Interview With Bence Sabján
Reaction fanzine first appeared around 2006 in Budapest and its first five issues (published the following four years) were in Hungarian. What started as your typical photocopied A5 zine,…
Crucial Zine: If Your Heart’s Not Into Something, Don’t Do It Cuz It Will Suck
Crucial Zine is a humorous hardcore/punk/ska zine based in Athens, Greece. It first appeared around 2008 in Cambridge, UK by Ioannis Pelegrinis (then using the nickname Bobatron) along with…
Quarantined Fanzine: An Interview with Marcus Ericsson
Quarantined fanzine has been among my favorite hardcore punk zines since the start of the pandemic. Their well thought-out interviews, old school layout and, above all, a sturdy mix of both…
Racetraitor: Politics Are Still Part of Hardcore’s Fabric
Born in the early 1970s in a family of Iranian immigrants in Chicago, Mani Mostofi is among those people with a special perspective on politics within the hardcore scene.
"I was only age…
Neverending Winter: An Interview with Siberian Metal Punks Бесконечная Зима
Formed in the Winter of 2010 in the Siberian town of Tomsk, Neverending Winter (Бесконечная зима) is an amp-melting trio blending hulking crust punk with black metal, death metal, noise…
RAMBO: Have Faith in the Youth, This Generation is Poised to Stir Some Shit Up
Formed in Philadelphia around 1999, the music collective known as R.A.M.B.O. (the acronym stood for Revolution Anarchy Mosh Bike Overthrow, among other things) turned the scene on its head…
Drowning Dog & Malatesta: Anarchist Rap for the People Never Heard
From their start in 2005 onwards, MC Drowning Dog and DJ Malatesta have been committed to carrying on the tradition of class conscious hip-hop as a way of sharing stories of anarchist…
xRISALEx: XVX Hardcore Born Out of Turkey’s Social Upheaval
Rising out of Turkey’s increasing socio-political turmoil, xRisalex is a fresh, Vegan Straight Edge project that is here to establish itself as a household name in the underground scene.…
VVVLV: Romanian Band Delivers Monstrous Sludge & Shrieking Blackened Crust
Romania's VVVLV are among the most original current bands hailing from the Balkans. For those yet unaware of them, they combine slow and crushing sludge with fast and shrieking blackened…
Solidarity is Bulletproof: An Interview with Yovel
Hailing from Athens, Greece, black metallers Yovel are making waves across the metal underground. But instead of self-serving misanthropic nihilism, Yovel embody the collective spirit of the…
Respire: Our Lives Have Become a Ceaseless Loop of Outrage and Pain
The word 'collective' comes up often when one speaks about the Toronto-based post-everything sextet Respire. Yet, from the organically singular feel and sound of their music to the roster of…
A Never Ending Passion Project: In Conversation with Enzo Raffler
There’s a huge network of people and bands in Latin America perpetually in motion—making zines, releasing albums, making shows, sharing information, and ultimately uniting everything and…