Justin Pearson is nothing less than a Southern California hardcore hero. Between his Three One G imprint and projects like Swing Kids, Some Girls, Planet B,…
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Up the Blunx Featured Artist: Creature of Rebelmatic
Up the Blunx is a podcast where two Black punks from different walks of life get together to voice their opinions on everything from straight edge…
Review: Every Single Drum Solo in Mastodon’s ‘Fallen Torches’
Mastodon is a badass band. Formed 20 years ago in Atlanta, Georgia, the heavy metal band named after the extinct mammoth with huge tusks has written…
The Skints’ Marcia Richards and Josh Waters Rudge Put The Work In
You could say The Skints are the Tila Tequila of the UK reggae/ska scene, at least in the sense that they knew how to use Myspace…
The Wait to Wait and Bleed: Learning to Love Slipknot
My adolescent too-cool-for-school attitude took away opportunities from me. I wish I was talking about actual school — no, I was pretty good at that. Actually,…
Ceremony’s Ross Farrar on Spice, COVID-19 and Avoiding the Drake Model
On July 17th, DAIS Records released the debut effort from Spice, a new band featuring some familiar old faces, namely members of Ceremony, Sabertooth Zombie and…
Fit for a King’s Tuck O’Leary is democratizing vocal guest spots with Featured X
Technology is constantly changing the way musicians collaborate. In a simpler way, it’s democratized connection. Bands can fire ideas across the internet to write or even…
Members of Battery, Bane, Darkest Hour form Be Well, Talk New LP
Be Well features an impressive lineup of guys who have done time in bands like Darkest Hour, Bane, Converge, Fairweather and more, but what might be…
Delta’s Matt Walker on Experimentalism, Diversity in Hardcore and Culture Abuse
Matt Walker may not be a name that you recognize right off the bat but as a mainstay of the San Francisco punk scene, there’s a…