If helping to invent both punk rock and stage diving while publicly rolling in peanut-butter-coated shards of glass for years doesn’t put some lines on your face (and chest), then a former nasty heroin habit [...]
Alkaline Trio has always been on the outskirts of the post-hardcore/emo/pop-punk scene. While their Jimmy Eat World-ly 2003 breakthrough Good Mourning hit heavy radio rotation, and the lovesick heroin metaphor This Addiction topped US charts, [...]
The Strokes have always been privileged, confused young men, muddled in ambivalence and a healthy dose of the fuck-its. It’s what made their 2001 debut so very special – a breed of nonchalant NYC punk [...]
“Lush and loud, but down to earth.” This is how Lemmy Gurtowsky describes his band, California X – the sludge-boppers who have spent the best part of 2013 tearing down “guitar music is dead” naysayers, [...]
Parquet Courts are unapologetically New York. Or so they like to think. “New York felt like my home before I moved there,” claimed front man, Andrew Savage, in a recent interview with the ailing music [...]
Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin may have a PhD in zoology, but he could have easily pursued philosophy, instead. Lucky for us – or unlucky, if you happen to disagree with him – Graffin decided to [...]
After recovering from 2011′s, “migraine“-inducing Going Out in Style, Dropkick Murphys decided to go all in on unrestrained, fun singalongs, as they put it; no over-thinking, no grandiose concepts, just throw-an-arm-around-your-fellow-man stuff. They hit their [...]
Age old adage that less is thoroughly more in mind, man did this “epic as fuck” trilogy lose steam fast. And it has nothing to do with Billie Joe Armstrong losing his shit at the [...]
They famously called themselves “hardcore kids with leftover Slayer riffs” when they started in 1990. Now Converge are arguably the untainted face of aggressive punk. Propelled by LYRICIST Jacob Bannon, their abrasive sound has spread without any mainstream [...]
Bad Brains made their name as the late-70′s afro-punks who, alongside Black Flag, spearheaded hardcore punk as we know it. Plus, they were the only ones to fuse it with reggae, of all genres. While that [...]
