Author: Nikki

Former editor at Inked Magazine and contributor to a wide variety of art and media publications over the years, Nikki founded Today Forever in 2022 as a love letter to the music and scene she has been fortunate to be involved in for the better part of a lifetime.
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Slide Away Fest 2024 Recap at The Belasco, Los Angeles

Late last year, Philadelphia shoegaze legends Nothing revealed that they had very special plans for the ten year anniversary of the band’s seminal 2014 album Guilty of Everything. The band would be playing the album…

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Interview: Fury of Five

Few hardcore bands are more synonymous with raw aggression and intensity than New Jersey hardcore legends Fury of Five. With a signature style that combines streetwise rhythms with heavy, metal-inspired riffs and ruthlessly aggressive lyrics,…

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More to Pride, Berthold City, Ill Communication, War Is Hell at Programme, Fullerton, 2/9/2024

Friday, February 9th saw Los Angeles invade Programme Skate & Sound when Berthold City and More to Pride played a packed show along with Tehachapi’s own Ill Communication and War Is Hell.  The skate shop…

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No Plan, Caged View, No Lights, One Armed Joey at Programme, Fullerton, 1/29/2024

The Bay Area’s own No Lights and Caged View joined Orange County’s No Plan  for a quick tour run down the West Coast from January 26th to 28th, 2024 with stops at Hello Village in…

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Interview: Cosmic Joke

Hailing from Southern California’s beautiful San Fernando Valley, Cosmic Joke play fast and aggressive hardcore that marries SoCal skate punk with the tried and true DC hardcore sound.  Serving fast riffs and scathingly on point…

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Interview: Colin of Arabia

Pillars of the Boston hardcore scene, COA (Colin of Arabia) are back with a brand new EP, Trauma Dump, on Triple B Records, their first new music in over a decade. Recorded directly to analog…

Spiritual Cramp singer Mike Bingham
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Interview: Spiritual Cramp

A jittery outpouring of nervous energy, Spiritual Cramp is like little else I’ve heard in the last ten years, yet draws influence from so many places and sounds I’ve been wanting to revisit. This isn’t…

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Incendiary, Mindforce, Take Offense, Twist of Cain at Chain Reaction, Anaheim, 6/30/2023

To kick off summer 2023, Sound & Fury brought Incendiary and Mindforce from New York to SoCal, with sold out shows at both Chain Reaction in Anaheim and 1720 Warehouse in Los Angeles. Playing with support…

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No More Heroes Presents: Enemy with DJ Kate Clover and Nikki, Monty Bar, Los Angeles 4/29/2023

No More Heroes Presents Enemy with DJs Kate Clover and Nikki Saturday, April 29th No More Heroes presents Enemy with DJ Kate Clover and guest DJ Nikki from our very Today Forever at the Monty…

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For The Children 2022 at The Belasco, Los Angeles, Recap

For the Children 2022 at The Belasco Theater Recap When the hardcore community comes together, great things happen. That’s exactly what SOS Booking’s annual holiday toy drive event, For The Children, is about. For two…

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Today Forever Zine Issue 02 Available Now!

Today Forever is back with Issue 02! Issue 02 is an expanded edition with 72 pages of interviews, photography, show reviews, and more! Once again limited to 300 hand numbered copies European distro through Core-Tex…

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Gorilla Biscuits, Strife, Ignite, and more at the Garden Amp, Garden Grove, 12/10/2022

  Suburban Clampdown 3:  Gorilla Biscuits, Strife, Ignite, Firestarter, The Venomous Pinks, Sweat, Godhead, Bent Blue, Major Pain, Strung Out  December, 2022 saw the return of Suburban Clampdown 3 to the Garden Amphitheater in Garden,…