Category: Interviews

In anticipation of Paint It Black’s upcoming three show East Coast run with Dillinger Four this weekend (Nov 22, 23, 24, 2024), here’s the full text of my interview with vocalist Dan Yemin that appeared…

Balancing heavy riffs with flowing melodies and intensely raw lyrics, Caged View are a Bay Area hardcore band featuring former members of Allegiance, Embrace The End, King Woman, and Set Your Goals (just to name…

“I genuinely do not believe you can be a hardcore band without politics,” declares Jerkova, vocalist of Punitive Damage, a self-proclaimed “fast, loud, and pissed off hardcore punk” band from the Pacific Northwest on a…

While, at first glance, The Barbarians Of California may seem like a brand new or unfamiliar band, the creative powerhouses behind the project, Eric Stenman and Aaron Bruno, have been involved in punk and hardcore…

Playing fast, emotive hardcore with an unmatched energy and lyrical poignancy, San Diego’s Bent Blue marry art and activism with music that addresses the injustices and inequalities rampant in today’s world and challenges listeners to…

With a rich history in punk and hardcore, Oxnard, California has produced countless legendary and influential bands like Stalag 13, Dr. Know, In Control, Ill Repute, and now… Torena. Devastatingly heavy and committed to the…

“I think of Public Opinion as a rock and roll band, straight up,” asserts vocalist Kevin Hart when asked how he’d describe the Denver-based band’s sound, but he also observes that “people can sometimes react…

Since its inception in 2006, Sound and Fury has grown to be one of the largest and most recognized hardcore festivals around the world, and yet, despite its massive scope, S&F finds a way to…

The Hope Conspiracy have arisen from a near fourteen year silence to release their first LP in almost twenty years, Tools of Oppression/Rule By Deception, available NOW from Deathwish Records and now streaming on all…

If there is one band that the hardcore community collectively embraced in 2022, it was High Vis. Comprised of members of some of the UK’s most notable hardcore projects (Dirty Money, Tremors, DiE, The Smear),…

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,…

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…