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The sad tale of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
Once upon a time, in the kingdom of Myspace, the scene was ruled by a quintet of Christian lads from Dayton, Ohio who went by the unlikely moniker of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. The scene-prophets held...
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HXC HISTORY: Hardline and how moshcore kids turned into vegan muslim...
Once upon a time, Pete Wentz was in a band called VEGAN REICH (aka VEGAN JIHAD). As u might guess from the name, VR were vegan (as was the fashion at the time). But they didn’t stop there: they were...
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the best of ZANY NEON SCENE MERCH
The image above says it all: merch just isn’t what it used to be. Walk into a Hot Topic in 2014 and instead of being blinded by a rainbow of giant, neon cartoon imagery reflecting off of foil print...
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Scientific Proof That Hardcore Punk Evolved Into Scenecore (record collectors...
Dictionary.com defines evolution as “any process of formation or growth; development”. We see evolution EVERYWHERE. Not just in plants and animals, but in art too. Do you ever think to yourself,...
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Will 2014 be the beginning of ‘peak cassette’?
If u aren’t familiar with the concept of ‘peak oil,’ it’s pretty simple: the basic idea is that at some point, we will reach a point at which the maximum rate of oil extraction is reached, and after...
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Why Posers Are a Crucial Part of Any Thriving Music Scene
If you’ve ever been a part of any music scene, you’ve probably known that one guy who some would identify as a “poser”. Actually, there’s a good chance you’ve known a bunch of them. Perhaps you even...
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POLL: why is Halloween so popular with annoying, alternative white people?
It’s October, and you know what that means: alternative white people won’t shut the fuck up about how excited they are for Halloween. Whether it’s lots of unwanted details about all the various ideas...
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More evidence that the myspace/scene revival is just around the corner
If u ever wrote off my predictions of a neon/scene/myspace revival as a joke or wishful thinking, you might want to start reconsidering that. Check out this list of the popular stories on altpress.com...
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Hipsters and art students have finally discovered early 80s hardcore *trophy...
some guy from a museum talks to some other guy who was in some band like 30 years ago about what things were like back when Ronald Reagan was president and how KISS is not a very good band Of all the...
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Boston Hardcore ’90 to ’94 – your primer to old school new school…
Well, it fucking happened – I looked in the mirror and I’m currently banging on 43 years old… getting some wrinkles around the eyes, hair getting pretty grey and my oldest kid is now the same age I was...
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Which 80s HC band should be jocked by Noisey/Rollling Stone/NPR next??
Since Vice/Noisey seem to like borrowing my ideas (1, 2), I figured I might as well at least feed them some good ones. And with their fawning over ancient hardcore at an all-time high, what better...
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HxC History: the VICTORY RECORDS years
As much as the Noisey/NPR/Burning Fight crowd would like you to believe that PROPAGHANDI, FUGAZI and REFUSED were the torchbearers of 90s hardcore, that’s just not true. There is one and only one...
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2015 TREND REPORT: What unpopular 90s bands to jock for maximum merchswap cred
While all signs point to a neon/fun revival in the medium-to-long term, for now we are still deep in the 90s revival. With all the obvious bands like BIOHAZARD and MORBID ANGEL already played out...
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They’re Still A Band??! [2015 edition]
As someone who has been watching MMA for over 20 years, one of the hardest things to see is when a fighter who should have retired many years ago just won’t hang up the gloves and ends up being on the...
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CHEAT SHEET 4 STARTING THE NEXT HYPE HARDCORE BAND
One of the most common mistakes that entry-level investors make is plunging into the market after a boom, only to sell again in a panic when prices inevitably fall. For example, all the poor kids who...
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BROKENCYDE’s crowdfunding campaign is a bummer
As you have probably heard by now, BROKENCYDE launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise $30,000 to “escape the clutches of their label” or whatever and release/market their next album DIY. I wasn’t...
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Bands u may have slept on: ONE LIFE CREW
I am kind of hesitant to write this post, because I am 10000% certain it’s going to attract tons of autistic europeans, 19 year-old merchswap dorks, and other undesirables, but I get asked about ONE...
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these bands were playing your favorite SYWH genres (or something similar to...
I always thought the music scene followed a similar pattern of *a small handful of bands come up with a unique and innovative sound, become popular off it, then a second generation of bands copy those...
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let’s talk about EARLY 2000s POP
When I look back on the past 20 years, I realized that I got to experience a lot of things that Kids These Days would think are pretty cool: seeing LIFE OF AGONY and CROWN OF THORNZ in their prime,...
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State of the pop-punk union 2k15: tr00 is OUT, fun mallpunk is IN
It’s kind of amazing that SYWH is now 6 years old, and as such has been around long enough to see the trends change a few times. Back when I started this thing, BROKENCYDE were at their peak of buzz,...
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