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Forget Your Roots: Understandably Unheralded Pioneers of Tr00 Pop Punk and...
All too often, history is viewed as a contextual lens for the present. As noted novelist George Santayana has approximately said, “those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it”. The...
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2014 STATE OF THE SCENE ADDRESS: It’s 1997 again
I called my 2012 State Of The Scene Address “It’s Cool To Be Tr00,” because 2011 marked the death of any remaining vestiges of the scene era, and the dawn of a new grey/brown/olive green age. I am not...
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HOLLISTERCORE is the best genre of music imo
If you’ve ever walked into a Hollister store at your local mall, you probably noticed a few things: it’s dark as fuck, they spray a lot of their “So Cal” scent, and a lot of hot slutty girls shop...
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I think I found who invented the “overly long, zany song title” thing
Today we think of long, zany song titles of the domain of pop-punk and easycore. For example, read the following (made-up) song title to yourself out loud: “But Matt, I Thought You Said You’d Trade Me...
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What To Listen To In Order To Have Advanced ‘Old School’ Tastes In 2014
Having now been aware of and in some manner or another participated in The Scene for close to a decade and a half, I’ve observed that within the decade or so it takes for trends to change, each year...
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are pop punk elitists the most annoying type of music fan?
I’ve always loved pop punk for the reason that it didn’t matter if you could name 50 bands off the top of your head or if you were super knowledgeable about the history of the genre – it was just fun,...
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The three types of hardcore kids: Scumbags, Weirdos, and Normals
In my 20+ years in hardcore, I’ve realized that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Sure, maybe this year Vans are in and Air Max are out. Swoopy myspace hair is out, Macklemore fades...
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Will the Mid 2010′s = The Rise of Soft Grunge Music? (Potential Demise of Pop...
Where have all the Pop Punk kids gone? They’re off being sad. Sad is the new happy. Remember when all the EZcore bros evolved into Tr00 Pop Punk bros and said bye bye to the breakdowns? I remember it...
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brah lets talk about CLOSEDCASKETACTIVITIESCORE brah (new XIBALBA track)
Longtime readers will know that SYWH has hyped Southern California as the greatest place in the world, and there really isn’t any disputing that. We have the greatest Mexican food, the best weather...
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Now I know how elderly Jews feel when they see Nazi skinheads
The small text says “fuck macho bullshit 4eva” *exasperated face emoji* My grandpa would always get really mad when he saw Nazi skinheads on TV or whatever, and justifiably so– he fought in World War...
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FOREVER THE SICKEST KIDS are breaking up *crying emoji*
“lol rmbr when we thought we were gonna be the next all time low” Our friends at Property Of Zack broke the news last week that FTSK are “going on indefinite hiatus” aka breaking up. While in all...
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What ppl REALLY thought of ur favorite 90s hardcore bands
It is no secret that 90s-worship is in full effect with Kids These Days. But as I’ve mentioned many times before, the difference between how the most-jocked 90s bands are seen today vs how they were...
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Someone in LINKIN PARK likes Botch; minds are blown
Via MetalInsider As you can see, Mike from LP namechecked a few old hardcore bands, and like 500 people have told me about it about as though it’s the most astonishing thing since Jesus was born. It...
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Let’s talk about “amazing” bands
Hypothesis: there is a nearly perfect, negative correlation between how much people describe a band as “amazing” and how “amazing” they actually are. Basically, the more people online call a band...
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TYLER CARTER has a tr00 crabwave song
I don’t know about you, but lately I have been all about popular young adult alternative band ISSUES. I just can’t stop dancing to their infectious rhythms and catchy hooks! Obviously their greatest...
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A look back at BROKENCYDE
If u want to feel really old, consider this: BROKENCYDE has been a band for almost 8 years, and their ‘breakthru single’ “Freaxxx” came out 6 years ago. And while it’s kind of a bummer that they are...
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MILLIONAIRES are on tour for the next 3 months; unsure why
Am I the only one who feels a little weird seeing “Facebook” and “Millionaires” in the same sentence? There are few things more cringeworthy than when someone who is not a big deal at all acts like...
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Are you a Fake Real Metal Kid??
This post is about my least favorite trend in hardcore: tryhard little kids adopting the persona of what we might call Fake Real Metal Kids. You are probably asking yourself what this means, but it’s...
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WHO’S THE CUTEST POP ROCK SINGER???
If I could single out one pressing question that has been on the minds’ of SYWH readers for quite some time now, a question that’s answer is so daunting that they possibly might be losing sleep over...
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How long until the following poser bands become tr00??
As regular readers of SYWH know, and as the above example illustrates painfully well, it is inescapable part of scene-life that seemingly all bands who were seen as ‘gay shit for homos/posers/scene...
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