Published on March 18th, 2010 by The Editor
Ready to riot? Then ditch the clichés of 1977, and prepare to jump around and break stuff to the schizoid garage-punk of Bitch Songs by Die! Chihuahua Die!
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Tags: Bitch Songs, Die! Chihuahua Die!, garage, hardcore, punk, punk'n'roll
Published on March 10th, 2010 by The Editor
Bored of angsty and schizoid guitar-driven post-hardcore? Maybe you should try the piano flavour as offered by French three-piece My Own Private Alaska.
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Tags: Amen, emo, hardcore, My Own Private Alaska, post-hardcore, progressive, screamo
Published on March 4th, 2010 by The Editor
After The Ordeal may have won some Download airplay with their bedroom jams, but first single “The End Never Comes” doesn’t get a medal just for showing up.
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Tags: After The Ordeal, hardcore, post-hardcore, The End Never Comes
Published on March 3rd, 2010 by Jonathan McCalmont
If you think the title The Rising Tide (Part 1): Corsa Al Ribasso is pretentious and clunky, wait until you hear the music Djevera put on the album of that name.
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Tags: alt-rock, alternative, Corsa Al Ribasso, Djevera, hardcore, post-hardcore, progressive, The Rising Tide
Published on March 1st, 2010 by The Editor
I don’t know what precedent there is for it, but Crime In Stereo’s new album I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone gives hardcore a good hard kick in the arse.
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Tags: Crime In Stereo, hardcore, I Was Trying To Descibe You To Someone, pop, post-hardcore, progressive, psychedelic, punk
Published on January 21st, 2010 by The Editor
Until We Are Outnumbered sees Danish bruisers The Kandidate combine the simple and punchy elements of thrash and hardcore to neck-shattering contemporary effect.
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Tags: hardcore, metal, The Kandidate, thrash, Until We Are Outnumbered
Published on January 14th, 2010 by The Editor
This is The New Enemy: four Toronto guys with buzzcuts bringing back the vest-clad and swaggering toughness of early proto-hardcore on their Shakedown EP.
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Tags: hardcore, proto-hardcore, punk, Shakedown, The New Enemy
Published on December 30th, 2009 by The Editor
London four-piece Hope & State evidently remember when pop-punk went bad, and their Grand Gestures EP captures the moment before that in ragged lo-fi glory.
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Tags: Grand Gestures, hardcore, Hope & State, pop, pop-punk, punk, rock
Published on December 17th, 2009 by The Editor
Congratulations to Australia’s The Amity Affliction for making Severed Ties, one of the few post-hardcore records of 2009 that hasn’t annoyed the crap out of me.
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Tags: hardcore, pop, post-hardcore, punk, screamo, Severed Ties, The Amity Affliction
Published on November 21st, 2009 by Jonathan McCalmont
New reviewer Jonathan McCalmont cuts his teeth on the chilly magnificence of The Life We Have Chosen, the debut album from metalcore Scousers Carcer City.
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Tags: Carcer City, hardcore, metal, metalcore, The Life We Have Chosen