Stupid Karate – Lille, France. Stupid Karate have returned with their second EP, the comically dark titled Punk Is A Free Pricing Corpse. The band’s visceral break-neck Hardcore Punk is nothing but energetic. Imagine, you’ve had a hard week at work and friend drags you to a Punk show, you’re not adverse...
Barque – Lille, France. It is credible to state that when looking into influential bands and genre stylistics that Punk and its angry sibling Hardcore have done modern alternative music (and arguably music in general) a huge service. Now, if you apply this logic to Punk and Hardcore within that...
SickOnes – South West England, United Kingdom. Photography credit – Ashlea Bea Photography – Click Here. For our previous work on SickOnes – Click Here. I recently had heard that SickOnes had been labelled the ‘best Hardcore band in the South West’. In any normal case after hearing this, I...
SickOnes – Frome, England, United Kingdom. ‘This ones on us. Get. At. It.’ SickOnes are about as fresh as it gets with Hardcore. The band formed earlier in 2016 in the sleepy town of Frome just outside the City of Bath. The band’s debut release was met with much local...
Rash Decision – Falmouth, England, United Kingdom. Rash Decision were formed in Falmouth in 2006, they did the band thing for two years, had a hiatus and then came back many times the stronger in 2009. Since then, 230-odd gigs, an EP, two Splits and a full length have surfaced....
Volatile Idea – Bristol, England, United Kingdom You may remember our ‘Fresh Picks’ feature on a Hardcore band from Gloucester, England, by the name of Bar Fight. If not, you can find it by clicking Here and helping yourself to some FREE music. This is relevant because it was Volatile...
Intercourse – New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Noise-Rock-Unique-Hardcore-Noise. Hailing from New Haven, Connecticut, Intercourse are a four-piece band who roughly sit in the Noise Rock/Hardcore Punk sound-echelon. They not only blast the aforementioned styles to high hell, but add their own stamp of originality without being incomprehensible or “too much”, I.e. they...
Groezrock Festival – Meerhout, Belgium. Summoning some of the best in new, contemporary and veteran Punk, Pop-Punk, Hardcore, and Metal (among others) that this planet has to offer, 2015’s festival went off with a bang despite starting off with somewhat soggy beginnings. If you were at the festival and putting...