Peter WoodburnOne of the best aspects of Musicfest NW is its intimate club settings. Whereas most music festivals are synonymous with enormous outdoor stages designed to fit tens of thousands of people, Portland sticks to its quirky Portland roots and packs...
Kid Dynamite recently reunited (again) for a set for This is Hardcore Fest. Here’s the video, courtesy of those scoundrels over at Hate5Six.com.
Kid Dynamite (Full Set) from hate5six on Vimeo.
Comadre came through Seattle with Glasses from Germany and local metal heroes Black Breath. In this video, the band plays their smash-and-grab take on skramz and hardcore. The songs in this part of the set are “Count Basie Box Set,”...
Ceremony are a hard band to lump into a simple genre. The quartet is not quite just straight hardcore, although vocalist Ross Farrar’s barking style suggests it; they aren’t just straight punk rock, although the three chord riffs suggest...
Acid Tiger have something to strut, for sure. Their self-titled debut, featuring Ben Koller from Converge on the drums, is a psychedelic mind trick — equal parts funky riffs, southern rock, and progressive rock all jumbled together in a mind...
Boy, was I fooled. Nails album, Unsilent Death, comes with two pieces of name dropping: Kurt Ballou and Todd Jones. Recorded by Ballou at God City Studios, Nails also features Jones (ex-Terror) on guitars and vocals. The ex-Terror tag prepped me for...
Allen HuangWhether you hated them or loved them, in the early 00’s, The Blood Brothers were THE It Band of the hardcore scene. Wild, uncontrollable, unpredictable, and highly intelligent, the band quickly amassed a devoted following, praised by the die...
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