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Go hard or go home: why is hardcore punk enjoying a renaissance?

The success of Manchester’s Outbreak festival shows the appetite for the genre isn’t just healthy, it’s on the rise. Its organisers discuss the scene’s evolution, its fragility, and its (very loud) future

The Guardian - UK

"We were something you couldn’t cage. You’d get skinheads beating the crap outta each other in front of the stage." The chaotic story of Misfits’ horror-punk classic Earth A.D./Wolfsblood

1983’s Earth A.D./Wolsblood album showed off Misfits at their fastest and most vicious – but it would become their gravestone

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"MTV was the first time that technology became a rock star": The story of 1984, the year everything changed

Sitting between the heritage of the 70s and the glitzy, big-haired peak to which the 80s would ascend, 1984 was a quietly pivotal time for music, popular culture and the world as we knew it

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“These rebels are our own children… who masquerade at night in leather and chains yet retreat by the light of day back into the fabric of our society”: watch US TV show Tomorrow investigate the dark side of punk rock in America in 1980

Blood! Mohawks! Nazi salutes! In 1980, NBC’s The Tomorrow Show took a solemn, sober and unwittingly hilarious look at hardcore punk

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How Rage Against the Machine Used Capitalism To Sell Communism

A calculated corporate deal propelled these radical rockers all the way to the Hall of Fame.

Reason

Mike Silva: ‘I wanted to paint with the viscerality of Black Flag – but I can’t do it’

Raised on punk, the artist tried to channel that aggression into painting – but instead found himself arriving at a quiet, reflective style that has more in common with Nick Drake

The Guardian - UK

10 terrible punk albums with one classic song

These punk albums are stinkers that only a mother could truly love, but each features one redeeming, gleaming diamond in the dirt

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Loving the new Avenged Sevenfold album? Here are the 10 records you need to listen to next

From glitching electronics to unpredictable prog and heavy metal theatrics, ...Life Is But A Dream is an absolute trip. If you're enjoying it, here's where to go next

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‘This is our life’: The Punk Rock Museum opens in Vegas

LAS VEGAS — “Warning, beware of Detroit.”

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"New York in the '80s was lawless and f**ked-up": How heroin, hardcore and a headless corpse inspired Unsane's insane early adventures in Gotham

Unsane vocalist/guitarist Chris Spencer revisits the NYC noise rock band's formative years ahead of their upcoming Early Cuts European tour

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A beginner's guide to hardcore in five essential albums

Over four decades since its birth, hardcore punk remains in rude health. From Black Flag to Turnstile, here are the albums that have defined it

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Henry Rollins: ‘I wouldn’t go back on stage with a band for anything’

The writer, actor and legendary punk musician answers your questions on working with William Shatner and Al Pacino, the joy of lifting weights and Leeds’ best onion bhajis

The Guardian - UK

Self-belief and gelatinous noise: the greatest work of late punk hero Glen ‘Spot’ Lockett

Spot, who has died aged 71, went from rollerskating jazz head to in-house producer for SST Records, home to Black Flag, Hüsker Dü and more – and defined the expansive sound of US punk

The Guardian - UK

Post your questions for Henry Rollins

Before his Good to See You tour kicks off in the UK, sends us your questions for the spoken-word performer and former Black Flag frontman

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9 years later, the best pirate game ever still hasn't been topped

Nine years ago Ubisoft released the best pirate game ever made, and took a bold risk with one of its best-known series.

Bangkok Post

Punk hero turns to the spoken word

As part of his "Good to See You" spoken word tour, the punk rock legend Henry Rollins is making his way to Southeast Asia and making a stop in Bangkok for a one-night-only show on Oct 21 at King Power Aksra Theatre.

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