TRAPPED UNDER ICE’S JUSTICE TRIPP: THE METALSUCKS INTERVIEW
Without question, Trapped Under Ice is one of the biggest bands in hardcore today, an impressive coup given their relative newcomer status compared with established scene leaders like Hatebreed, Madball, and Terror. Through hard work, hard touring, and undeniable talent, the Baltimore band have somehow managed to fight their way to the top riding the wave of their 2009 game-changing LP Secrets Of The World. Their forthcoming follow-up, the ominously titled Big Kiss Goodnight, has already garnered considerable excitement among hardcore fans. A few days prior to this past weekend’s This Is Hardcore festival (review here), I seized the opportunity to speak in depth with TUI frontman Justice Tripp about the new album. That interview is available for your enjoyment below the cut.
To truly get a sense of what hardcore looks, sounds, and smells like today, one could hardly do better than to have attended this past weekend’s aptly-named 
Skin Like Iron, Arrival (React!)
Black Flag will never reunite in any form that even remotely satisfies its generations of fans. But perhaps the coolest 
A year ago, this site published 
Two weeks ago, I reported on the 
No stranger to controversy, hardcore punk icon Jello Biafra seems to have once again caused a bit of a stir, though not in a way that he’d otherwise like. His band 
At this year’s Black N Blue Bowl, performers gave shout-outs to Trapped Under Ice so consistently that it became absurd that the Baltimore hardcore act wasn’t even playing the event. (They did play a rather memorable set at last year’s fest.) The band’s rise can only be described as meteoric these past couple years, but apparently that’s not enough for these guys. Drummer Brendan Yates fronts the 
Back in late April, we were thrilled to provide the 
Agnostic Front. Blind Approach. Madball. Guitarist Matt Henderson made his mark on all of them, and in doing so, on the still-thriving institution that is hardcore. It seems downright criminal that his name isn’t mentioned in the same sentence as Greg Ginn, given that most bands in the scene these days sound more like 90s Madball than Black Flag. Not that it matters to Matt, mind you, as I learned in my chat with this down-to-earth guy. Industry-hardened yet still affable, he’s more interested in 
If you’ve been to a hardcore show in, say, the past fifteen years, chances are that at least one band on the bill played a cover song made famous by another hardcore act. It’s a surefire way to get a pit going even if your band’s original material sucks. Fortunately, H2O and Skarhead, two bands that most certainly do not suck, have decided to pay respects to their hardcore predecessors with respective covers albums. H2O just entered the studio this week to begin work on Don’t Forget Your Roots (a title that H2O fans will smirk at given the anthemic “Family Tree”), which will feature their interpretations of The Ramones, Dag Nasty, Madball, Rancid, Circle Jerks, Descendents, Cro-Mags, Bad Brains, The Clash, Government Issue, Verbal Assault, Gorilla Biscuits, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, 7 Seconds, Embrace, Social Distortion, Sick of It All and Warzone.
In a scene where yearly festivals are as abundant as they are sweaty, 
May 18, 2011 – The amount of emotional damage in the Gramercy Theatre last night could fill an orphanage, with large bespectacled women and bleached blonde cardboard cutouts hardly co-mingling with stumbling drug casualties, rock n roll wannabees with overzealous intoxicated girlfriends, and Brads-from-Accounting, along with a morose minority of pitiable sad sacks. Evidently, Scott Weiland’s fanbase is a lot less glamorous and enviable than rock and fashion magazines let on.
Axl’s somewhat recent post on kiddie-pop starlet 
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