American Hardcore

[Cdn_Brdr]

If you're a fan of punk or hardcore music today you owe it to yourself to check out this movie. Hands down one of the best collections of information about the era that took the music we love into what it is today.

The flick seriously doesn't miss a thing.... the rise of the scene in every city and the bands that started it all.

D.O.A, 7 Seconds, Black Flag, SS Decontrol, Cro-Mags, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, The Adolescents, Teen Idles, Gang Green, Battalion of Saints, Agnostic Front, Circle Jerks, MDC, Suicidal Tendencies.... the list goes on and on.

Extremely well done, lots of live footage, and generally just a cool look inside what drove these bands to do what they loved.

I highly recommend checking it out.

American Hardcore



THEN READ THE BOOK

[tiedye]

I've been wanting to see this for awhile. I'm glad real Hardcore is getting attention after all of these nu-wave 'Hardcore' bands taking the spotlight from an earth-shaking scene movement.

[cubed]

I've been trying to find a copy of this everywhere.

I think I'll hit up blackdog on my way home.

[hardstylin]

Originally Posted by tiedye

I've been wanting to see this for awhile. I'm glad real Hardcore is getting attention after all of these nu-wave 'Hardcore' bands taking the spotlight from an earth-shaking scene movement.

whats a new wave hardcore band?

[tiedye]

Oh, and incase I didn't get my point across:

Fuck modern Hardcore.

[hardstylin]

Originally Posted by tiedye

Oh, and incase I didn't get my point across:

Fuck modern Hardcore.

what is modern hardcore?

[decypher]

remember when AFI called themselves hardcore with that shrill screech and their "east-bay hardcore" sweatshirts ......then they turned emo-goth-pop.

I was a big fan of suicidal tendencies and actually got to seem them live once.

[hardstylin]

'God Called In Sick Today'

[tiedye]

Originally Posted by hardstylin

whats a new wave hardcore band?

Evergreen Terrace is a prime example.

[tiedye]

Mind you, there are still some killer bands out there... it's all those other bands that give me yet another reason not to stop on MuchMusic to see what kids these days are listening to.

[tiedye]

Alexisonfire. Fuck I hate that band.

[hardstylin]

Originally Posted by tiedye

Alexisonfire. Fuck I hate that band.

ya hate punk music. old and new :)

i cant stand alexisonfire either they remind me of neckbeard :)

[tiedye]

I didn't mind Neckbeerd, but I was also what? 13 when they were doing gigs here? Even younger maybe?

I think you'd like Brett's work in Mass Grave a lot more.

[Cdn_Brdr]

Modern hardcore/punk is not all bad.... you need to open your ears man!

Terror, Throwdown, Madball, Hatebreed, Hazen St., Converge, A Life Once Lost, A Static Lullaby, Bane, Every Time I Die, Hot Rod Circuit, Kids Like Us (CRAZY FUCKING GOOD), Most Precious Blood, The Bronx, The Bled, Walls of Jericho, Bleeding Through.... I could keep going if you'd like :)

[Cdn_Brdr]

Originally Posted by cubed

I've been trying to find a copy of this everywhere.

I think I'll hit up blackdog on my way home.

They're selling them previously viewed at all the Rogers Video stores in town....

[tiedye]

I dig Hatebreed's thrashy stuff a lot.. they've got a killer vibe in their music. Walls of Jericho could use some more technical vocals, but their instrumental work is solid as fuck. Like I said, there are still some bands out there I'll listen to.

[Cdn_Brdr]

^Then your blanket statement of 'fuck modern hardcore' is definitely wrong :)

You should take it back.... you really should

[Grapes]

Me and gnosis just missed seeing this in theaters.

Rental is imminent!

[Grapes]

Originally Posted by Cdn_Brdr

^Then your blanket statement of 'fuck modern hardcore' is definitely wrong :)

You should take it back.... you really should

I don't know anything much about modern hardcore, but my experience has often been that if you hate on a genre, it's because of one of two things:

1) The type of music just isn't for you

2) You haven't looked hard enough

90% of the time it's the latter.

[tiedye]

Originally Posted by Cdn_Brdr

^Then your blanket statement of 'fuck modern hardcore' is definitely wrong :)

You should take it back.... you really should

My blanket statement stands. A few exceptions doesn't make me any less cold towards the genre, pun intended. Besides.. the genre is so mudded with bands with so many different sounds that when I say Hardcore, I'm talking about the direct descendants of the original Hardcore movement. Not bands like Hatebreed and Walls of Jericho which are obviously derived from metal.

[tiedye]

Like I said, it's bands like Evergreen Terrace that I consider modern Hardcore. Just because a band is hardcore, doesn't mean they're Hardcore. . . . err... yeah.

[Cdn_Brdr]

Well if you took the time to listen before you judged you'd find that many of the hot bed cities that hardcore originated in still have very vibrant scenes that have carried on.

Boston, LA, DC, NYC.... hell a lot of 'modern' hardcore bands have members that belonged to some of the pioneer bands that you praise so highly. The genre itself has hardly lost it's edge. True hardcore is still as angry and in-your-face as it always was. Bands still feel like they have something to stand up for.

I'll give you the fact that a lot of hardcore kids are cheesy scenesters but the movement itself is far from dead.

[Grapes]

A few exceptions doesn't make me any less cold towards the genre

How many would?

[tiedye]

That, my friend... is why sub-genres are necessary. I should have stuck with the term Nu-Wave Hardcore as opposed to Modern Hardcore. Either way, I think you can tell that I was getting at the modern sound as opposed to the traditional sound. There is still the odd metal band that comes out that slaughters my ear drums and I really dig that... but I strongly dislike Nu-Metal bands. Same thing.

[tiedye]

Originally Posted by Grapes

How many would?

Let's say 14 for the sake of this pointless arguement. :)

I'd also like to say that a lot of my friends are into this nu-wave shit and I don't mind one bit.