Tag Archives: hardcore

08/22/2018 · 8:10 pm

Beastie Boys

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Tagged as 1980s, 1986, 1989, 1990s, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2000s, 2011, Adam Horovitz, Adam Yauch, alternative music, Bands I Useta Like, Beastie Boys, Cheap Trick, comic, DJ Hurricane, DJ Shadow, Dweezil Zappa, Eric Bobo, Fatboy Slim, Fight Club, Frank Zappa, Groove Holmes, hardcore, hip hop, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy Smith, Little Ceasar's, Mike Diamond, music, Prefuse 73, strips, The Ben Stiller Show, The Dust Brothers, turntables

02/04/2017 · 12:13 am

The Freeze

How come so few folks know about The Freeze? Punk rock band, formed in Cape Cod, 1978? Come on, the lead singer called himself Cliff Hanger! (“Rob Decradle” played guitar!)

It’s a shame they’re so obscure, but on the other hand, it works to their advantage in these times of prefabricated rebellion. They made fantastic, inspired punk rock, and they came from Cape Cod! Of all places!

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Tagged as 1970s, 1978, 1980s, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1990s, 1992, Boston, Cape Cod, Dead Kennedys, depression, despair, hardcore, Massachusetts, Maximum Rocknroll, music, suicide, The Freeze, The Germs, underground

04/10/2016 · 6:55 pm

Quicksand

What, you’ve never heard of Quicksand? Post-hardcore band out of New York, early nineties?

Okay. Here’s the best song of 1993, and why some of us didn’t care about Nirvana and grunge.

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Tagged as 1993, 1995, Gorilla BIscuits, hardcore, Nirvana, PolyGram, post-hardcore, Primus, Quicksand, Sausage, Sergio Vega, Walter Schriefels

08/14/2015 · 10:05 pm

Bad Religion

This is probably one of the “first batch”, and it’s the first that got me hate mail. The Subhumans fan from the opening panel is M.I.A.; last I heard he may no longer be extant. Unfortunately I think Endora’s Emporium of Savannah is long gone. In the early ’90s, that was a place where I pawned CDs. It took me a few years to move up to actual pawn shops. I’ve pretty much never been comfortable dealing with other people. I think that really comes across in the sparse, robotic text I typically used in the captions of early BIULs like this one. Continue reading →