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In 2011, the new wave of post-hardcore came into full effect with seminal albums by Touche Amore, Pianos Become the Teeth, La Dispute, Defeater, Title Fight, and more. This edition of 'In Defense of the Genre' looks back on those albums for their 10th anniversary, the overall punk landscape of 2011, and today's young bands who are starting their own new wave

The raffle includes rare test pressings from Hangman, Mizery, Rule Them All, Choice To Make, Hands of God, Section H8, Blind Justice, and more too.

It was a very Long Island, BrooklynVegan-presented show, and it also got a little Berkeley when Victory Garden covered Op Ivy and Green Day...

Hear a second track from Long Island hardcore up and comers Rule Them All's upcoming 'Dreams About...' EP for Flatspot Records.

Terror, No Warning, King Nine, Hangman, Down To Nothing, Mindforce, The Fight, Rule Them All, and a TBA special guest will open the band's very last shows.

Openers vary by date, and the New York band's final hometown show will be with King Nine, Maximum Penalty, One Step Closer, and Shackled...

Plus: Crack the Sky, Pill, Tricky, Every Time I Die, Single Mothers, and more tour news.

Suffocation going on last tour with original vocalist (with support from Cattle Decapitation), Terror touring behind new album (with Harms Way, Backtrack, and more), plus The Zombies, Fred Thomas, Caged Animals, and more tour news.

Plus: Beverly, No Age, Christine & The Queens, Snail Mail, Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor, and more just-announced tours.

Two East Coast hardcore festivals were recently announced for this April.