Blacklisted

This edition of 'In Defense of the Genre' looks at the type of dark, heavy, melodic hardcore defined in the 2000s by bands like American Nightmare, Modern Life Is War, and The Hope Conspiracy, which once again is having a comeback.

Staticlone includes three members of Blacklisted including vocalist George Hirsch, and it's a little rawer and grimier than their previous band, taking influence from Discharge, Motörhead, Nausea, Misfits/Samhain, and more...

The hardcore/metalcore supergroup's debut album is coming in June via Closed Casket Activities and you can hear the first single now.

Morbus Chron offshoot Sweven, The Black Dahlia Murder, Khemmis (Dio cover), Zeus! + Mike Patton (Cramps cover), Eye Flys, ACxDC, and more...

Listen to new songs by Ride (remixes), Local H, Days N Daze, The Rentals, Anna Burch, Johanna Warren, Nap Eyes, Justin Timberlake/Anderson .Paak, and more.

Back in the fall, New York krishnacore greats 108 began teasing 2016 shows, and now some have been announced. They'll play one in Cambridge and two in Brooklyn this ...

Atlanta venue The Masquerade celebrates its 25th anniversary this year with the inaugural Wrecking Ball Festival. The lineup was just announced and its loaded with punk and punk-related bands from several generations, including Descendents, Judge, Desaparecidos, The Get Up Kids, The Movielife, Title Fight, Modern Life Is War, American Nightmare, Samiam, Braid, The Appleseed Cast, Knapsack, Thrice, Glassjaw, Blacklisted, Small Brown Bike, Cave In, The Lawrence Arms, Pianos Become The Teeth, Yuck, Beach Slang, Girlpool, Frankie Cosmos and so ...

Philly hardcore experimenters Blacklisted already appeared at This Is Hardcore, Deathwish Fest, and a NYC one-off this year, and now they've got two more shows scheduled for 2014: one in NYC and one in Phi...

Converge at Saint Vitus, May 2013 (more by Lukas Hodge) Deathwish Inc.'s inaugural Deathwish Fest announced that it will be switching venues, moving down the street from the Sinclair in Cambridge, MA to Cambridge go-to The Middle East Downstairs, a bigger venue that allows for the two-day event to be all ages...

Blacklisted at Cake Shop in 2010 (more by Brian Reilly) Boston hardcore traditionalists The Rival Mob, Philly boundary pushers Blacklisted, World War 4 (fronted by Mark Porter of NJHC band Floorpunch, plus other members of that band, The Rival Mob, and more), and Wilkes-Barre straightedge band Stick Together (whose lineup includes Ned Russin of Title Fight, plus members of War Hungry and Bad Seed) all played This Is Hardcore in Philly last year, and they'll soon team back up for what will be a very solid quadruple bill in NYC on June 7 at Le Poisson Rouge (co-presented for that show are on sa...