Lou Koller

”Having Lou on this song is an absolute honor. I could hear his voice while I was writing it and as a lifelong Sick Of It All fan, it really is a dream come true.”

It's the latest edition of Mikey and His Uke's pandemic-era punk cover series.

Napalm Death member Shane Embury has re-activated his 1993 project Blood From The Soul (originally a collaboration with Sick Of It All's Lou Koller), now fronted by Converge's J Bannon and featuring members of Megadeth and Nasum...

The awesome playlist includes songs from multiple generations, from Black Sabbath to Motorhead to Bad Brains to Orange 9mm to Bikini Kill to AFI to G.L.O.S.S. and more...

”That scene in New York has this incorrect reputation whereby people are unapproachable: tough, mean, too cool, whatever,” Chris Carrabba writes. ”That's not real. What's real is that they deserve respect for being pioneers, and building a scene that would spread across the nation and the world.”

The SOIA frontman's list includes fellow NYHC legends Madball, cool newer bands like Candy and Turnstile, Eminem, and more.

Openers at Bowery were the The Type O Negative related project Silvertomb, and Vessel of Light (members of Ancient VVisdom and Hades) who were playing their first-ever live show. Speaking of firsts, these new shows will be the first time Sick of It All and LOA share a stage.

After a screening of Hardcore VHS II: In-Effect Live in N.Y.C. ’91, Agnostic Front’s Vinnie Stigma, Sick Of It All’s Lou Koller, and Gorilla Biscuits’ Walter Schreifels stuck around for an interesting, revelatory, and funny Q&A. Video of the whole thing is now out...

The 'Music Driven' series continues at Williamsburg's Nitehawk TONIGHT (3/28) with a screening of 'Hardcore VHS II: In-Effect Live in N.Y.C. '91' and a Q&A with Walter Schreifels and Lou Koller. The series continues in April with a Nick Cave film and May with a Slits film and Q&A...

Let's cut to it. I like Refused. The Shape of Punk to Come is a good record, though not quite the benchmark that its namesake suggests...