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Black N' Blue Bowl announces full lineup, tix on sale (Earth Crisis, the Bad Brains/Cro-Mags band & more added)
The previously-mentioned annual NYC hardcore festival Black N’ Blue Bowl takes place on May 16 & 17 at Webster Hall this year, and now the complete lineup and ticket info has been revealed…
Crumbsuckers reuniting again for Black & Blue Bowl (which added more bands); United Blood Fest lineup announced
Like New York City contemporaries such as Agnostic Front and the Cro-Mags, the Crumbsuckers were one of the original purveyors of 1980s crossover: the bridging of metal and hardcore that temporarily united the two divergent tribes of metalheads and punks into one bloody unified mosh pit…
New England Hardcore & Metal Festival adds The Red Chord, Code Orange, The Atlas Moth & more to lineup
As discussed, the New England Hardcore and Metal Festival is returning to Worcester, MA from April 17-19, and since we last spoke more acts have been announced…
Black N' Blue Bowl 2015 initial lineup, dates, venue
Annual NYC hardcore fest Black N’ Blue Bowl is returning in 2015 on May 16 and 17 at Webster Hall, and the initial lineup is announced. It includes NYHC veterans Sick of It All, as well as Turnstile, Agents of Man, Wisdom In Chains, Suburban Scum, Heavy Chains, Mizery, 100 Demons, Bitter End, Crumbsuckers, Expire, Freedom, King Nine and Rude Awaken…
Damaged City Fest and New England Metal & Hardcore Fest initial lineups
Testament on the Motorhead Motorboat in October (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin)
A couple of stacked east-coast hardcore/metal festivals have recently announced their lineups…
Sick Of It All celebrated their new LP with H2O, Wisdom In Chains & White Collar Crime @ Irving (pics, review, setlists)
Saturday October 4 marked my 14 year anniversary of living in this overpriced hellhole we call New York City. In honor of yours truly and this personal milestone, New York City hardcore veterans Sick of it All headlined a sick quadruple bill at a very packed Irving Plaza…
Agnostic Front, Sick of It All, Cro-Mags & more playing East Coast Tsunami Fest; NYHC book coming
Agnostic Front at Power of the Riff, 2012 (more by Greg Cristman)
After saving This is Hardcore Fest by filling in, Agnostic Front sit atop the first round of announced bands at East Coast Tsunami Fest 2014…
Sick Of It All announce LP & show with H2O; This is Hardcore underway in Philly (related NYC shows this weekend too)
Sick Of It All at Rev25 (more by Rebecca Reed)
NYHC vets Sick Of It All have announced that they’ll release their tenth album, The Last Act of Defiance, on September 30 (album art and tracklist below), and will play a hometown show soon after that on October 4 at Irving Plaza with fellow NYC punk vets H2O as well as Pennsylvania’s Wisdom In Chains and White Collar Crime …
Madball releasing 'Hardcore Lives' (listen to "Doc Marten Stomp" +++ tour dates & upcoming related shows)
“They’ve been talking us down for so long, I almost started to believe them all.”
Those are Madball singer Freddy Cricien’s first unassisted words on new single “Doc Marten Stomp…
Ice-T keeping Body Count alive, announces new album & NYC record release show
The “legendary” Body Count, Ice-T’s rap metal group known primarily for upsetting old white men in the early ’90s, are releasing a new record…
