Cro-Mags News

Punk band reunion tours are each unique . . . but not like snowflakes, more like small-town Fourth of July parades, in that it's a constant trade-off between reassuring familiarity and the flinching overcompensation of old people with streamers.

Sure, bands like Agnostic Front and Cro-Mags established the essential blueprint for the merging of metal and hardcore that came to be dubbed "metalcore," but bands like the Connecticut-based Hatebreed took the punishing riffs and back-to-basics breakdowns out of the VFW halls and to the Ozzfest and MTV masses.

Seattle's Iron Lung swung by Cake Shop on 11/8 to put the finishing touches on a tour that included dates at The Fest 8 in Florida a few weeks prior, and Fucked Up 's Fucked Up Weekend 2009 with fellow Cake Shop performers Mind Eraser and Nomos , Burning Love , Career Suicide , and even Metric ). Pittsburgh's Brain Handle also came in to batter the ...

Salvation was there Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass at the powerHouse Arena.

HardTimes.ca has uploaded video footage of CRO-MAGS ' November 1, 2009 performance at the Underworld in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

This local five-person jazz group led by Jeremy Strachan, featuring collaborators from Feuermusik, Fond of Tigers, Woodchoppers Association and more, celebrates its debut Potential Things .

Toronto's favourite underdog hardcore group, Fucked Up, is all set to soak the city in loud music, whiskey and onstage costumed perversion at the fourth annual Fucked Up Fest.

Breaking news: bands are bands because of their love for other bands. It's true.

The name Weekend Nachos seems to imply some kind-of frivolity or a college keg party with loafers and khakis aplenty.