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SATURDAY: Although D.C. rappers have struggled over the past few decades to leave a mark on American hip-hop our hardcore scene has been consistently fertile.

Oh, sweet 7-inch slabs of vinyl. Brings back such nice memories of misspent youth, days forking over allowance money to the mail-order gods who delivered heaven in the form of singles from Minor Threat , Government Issue or Black Flag .

$20-$25. 8:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 6. Variety Playhouse, 1099 Euclid Ave. 404-524-7354. www.variety-playhouse.com. The first time I saw the Jesus Lizard play was Oct.

At its '80s peak, hardcore was a lot of things: controversial, confrontational, positive, nihilistic, pointed, and cathartic.

"I'm not sure. I guess it is because of our name." This is the simple answer offered by guitarist and vocalist Manabu Deto when asked why his band, the Nagano-bred postpunkers Ogre You Asshole, have gigged alongside more than three dozen foreign underground and alt-rock acts during their Japan visits, making them one of the most sought after local ...

Home : Features : Movies : 'Edge' Documentary Sets Audiences Straight 'Edge' Documentary Sets Audiences Straight 12-Oct-2009 Written by: Robyn Chelsea-Seifert Documentary explores the drug free counterculture known as straight edge.

Recently there has been a lot of attention directed at the Straight Edge movement, accompanied by discussion of whether that movement is a brotherhood promoting a positive lifestyle, or a gang of violent vigilantes.

Henry Rollins, the iconic former frontman of the punk-rock band Black Flag, who will be performing at Sacramento State on Thursday, tried college and decided it wasn't for him.

SlitstitchBob, guitars/vocals Sometimes, it's easy to hate the bands that sort of knocked audiences' ideas of punk rock into tiny categories: The bands such as Green Day and Third Eye Blind that pushed it squarely into the pop arena, sure, but even the amazing bands such as Minor Threat and Black Flag, who defined the hardcore sound so much that ...

Fair Ohs a ' Almost Island A south London trio trying to contain the blast from the "bomb in the baby carriage" Paul Simon sang about.

Indie Wax Records, located on 5922 Market St. in Youngstown, carries a wide selection of brand-new indie vinyl releases.

The Subhumans are a political punk band from Britain who were first active in the 80s, but whose back catalog of six albums has now been re-mastered and released in the United States.

Artvoice's weekly round-up of events to watch out for the week, including our editor's pick: Kevin Seconds, who plays the Town Ballroom on Tuesday the 25th.

To read past installments of South Florida According to Brooklyn, click here . I attended the local stop of the Warped Tour, on Saturday, July 25 at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, and was disappointed that no one really watched Bad Religion.

To read past installments of South Florida According to Brooklyn, click here . I attended the local stop of the Warped Tour, on Saturday, July 25 at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, and was disappointed that no one really watched Bad Religion.

It's curious, sometimes, how tastes change. When Joe Principe was first working to put together the band that would become Rise Against, about 10 years ago, there weren't many groups that mixed fast-paced hard rock with just a tinge of melody, not in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago.

To read past installments of South Florida According to Brooklyn, click here . I attended the local stop of the Warped Tour, on Saturday, July 25 at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, and was disappointed that no one really watched Bad Religion.

From dying her hair black to her new rock 'n' roll style , Kristen Stewart is really getting into character.

Resolutely independent filmmaker Jem Cohen and special guests musician Ian MacKaye and John Cohen present an evening of screenings and discussion exploring folk, punk and underground filmmaking as forms of homemade expression.

O n paper, this doc looks like it's got lots of potential. After all, it's not every day we get to hear Noam Chomsky, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, Minor Threat/Fugazi's Ian Mackaye and the Minutemen's Mike Watt wax poetic on the importance of the independent record store.