Hardcore G.A.S. (Gear And Style) is back. The brainchild of my old friend Andrew Monserrate from the NYHC band Stand Proud. A few years back he pitched the idea of doing “guitar magazine style interviews… but for hardcore musicians”. I love working together on these with Andrew every few months as he gets really excited about doing them... and to be honest I love the change of pace with the types of questions we collaborate on. This time around we got Chuck Lenihan for you. Best known for his work with the Crumbsuckers who came out of Long Island in ...

Hardcore G.A.S. (Gear and Style) returns with Rob Kabula who has played bass on some iconic NYHC releases including the Cause For Alarm EP (1983), Agnostic Front's "Victim In Pain" (1984) and "Cause For Alarm" (1986) albums. In 1996 Rob would go on to form Against The Grain which would later morph into Dead Blow Hammer who are still very active today having just completed a short run of shows in Italy. Andrew Monserrate contributed to this article with questions as well as the "G.A.S." artwork. Lead photo which shows Rob at CBGB's in 2002 (using Mike Gallo's bass) taken ...

Hardcore G.A.S (Gear And Style) is back with Pete Koller from NYHC legends Sick Of It All. In this series hatched from the brain of Andrew Monserrate we track down musicians to pick their brains about the particular gear they use. Sick Of It All has been a staple in the hardcore scene for decades and we were very happy to have Pete give us some inside info on how the SOIA machine works! Pete answered these questions in early January, 2024.  Lead photo by Danielle Dombrowski. Questions by Andrew Monserrate and CW.    IE: So how old were you ...

August 2023 "Hardcore G.A.S." interview with Parris Mayhew Welcome to the first installment of “H.C. G.A.S.” which stands for “Hardcore Gear And Style”. My old friend Andrew Monserrate from the band Stand Proud (they were on the 1989 New Breed Cassette Compilation) recently got in touch with me telling me his idea how he wanted to see interviews with musicians from the hardcore punk scene where they talk more about their instruments, amps, strings, how songs come together etc. The feeling was that there are “big rock” magazines out there that do this very thing BUT not so much within ...