IN EFFECT SHORTS #4. DEAN & KENT MILLER OF NO REDEEMING SOCIAL VALUE. POSTED JANUARY 24, 2026 GRAPHICS BY: PAUL TURANO   

Straight Ahead were a short lived NYHC band that featured Tommy Carroll on vocals, Craig Setari on bass, Rob Echeverria on guitar and Armand Majidi on drums. They got their start in 1986, released a handful of songs and played a small amount of shows during their short-lived run which ended in 1988. There has […]

GUESSED WRONG, LONG ISLAND, NY Guessed Wrong are yet another up and coming Long Island Hardcore band who totally qualify as “fresh blood” having released their debut 4 song demo in October and who also have played a total of 5 shows at the time we are running this. Their demo absolutely crushes and I […]

 

 

LOVE SICK, LONG ISLAND, NY  On August 30th of this year there was a free Long Island Hardcore showcase show at the Massapequa VFW. Nine bands played, most of them would be considered new to very new. The turnout was insane as an entire train station parking lot that is always completely empty on the […]

CANNONBALL “S/T” (Youngblood Records, Released October, 2025) Christmas has come early!!! and by that I mean X-Mas, and by X-Mas I mean XXX-Mas. Yes indeed, the Don of In Effect has given this loyal soldier a release from the incredible, PA based Youngblood Records. That release is the new self-titled LP from Sheffield, UK’s own […]

New York’s Point Blank are a hard-working blue collar hardcore band who have been at it now for 11 years. Their new full-length album “Back To Square One” is out now on WTF Records (NL) on vinyl as well as CD. We caught up with their guitarist Danny Derella and vocalist Ken “KWE” Wagner to […]

AWKWARD THOUGHT LIVE ON CRUCIAL CHAOS WNYU FEBRUARY 29, 1996 AWKWARD THOUGHT LIVE SHOTS (TAKEN AT THE SPIRAL & CBGB’S IN NYC SINCE NO KNOWN SHOTS OF THE WNYU SET EXIST) PROVIDED BY AWKWARD THOUGHT GUITARIST SCOOT HORTON  I had personally been going to the Crucial Chaos radio show since the early 1990’s just to hang […]

  UK Hardcore crew False Reality are making all the right noises for UK hardcore right now. The band who are made up of Rachel Rigby (vocals), Joe Cornwell (bass), Louis Dale (drums) and David Connolly (guitars), have just dropped their latest album “Faded Intentions” and it is a collection of songs that salutes the […]