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 […]

BRAINWASHED PHILADELPHIA, PA Brainwashed are an old-school style hardcore band out of Philadelphia, PA that should be on your radar if they aren’t already. This band got started in October of 2023 and have already played about 25 shows. Their self-titled debut came out in June of 2024 and their “Bloodbath” EP came out this […]

In my eyes Trouble Bound out of NY’s Hudson Valley are an extremely underrated band who should be household names in the realm of punk rock households… Granted they came out of a long hiatus not too long ago but have ramped up operations over the last 12-18 months which included the “Broken Ribs & […]

Excel out of Venice, CA got their start way back in the 1980’s and in 2025 it is pretty damn cool to report that they are not only still around but working on new music as well. Their studio album history sports two fan favorites in 1987’s “Split Image” and 1989’s “The Joke’s On You”, […]

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Long Island NY’s Overthrow have been back at it for a couple of years now after disbanding in 2001. The desire to write new music and continue what they started “last century” was still there after they played some reunion gigs dating back to 2022. On October 3rd the band released their second full length […]

On October 17th Brooklyn music icons Biohazard return with their first new studio album in over a decade with “Divided We Fall”. The “classic” lineup with Evan Seinfeld on bass/vocals, Billy Graziadei on guitar/vocals, Bobby Hambel on guitar and Danny Schuler on drums return once again for some unfinished business. A month long tour across […]

GOOD TEAL NEW JERSEY  Good Teal out of New Jersey recently put out one of my favorite releases of 2025. They have been “teasing” us with singles as far back as October of 2023 but on August 15th the wait for the full shipment was finally over and damn did they knock this one out […]