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Since it first reared its head in 1977, punk rock hasn’t come in waves so much as infesations, swarms, plagues of cockroaches. When their way of life destabilized (post-punk, new wave, etc.), the faithful foraged underground to found hardcore??itself the ancestor of pop music’s most violent and dissonant iterations. The lineup and the skulls shaking in the crowd may change, but, beyond all hope and all disaster, punk rock survives.Its survival derives from its credibility, and its credibility, after more than 30 years, derives from its sense of iconoclasm...
...bunch of college kids, the music scene is something that anybody can do, and what anyone should think they have the privilege to do.” In November 2005, Hufstedler and David A. Rios ’07, who also comprise the “noise and hardcore?? duo The Facts We Hate, began the Harvard College Alliance for Rock and Roll. The organization aims to increase accessibility to the music scene and music resources on campus. Hufstedler is also an activist. She is an outspoken member of the Radcliffe Union of Students and the Trans Task...
...yourself music scene is in many ways as marginalized today as it was in the early 1980s. While “Hardcore?? is right to point out that bands like Black Flag and Minor Threat laid the groundwork for the distributed national network of underground musicians that persists to this day, misplaced scene nostalgia (two points for anyone who can name more than five good bands on SST Records) comes at the expense of real support for today’s struggling bands...
...indie rock scene that followed in hardcore??s wake brought a new accessibility to a previously confrontational subculture, and it didn’t take long for the money to follow. Today, sophisticated delivery mechanisms like “as-hip-as-thou” promoters, trendy CMJ (College Music Journal) festivals in NYC, Pitchfork Media, and a whole heavenly host of scene architecture means that it’s easier than ever for patch-toting suburbanites to stay “scene...
...these years—the N.E.S.T. bands are still playing at hole-in-the-wall clubs in Somerville and Allston and charging $10+ a ticket for 18+ shows. If those prices seem low to you, it’s going to take more than “American Hardcore?? to change your outlook...