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...Closed just a few years ago after some particularly rowdy hardcore punk shows, the Elks Lodge was open again on this night for a different assortment of DIY (do-it-yourself) music, including the frenzied punk rock of Foreign Objects and Libyans—whose singers pinballed back and forth among the assembled audience—and the heavy sludge of California’s In Disgust, who set the entire building vibrating and part of the crowd slam dancing...
...Boston is kind of unapologetically hardcore,” says John Bogan of the band Daniel Striped Tiger. And though Boston hardcore is sometimes associated with violence and insularity, there is also a more diverse and welcoming community of DIY punk, hardcore, and post-hardcore bands like Bogan’s that has long been open to a small group of Harvard students like Humphreville. These punk rockers, despite occupying a peripheral position on campus, have been central players in the scene...
...kind of reacted against that, that the music had gotten too commercial and lost its punk roots,” says Peter F. Rojas ’97, now an internet entrepreneur who helped create both Engadget and the independent-minded RCRD LBL. “We were more interested in bands that weren’t trying to cross over from college rock...
...that dedication to local punk music—most of Rojas’s friends, he says, came from Boston, not Harvard—had begun to fade by the time Zachary I. Baron ’04-’05 arrived at RH, which he says was then in “a wussier phase.” “It was kind of a nerdy, stand-offish, hostile group that kind of looked down at other people,” says Baron, now an editor at the Village Voice. For him, that group represented...
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...