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May 15, 2017
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Agnostic Front, Clubber Lang, Degenerics, Ensign, For The Love Of, Indecision, Kid Dynamite, Kill Your Idols, Low End Theory, Nora, Reach The Sky, Sick Of It All, Sky Came Falling, Step Ahead, Stormshadow, Strength 691, Stretch Armstrong, The Purpose, Vision, Where Fear & Weapons Meet
The first ever benefit for Matt Leveton was in January 1999. Matt used to book shows at Manville and got seriously hurt in a car crash. These shows were a really big deal at the time and a nice showing of what can happen when the hardcore scene comes together for something good. The first day was highlighted by a reunion show for Strength 691. I remember seeing a lot of people who I had not seen in a few years, which is an odd feeling when you are 19, and hung around catching up with a lot of people.…
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May 31, 2016
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American Nightmare, Bane, Daltonic, Right Brigade, The Purpose
This was at a house but I cannot remember which one. I could never keep any of that straight. When Purpose played a few of us went off, which bummed out emos and I think a member or two of the band. That band blurred the lines between the hardcore and emo parts of NJHC a lot. Daltonic were a melodic band from Boston, I think, right, and played occasionally in the area. They were okay but not really my thing. I went outside to hang out with some people when Bane played, which is so weird because six months later…
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May 19, 2016
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Dan Hornacker, Ensign, Fastbreak, Geoff TDT, Good Riddance, Hands Tied, In My Eyes, Joe Oz, John Coltrane, Judge, Kurbjaw, Matt Smith, Nate Gluck, Sean McGrath, Shutdown, Sisters Of Mercy, Spice Girls, The Purpose, Turning Point, Weapon X, What Was Said Fanzine
This show was one of the big end of summer shows (along with Back To School Jam and the show that Gordo did) as the summer of 1997 began to wind down. We packed a crew into my car (and literally packed lunch) and headed up to the show. Weapon X would play their only show. WX had members of Ensign, Purpose, Kurbjaw, and some others and played pretty generic 1988 hardcore. They covered Turning Point and Judge. I interviewed Nate after the show. Their 7” was released in a limited edition of 200. I ended up with a handful…
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August 4, 2014
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200 North, Atari, Broken Glass Records, Carry On, Chain Of Strength, Champion, Cro-Mags, Crown Of Thornz, Crucial Response, Dead Kennedys, Down In Flames, DYS, Earth Crisisi, Esteem, Eulogy Records, Far From Breaking, Fastbreak, Forever & A Day, Grade, Havoc Records, Ignite, Kind Of Like Splitting, Last Rights, Late Night Revenge, Leeway, Let It Burn Records, Misfits, Murphy's Law, OHEV Records, One Word, Papa Roach, Parade Brigade Fanzine, Rain On The Parade, Raybeez, Reach The Sky, Redwood Records, Revelation Records, Right Brigade, Rites Of Spring, Saves The Day, Shark Attack, Shutdown, Skarhead, Soulside, Strife, Tear It Up, The Gatecrashers, The Get Up Kids, The Promise Ring, The Purpose, Thursday, Trial, True Blue, Turning Point, Twelve Tribes, Underestimated Records, Victory Records, War Zone
Issue three would be the end of Parade Brigade Fanzine and, as promised in issue two, we mostly only reviewed records that were sent to us. Boy were some of these records awful! John and I handle most of the reviews with only the Carry On and Esteem records getting both of us. Issue four would have had a Carry On interview that I think John actually did…? Our friend Ryan, who did a lot of grunt work with me getting this issue thrown together as quickly as it was, jumped in to do a few reviews as well. 200…
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January 6, 2014
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Breakdown, Ensign, Inside Out, Saves The Day, Special Forces Records, The Purpose, Vision
This show was at Aaron Leonovich’s parents house. Aaron was a nice kid a few years older than me who did Special Forces Records (who put out records by Saves The Day, Breakdown, Purpose, etc) and was around the scene for a lot of years. He did one of the early website I remember from a hardcore kid. I used to check out Talk Is Cheap every morning. This show was in a really nice neighborhood I remember hardcore kids kind of just hanging out all over the place. The basement was huge and there was plenty of room for…
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January 3, 2014
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25 Ta Life, 625 Records, 7 Seconds, 97a, A Chorus of Disapproval, Absolution, Agnostic Front, Alternative Tentacles Records, Ambassador Records, Amendment 18, Anti Heroes, Arms Reach, Atari, Automatic, Avail, Awkward Thought, Bad Brains, Bane, Beyond, Black Flag, Black Train Jack, Blackout Records, Blood For Blood, Bold, Botch, Breakdown, Breakout Records, Bridge 9 Records, Built To Last, Burn, Carry On, Chain Of Strength, Circle Jerks, Committed, Converge, Cornerstone, Coronation, Count Me Out, Creed Fanzine, Crippled Youth, Cro-Mags, Crucial Response Records, Degenerics, Distant Reach Fanzine, Doing It For The Kids Records, East Coast Empire Records, Edge Of Quarrel Fanzine, Ensign, Equal Vision Records, Excursion Records, Fastbreak, Finish Line Fanzine, First Failure Fanzine, Floorpunch, Forward Defense, Full Speed Ahead, Genuine, Good Clean Fun, Gorilla Biscuits, GPO Records, H-Street, h2o, Hands Tied, Harkonen, High Score, In Control Fanzine, In My Eyes, Indecision Records, Infest, Insted, Iron Cross, Jello Biafra, Jitsu Records, Kill Your Idols, Mad At The World Fanzine, Mainstrike, Mincing Words Fanzine, Mindsnare, Minor Threat, Minute Minder, Model American, Moondog, Mosh Of Ass Fanzine, Mouthpiece, Mugshot, Nerve Agents, Next Step, Nine Lives, No Deal Records, One Sided War, Outspoken, Path Of Resistance, Phyte Records, Price Of Silence, Project X, Punk Uprisings Records, Rancor, Reach The Sky, Redemption 87, Reflections Fanzine, Reflections Records, Reinforce, Resurrection AD Records, Revelation Records, Saves The Day, Second Choice Fanzine, Self Born, Side By Side, Siton Records, Skarhead, Slapshot, Society System DeControl, Spazz, Speak 714, Spirit Fanzine, Sportswear, Standard Issue, Step Ahead, Stormshadow, Straight Ahead, Straight Force Fanzine, Stray Bullets, Strength Approach, Strife, Strung Out, Supertouch, Talk Is Cheap Fanzine, Teamwork Records, Ten Yard Fight, Tenfold, The Faith, The Get Up Kids, The Pact, The Parting Shot, The Purpose, The Templars, The Trust, Time Flies, Toe To Toe, Token Entry, Uniform Choice, Unit Pride, Up Front, Victory Recvords, Wide Awake, Youngblood Records, Youth Brigade, Youth Of Today
We put out Parade Brigade Fanzine #1 in the spring of 1999. I have no idea what show we released it for, but I think it was at Manville Elks Lodge. Maybe. Amendment 18 Demo This band has members of a number of bands (Insted, Chorus Of Disapproval, Outspoken, etc) I had different expectations for this demo expecting more moshy stuff, but I got straight forward hardcore with interesting breakdowns. Lyrically, this isn’t as “militant,” as xChorusx was, but good all around especially “Eulogy.” I look forward to more. BW Bane Holding This Moment Equal Vision Records Bane sort of…
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September 29, 2008
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25 Ta Life, Destroy Babylon, Fastbreak, Fit For Abuse, Floorpunch, Hands Tied, In My Eyes, Little Dave, The Purpose, Vision
Destroy Babylon recently posted this video of Floorpunch playing at Manville 8-3-97. You can see me all over this! I don’t remember a ton from this show…Vision also played (really early for some reason…I think they had to leave???) and maybe The Purpose. Someone on the Livewire Board said Fastbreak too but I don’t think they did…they played Manville the next weekend with Hands Tied, In My Eyes, and some others and then the next year with Fit For Abuse (!). A lot of familiar faces in the crowd. I can see Chris Oliver, Mickey, Matt Molnar, Matt Smith, Joe…
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March 2, 2006
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97a, Agnostic Front, Atari, Autumn, Black Flag, Bold, Circle Storm, David Koenig, Earth Crisis, Ensign, Extent Fanzine, Floorpunch, Fuck You Fanzine, Hands Tied, Hardware Fanzine, McRad, Minor Threat, Mouthpiece, Over The Line, Rain On The Parade, Rancor, Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies, Teamwork Records, Tension Building Fanzine, The Purpose, The Straight Edge, Underdog, Up Front, Vegan Reich, Veganism, Vegetarianism, Victory Records, What Was Said Fanzine
This is the interview I did with Rain On The Parade in April of 1997. Originally in What Was Said Fanzine. 1. Okay, who is in the band and all that crap? My name is Ronnie and I sing. DII plays one guitar. Justin plays the other. Matt jumps around with his bass. Chris just joined the band. He plays drums. 2. Have you guys gotten any shit for the lyrics to Body Bag? You know, with the way all this metal slop has taken over hardcore in the past few years, you’d think we’d catch some slack for writing…
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October 12, 2005
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25 Ta Life, A Death In The Family, Billingsgate, Black Turns Green, Count Me Out, Earth Crisis, Ensign, Fastbreak, Floorpunch, Good Riddance, Hands Tied, Hogan's Heroes, Ignite, In My Eyes, In The Blink Of An Eye Fanzine, Judge, Kurbjaw, Rain On The Parade, Redemption 87, Shutdown, Strength 691, Strife, The Purpose, The Straight Edge, Time Flies, Token Entry, Turning Point, Underdog, Vision, Weapon X
Weapon X was a band who only played one show at the Manville Elks Lodge on August 9th 1997. Members of Weapon X have also been in Ensign, Vision, The Purpose, Black Turns Green, Kurbjaw, A Death In The Family, and some others. I remember the week before Floorpunch, Vision, and 25 Ta Life played the same venue. In fact, Manville would be a consistent venue for a few years after this. Sometimes I really miss the place. It was easy to get to (go around the circle, go up six lights, make a left!), the people who ran it seemed to be really cool, and I always knew no matter what show I…
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August 2, 2005
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411, 97a, Anti Heroes, Arms Reach, Bad Brains, Beyond, Deadguy, DRI, DYS, Ensign, Fit For Abuse, Floorpunch, Full Speed Ahead, H-Street, Impact Unit, In My Eyes, In The Blink Of An Eye Fanzine, Kill Your Idols, Killing Time, Mainstrike, Negative Approach, Negative FX, Nerve Agents, Neurosis, No Redeeming Social Value, One Sided War, Parade Brigade Fanzine, Quicksand, Raw Power, Samiam, Society System DeControl, Spazz, Speak 714, The Judas Iscariot, The Purpose, Token Entry, Unit Pride
This is our personal pages from Parade Brigade #1. Nothing much to say here. The Spazz interview was actually in #1 (but the H-Street interview we mention later on wasn’t, huh?). The Kill Your Idols, Speak 714, Purpose, and Nerve Agents interviews are still unreleased to this day. We never got around to interviewing In My Eyes. Parade Brigade #1 Well, well, a new zine. John and I have combined forces and are now doing a zine together. ITBOAE is dead; not that anyone gives a fuck, but hey why not mention it? I figure fuck, I am the negative…
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