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December 2, 2013
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Arcane, Bloodrust, Deadguy, Dillinger Escape Plan, Earth Crisis, Tied Down, Time's Up, Tonsul
Crystal and I went to this show and maybe Chris Morris too? She was friends with the dudes in Tied Down, so I think we headed up to this show to check them out. All the bands were video recorded except for Tied Down, who were new school chugga chugga kind of stuff. Let’s say they actually covered Earth Crisis and that is a pretty good description of them. Arcane were noisy, super technical, hardcore that was a few years ahead of the trends. Members of this band were later in Dillinger Escape Plan, which totally makes sense when you…
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November 21, 2013
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Battery, Better Than A Thousand, Good Clean Fun, In My Eyes, Revelation Records, Speak 714, The Straight Edge, Youth Of Today
Fresh off working 15 days straight because my burn out boss couldn’t get it together to hire someone else, I headed to Philadelphia to check out the Revelation Records rehash tour heading through America during the summer of 1998. I kind of didn’t like most of these bands, but we wanted to see In My Eyes and interview Dan O Mahoney, so off we went. I remember absolutely nothing about Battery, but I think Good Clean Fun jumped on after them. They had just put out their demo, so the, uh, “joke” was pretty fresh at this point, which would…
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November 14, 2013
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Hatebreed, Judge, Slayer
Sort of randomly, I decided to go see Slayer early in 2002. Honestly, I do not remember how this happened but Jim Lundy and I drove up and were surprised to find Hatebreed was playing too. I was never a big fan of Hatebreed, but I checked them out and they were fine. I ran into a few shitheads from high school who were way into Hatebreed, brah. It was pretty cool that they had Judge rip off shirts, although nowadays tons of bands do and it is pretty stupid. Slayer were…Slayer. They played all the hits and the crowd…
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November 11, 2013
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Hogan's Heroes, OS 101, Rain On The Parade, Shutdown
I don’t remember a ton about this show, but I remember it was during my first semester in college on a Friday night because I had class until late in the afternoon and I drove down to Manahawkin, picked up our crew, then drove back up past Toms River again to Island Heights to meet up with OS 101. I don’t remember a lot about Rain On The Parade at this show, but I feel like the show was pretty empty because there might have been another show going on that night? Shutdown did their usual 90 NYHC covers, which…
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November 7, 2013
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Al Quint, Crisis, Suburban Voice Fanzine, Tragedy, Witch Hunt
John and I weren’t at this show for very long. We only wanted to see Tragedy and we bailed right after they finished. I do not remember any of the other bands that played except for World Inferno Friendship Society and maybe Witch Hunt. I do remember I met Al Quint from Suburban Voice Fanzine for the first time in person at this show. I had known him for years from the internet, but it was nice to hang out with him for a bit before Tragedy played. Tragedy were awesome and played a good mix of their albums. They…
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November 2, 2013
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7 Seconds, Absolution, Better Than A 1000, Bob Shedd, Carcass, Ceremony, Chelsea Manning, h2o, Judge, Killing Time, Maximum Penalty, Mindset, Nails, The First Step, The Rival Mob, Tragedy, Trayvon Martin, World War IV, Youth Of Today
t seems that I make an annual trek now to This Is Hardcore for at least one of the days. A few of my friends went to see Tragedy the night before, but I had to wrap up grading for a summer class so I could not go. I wanted to clear out grading so I had the weekend to myself so I could see Judge. I thought I left for the show early enough to catch World War IV, but some traffic miscues and finding parking meant I only caught their last two or three songs. They sounded good…
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October 31, 2013
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Splitting Headache, Staring Problem, Wasted Time
Andy from Splitting Headache in summer of 2005 Swank from Staring Problem (With Justin from Parade Brigade Fanzine in the background) 2005ish Kenz-1 with Staring Problem 2005ish More Staring Problem? Wasted Time in Toms River (2006)
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October 27, 2013
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Government Warning, Splitting Headache, Staring Problem, Wasted Time
Splitting Headache in Brick summer of 2005 More Splitting Headache from Brick in 2005 Staring Problem in Toms River either 2005 or 2006 Government Warning in Toms River 2006 Wasted Time in Toms River 2006
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October 23, 2013
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Automatic, Carry On, Full Speed Ahead, H-Street, Initial Records, Nerve Agents, Out Cold, Parade Brigade Fanzine, SOV, Speak 714, Vision, Voices Forming Weapons, Youth Of Today
Parade Brigade Fanzine #3 advertised that the new issue would have interviews with Out Cold, Nerve Agents, Voices Forming Weapons, Speak 714, and Carry On and it would be out in “May or June”…whoops We ended Parade Brigade Fanzine in the fall of 2001. We did three issues and then a variety of personal, interpersonal, and worldly issues basically put the fanzine to rest. I still swear none of them was 9-11, although I cannot imagine us doing so well in the newly reactionary and jingoistic hardcore scene afterwards. I did a one pager maybe six months later and received…
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October 20, 2013
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Arms Reach, Craig Edge, David Koenig, Earth Crisis, Edge Of Quarrel Fanzine, Ensign, Hardware Fanzine, KISS, Luke Crew, Metallica, Mindsnare, No Values, Parting Shot, Rain On The Parade, Standard Issue, Stanley Knife, Straight To A Tomb, Talk Is Cheap Fanzine, Toe To Toe, Urban Mayhem, XClaim!, xThe Pactx, Youth Of Today
XClaim! were an Australian band in the mid to late nineties. I was very friendly with their vocalist Craig, who also did Talk Is Cheap and Edge Of Quarrel Fanzines. I did this interview with Craig over AOL Instant Messenger in April of 1998. We reference a tape compilation that we were trying to put together at the time. I will make a separate post to discuss that. BW: Who is all in XClaim! Craig: Terrific opening question Billy…but since you live in youth crew central, that being New Jersey for you slower people, I’ll answer this one. XClaim! is…
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