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January 13, 2025
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Degenerics, S.O.V., Worthless
One of my friends interviewed S.O.V. at this show for his fanzine. They were a local punk band that had future members of Full Speed Ahead in it. Worthless were more of a pop punk band that was not really my thing, but I saw them a bunch of times. Said friend was really into them. He might have interviewed them too. Degenerics were a really underrated band from New Jersey that did a seven inch of more Operation Ivy style stuff before diverting towards a straight forward hardcore style. A few years after this, they were a pretty hot…
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January 13, 2025
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Iron Cross
Iron Cross did not get to play this show because of some fights earlier in the night. In this era, that seemed to happen way too often. I cannot remember who else played this show? I think this was the show that someone started a rumor online that Agnostic Front was going to play a surprise set too, but I think it was just something someone made up for laughs.
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January 13, 2025
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Breakdown, Floorpunch, Turning Point
Back to Philadelphia I went for another show. The night before had some controversy, with a band doing an “All Lives Matter” statement that riled up a lot of people, but also led to some hilarious meltdowns by some old timers. I love being called a “new jack” while in my late thirties! Breakdown and Floorpunch were great, of course, but I remember these HUGE pits with barely anyone in them. I hate that about modern shows: The pit just automatically is…there. It feels so inauthentic and performative. Just like so many other things in the modern hardcore scene. There…
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January 13, 2025
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Burn, Maximum Penalty, Protestor, Youth Of Today
I spent a lot of this show, which a ton of other bands played at, hanging out with a few friends from the old days I do not get to see all that often. Protestor were really good and covered a Brotherhood song. Maximum Penalty played a bunch of demo songs, which are great. MP were the first band I ever moshed for back in the old days. Burn has a bunch of new songs that are not too hot these days. I watched the last few songs, but was not into it. All of this was just a prelude…
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January 13, 2025
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Civ
We definitely went to this show, but I don’t really remember anything about it. Uh, sorry? A few months later, Civ played there again with Hands Tied.
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December 28, 2024
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Infest, School Drugs, Wound Man
This was another show where a lot of my friends came out for INFEST, of course, but I got there really early. The Log Cabin has a small parking lot, so I wanted to make sure I got a spot. I hate parking in a random place in a suburban neighborhood, but now more than ever given all the Next Door obsessed “Karen” nonsense out there these days. No thanks! So I waited around for people to begin showing up, and we spent the first few bands outside catching up. We caught a little bit of School Drugs and they…
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December 28, 2024
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Disjoin, DropDead, Planet On A Chain, Revelation Records, Staring Problem
DropDead were one of the first out of the area bands I ever saw, and some of the first out of the area people I began corresponding with in general. While their sound has changed a bit over the years, their early records are on constant rotation in my house and at the gym. I had a DropDead patch on my bag in high school and wanted to interview them for a fanzine back then, but it fell through for this or that reason. I spent a lot of this show catching up with friends. A lot of people, including…
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December 27, 2024
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Bad Brains, Leeway
This version of Bad Brains had John Joseph on vocals. Was this technically Fearless Vampire Killers? I do not remember. Anyway, they were fine and about as good as you could expect in this era, sticking to the hits. The main event for this one, of course, was Leeway. They had not played shows in a number of years, and the last time they did I missed the show because I was sick, went into work that morning anyway, and went home early and then bailed on the show. They came out playing the hits and people went off hard.…
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December 27, 2024
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Breakdown, Floorpunch, Killing Time, Nails, Negative Approach
I spent most of this show hanging out at the table of a friend’s band and catching up with other friends. One of my students came up to us at one point and could not believe I knew the people in said band. I just shrugged and said I had known them for 20 years and that they needed to get over thinking people in bands are somehow in some hierarchical tier above them. I did watch NAILS and caught up with Todd, plus Killing Time and Negative Approach. The main events for this show were Floorpunch and Breakdown, and…
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December 14, 2024
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Alambrada, Armor, ASBO, Bad Brains, Beyond State Power, Black Sabbath, Churchgoers, Cicada, Confront, Cruciform, Deef, Desintegracion Violenta, Destruct, Etiquette, Face The Pain, Fashion Change, Fried Reality, Homemade Speed, Innuendo, Invertebrates, Legion Of Parasites, Life, Life Abuse, Lifeless Dark, Mirage, Mutated Void, Necron 9, Planet On A Chain, Poison Idea, Public Acid, Sexpill, Sun Ra, The Apostles, The Lips Are Back, The Radicals, Who Pays
Short Churchgoers-Complacent Faith Cicada-Wicked Dream Desintegracion Violenta-La Bestia Homemade Speed-Faster Is Better Mutated Void-Tarnished Long Alambrada-Rios De Sangre Armor-Afraid of What’s To Come Innuendo-Peace & Love Invertebrates-Sick To Survive Life/Destruct-To Stop The Conflict (Split Album) Life Abuse-Systematization Lifeless Dark-Forces of Nature’s Transformation Mirage-Legato Alla Rovina Planet on a Chain-Culture of Death Public Acid-Daily Struggle Sexpill-In Dust We Trust Demo/Tape ASBO Beyond State Power Cruciform Etiquette Face The Pain Fashion Change Fried Reality Mutated Void Necron 9 Who Pays Reissues The Apostles-There Can Be No Spectators Bad Brains-I Against I (Punk Note Edition) Black Sabbath-Anno Domini 1989-1995 Confront-Our Fight 87-90 Deef-Real…
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