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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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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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February 11, 2019
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Breakdown, Friendly Fire, Striking Distance
Local news: Manahawkin’s own Friendly Fire played this show. They came back and played two I think?) shows with a few new members. They went over okay and covered War Zone and Inside Out. Striking Distance played the shore a lot in 00/01, so I don’t remember much specifically about them at this show. Breakdown played a great set as usual. I went flying over a table at one point that people were diving off of too. There was a fight in the parking lot afterwards that got the cops called. I helped break it up and then went inside…
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August 7, 2017
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Breakdown, Foundation, King Nine, No Warning, Suburban Scum, Think I Care
I was only at this show for Breakdown, of course, but I ended up getting there really early so I had to watch a lot of other bands. I liked Think I Care back in the 00s, but their last album was much slower and heavier and kind of dull. They played a good mix of songs at this show. Foundation were an Earth Crisis/Hatebreed hybrid. I guess they are a big straight edge band? Not really my thing. Breakdown were great of course. A handful of us were really going off and the crowd let us be. A few…
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February 13, 2017
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Bold, Breakdown, Citizens Arrest, No Contest, One Sided War, Out Cold, Wide Awake
Wide Awake did not play this show, but No Contest got added as they had two new records coming out. They were a great band from here in NJ. I do not remember anything particular about their set or Fanshen, although I swear I took pictures of them? I loaned out a lot of pictures back then and most never got back to me. One Sided War was a new band with Matt Warnke from Bold and Pat from Citizens Arrest. They sounded like later Bold, sort of, but I also thought they had a lot of influence from later…
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January 1, 2017
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A Tribe Called Quest, Alienation, Arms Race, Betty Davis, Breakdown, Framtid, Infest, Inumerable Forms, Leeway, Omegas, Think I Care, True Vision, Wound Man, Youth Of Today
I realized as I began reading the lists that other people put together I have heard very little new music this year. What I did check out was mostly exceptional. Here is a general top ten since it would be silly to break this up… A Tribe Called Quest-We Got It From Here Thank You 4 Your Service Alienation-Self Titled Arms Race-New Wave Of British Hardcore Betty Davis-The Columbia Years 1968-1969 Framtid-The Horrific Visions Innumerable Forms-Petrified Omegas-Power To Exist Think I Care-Singles Collection True Vision-Against The Grain Wound Man-Perimeter Gigs: Infest, Youth Of Today, Leeway, Breakdown
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June 18, 2016
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Breakdown, Ensign, Fastbreak, Floorpunch, Full Speed Ahead
My first year of college was finally over and to celebrate this show happened on the final day! Brilliant, right? I went to campus in the morning, took a math final (which also had a few Brick Town crew people in it), and then drove back down to Manahawkin for dinner and then to pick up everyone for the show. After stopping at a rest stop (for some reason I have a vivid memory of this) we headed up the show and made sure we got there on time. We had seen Full Speed Ahead the previous summer and spent…
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June 7, 2016
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Automatic, Breakdown, By The Grace Of God, Ensign, Finish Line Fanzine, Game Plan Fanzine, Mincing Words Fanzine, Mouthpiece, Rain On The Parade, Speak 714, Ten Yard Fight
I was going to make it a three day weekened after the Breakdown show the day before with a Ten Yard Fight show in Philadelphia on Sunday, but I busted up my hand real bad at this show. Automatic was a new band with members of Mouthpiece and By The Grace Of God. They played melodic hardcore (ugh). I interviewed them but never printed it because it came out really badly. Rain On The Parade were, uh, Rain On The Parade. Princeton Arts Council had a nice stage, so I remember getting off a bunch of good dives and even…
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February 27, 2016
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2 x 4, Aggression Pact, Agnostic Front, Ajax, Breakdown, Combatant, Constant Fear, Cro-Mags, Floorpunch, Gism, Intent, Into Another, John Coltrane, Leeway, No Tolerance, Protester, Siege, The Flex, Udusic, Vaaska, Violent Reaction
LP No Tolerance-You Walk Alone Vaaska-Todos Contra Todos Into Another-Omens Violent Reaction-Marching On Constant Fear-DroneKill EP Aggression Pact-Self Titled Ajax-Self Titled The Flex-Don’t Bother With The Outside World 2 x 4-Self Titled Udusic-Self Titled Demo/Promo Intent-Promo Tape Protester-Paincave Session Combatant-Demo Reissues Agnostic Front-No One Rules Leeway-Born To Expire Siege GISM-Determination John Coltrane-A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters Live I only attended two shows this year, but one of them was Breakdown and the other was Floorpunch/Cro-Mags.
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August 26, 2014
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7 Seconds, Abombanation, Absolution, Adolescents, Adrenalin OD, Agent Orange, Agnostic Front, Akutt Innleggelse, Altercation, Anthrax, Anti Cimex, Articles Of Faith, Artificial Peace, Bad Brains, Bad Trip, Barely Human, Battalion Of Saints, Beyond, BGK, Bl'ast!, Black Flag, Blitz, Bold, Born Without A Face, Boskops, Breakdown, Butthole Surfers, Cause For Alarm, Cheetah Chrome Mother Fuckers, Chumbawamba, Circle Jerks, Civil Dissident, Cock Sparrer, Cockney Rejects, Colcor, Collapse, Condemned To Death, Conflict, Contrazione, Corrosion of Conformity, Crass, Cro-Mags, Crucifix, Crude SS, Crumbsuckers, Dead Kennedys, Deadline, Deadlock, Death Side, Decadence, Deep Wound, Die Kreuzen, Direct, Direct Approach, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, Discharge, Discipline, DOA, Enola Gay, Enuf, Exploited, Extrem, False Prophets, Final Conflict, Fit Of Anger, Flux Of Pink Indians, G.B.H., Gang Green, Genocide Express, Gism, Gorilla Biscuits, Government Issue, Holy Dolls, Ignition, Impact, Inferno, Infest, Instigators, Iron Cross, Jerry's Kids, Judge, Kalashnikov, Kangrena, Krakdown, Last Rights, Leeway, Life's Blood, Lip Cream, Local Disturbance, Los Violadores, Millions Of Dead Cops, Minor Threat, Mob 47, Napalm Death, Nausea, Negative Approach, Negative FX, Negazione, Neon Christ, Neos, No Labels, No Rock Stars, ODFX, Our Gang, Outburst, Overkill, Pandemonium, Part 1, Peggio Punx, Poison Idea, Porcelain Forehead, Porno Patrol, PPG, Pressure Release, RAF Punk, Rattus, Raw Deal, Raw Power, Reagan Youth, Red C, Rest In Pieces, Rudimentary Peni, Saccharine Trust, Sacrilege, Scream, SCUM, Septic Death, Shit SA, Shitlickers, Show Of Force, Sick Of It All, Side By Side, Siege, Slaughterhouse 4, Slipknot, Society System DeControl, Sons Of Ishmael, Stains, Stand Proud, State, State of Alert, Straight Ahead, Subhumans, Suicidal Tendencies, Supertouch, Swiz, Teen Idles, Terveet Kadet, The Abused, The Afflicted, The Comes, The Dicks, The Execute, The Faith, The Fix, The Freeze, The FU's, The Groinoids, The Iconoclast, The Mob, The Offenders, The Partisans, The Proletariat, The White Lie, Token Entry, Trash, Treason, Trip 6, True Colors, Under Pressure, Underdog, Untouchables, Unwarrented Trust, Uppercut, Upright Citizens, Vicious Circle, Violators, Void, War Zone, Wargasm, Wretched, YDI, YDL, Youth Brigade, Youth Of Today, Zenzile, Zyklome A
Abombanation, Demo Tape, USA, 1988 The Abused, Loud & Clear 7″, USA, 1983 Adolescents, Self Titled LP, USA, 1981 Adrenalin OD, The Wacky Hi-Jinks of Adrenalin OD, USA, 1984 Agent Orange, Your Mother Sucks Cock In Hell 7″, Holland, 1983 Agnostic Front, Victim In Pain LP, USA, 1984 Altercation, Demo Tape, USA, 1988 Anthrax, Capitalism Is Cannibalism 7″, England, 1983 Anti-Cimex, Victims Of A Bomb Raid 7″, Sweden, 1983 Bad Brains, Rock For Light LP, USA, 1983 Battalion Of Saints, Fighting Boys 12″, USA, 1982 Beyond, No Longer At Ease LP, USA, 1988 Black Flag, My War LP, USA, 1983…
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