No matter how you view straight edge or straight edge bands, it's an undeniable part of punk culture. The idea of opting out of a life with alcohol, drugs, and promiscuous sex has raised a lot of ...

Last night, Washington D.C. straight-edge stompers Coke Bust ripped open Churchill’s Pub like a moody Norse God leveling some mountains out of ennui. And really, would you have expected any less with ...

December marks the thirtieth anniversary of the first show by Minor Threat, one of the best American punk bands that formed on these angsty shores. To commemorate the occasion, we’ve come up with a ...

All of these bands in my opinion were the building blocks for what would become the straight-edge movement that exists today. Every band in this list i have listened to countless times; i have seen ...

Things move fast in hardcore. Inclination formed just five years ago in 2017, and in the time since, the Louisville five-piece have built up a palpable sense of momentum. “We weren’t really expecting ...

With feedback grinding from the speakers, DARE’s drummer Anaiah Lei quickly sketched a large X on each hand with black marker. The dim, classroom-sized Locker Room stage at the Garden Amphitheatre was ...

For a band that only officially formed in September, Denver’s Time X Heist has hit the ground running, playing its first live show in early October, and then putting out an EP, The Odds Against ...

It can’t be easy for a band from Colombia to make a name for itself on the American hardcore circuit, but Raw Brigade have pulled it off. The Bogotá straight-edge band have a fast, scrappy, rigorous ...

Go to any live-music event and there will be signs of drug use of some sort in the crowd. Even sitting among the well-heeled gentry of the opera, there’s bound to be one guy who smoked a fatty in his ...