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Maybe the reason a lot of hardcore bands scream about a stagnating scene is because the hardcore scene is really, really stagnant. Over the past 20 years, although there were a handful of light-in-the-darkness bands, the majority of hardcore groups/kids/zines have been copycat losers, a zillion times removed from the founding principles of the movement. Haven’t you kids even read Steven Blush’s American Hardcore? Thank God for Stockholm’s X More Than Zero X. They’re one of the most important hardcore bands to come out since Born Against. They’re taking the original ethos of the genre—angry outsider kids with nothing to lose screaming about stuff—and twisting it into an angry, relevant alternative to the dross you fuckers buy up like 99 percent of the sheep on the cover of the second Minor Threat album. Vice: What led you to hardcore? Eva Unnes (vocals): My brother was into heavy, politicized grind hardcore. G-Anx, Anti Cimex, Doom... They all seemed so much more honest than straight-edge wankers like Earth Crisis. Finding a video of Siege rehearsing in some shithole studio in Boston in my brother’s bedroom changed my whole perspective on hardcore. From then, I got into bands like Negative Approach and Infest. This sounds a little odd coming from an 18-year-old. Aren’t you supposed to be all into No Doubt and stuff? Funny you should say that, because I met Gwen Stefani when they played in Stockholm recently. I gave her a copy of our first seven-inch, With Meaning/Destroy the Scriptures. You’re the only woman in a band full of men. Yeah, but I treat them like bitches. It may sound egotistical, but our band is like if Negative Approach and the Poison Girls were heavily into early Neurosis. Plus I think we’ve got something to say. Which is what? That it’s time to steal the term “realness” from rappers and put it back where it belongs: In hardcore. JIMMY SHITS X MORE THAN ZERO X’s third demo tape, Outpatient Waiting to Die, is out now through www.morethanzero.se |
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Subject: want some old skewl hxc from philippines Date: Aug 13 2007 03:52:27 PM Author: punk/hxc try this guys this is http://vice.typepad.com/vbs/2007/07/practice-spac-1.html#com ments i met them on myspace they are bunch of nice guys. Subject: WTF Date: Aug 13 2007 03:41:56 PM Author: xrepresentx is this a joke or what?? X's with someone smokes ?? whata fucckkk ur not hardcore or what ever crap your into... stop tryin to be hard...we all see your just a wana beee Subject: Hard Core bands Date: May 19 2007 05:42:41 PM Author: Richard These bunch of FAGETS cant sing, cant play, and they look like SHIT . They need a new make over and some new sounds in order to make it or for me to spend my money on their music. Subject: FALE and SUK Date: May 25 2006 09:04:57 PM Author: doup est. sorry, but i think you're missing the point. most of them "hardcore" -artists are like, this is something, that's never seen before. but what? these new_school_newbies are way too far away from the real hardcore. and what comes to that "hardcore", i've never seen it since beatles died. is hardcore about killing? crimes? anyone? YUP.so i thought. drugs are still controlling the world, so what can you do? there aint no lord, if jesus passes. you are made of FALE and SUK!! Subject: H2GC LESZNO Date: Apr 02 2006 10:12:30 AM Author: simon NAPOISZE COS PO POLSKU PEWNIE NIKT NIE SKUMA O CO CHODZI :p ALEE JA NIE KUMAM WASZEGO JEZORA ALBO BADZ CO HARDCOR CZYMA NAS RAZEM RESPEKT :) POZDRO :p ALE HUJNIA :p HAHAHAHA Subject: H2GC Date: Apr 02 2006 10:12:30 AM Author: simon NAPOISZE COS PO POLSKU PEWNIE NIKT NIE SKUMA O CO CHODZI :p ALEE JA NIE KUMAM WASZEGO JEZORA ALBO BADZ CO HARDCOR CZYMA NAS RAZEM RESPEKT :) POZDRO :p ALE HUJNIA :p HAHAHAHA Subject: huh? Date: Mar 31 2006 03:19:34 PM Author: hank hill to whom are you talking? who's talking about fsu? what is "real" music? why can't you manage a coherent, fully-formed sentence? what hardcore bands are you talking about? jesus. Subject: ? Date: Mar 30 2006 12:55:36 AM Author: zj I think your speech very makes sense! What meaning but don't I understand your speech am!dear Tony! Subject: hardcore Date: Mar 27 2006 02:47:53 AM Author: Tony the hardcore bands youve talked about are all shit what happend to good hardcore bands like youth of today, gorilla biscuits, inside out, vss, bluetip. your all wankers Subject: ... Date: Mar 12 2006 09:09:01 AM Author: fah-q fuck hardccore, fuck tough guy meatheads, fuck the thousands of poser kids with generic tatts and band hoodies. hardcore has destroyed boston. FUCK YOU!!!!! SHOVE YOUR SOX HAT AND NAME DROPPING PEOPLE IN FSU YOU MET AT A SHOW FOR 2 SECONDS UP YOU ASS AND LISTEN TO SOME FUCKING ACTUAL MUSIC AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Subject: y'all clueless Date: Mar 07 2006 11:09:35 AM Author: the masskantroll "anyone angry enough to be into hardcore past age 21 needs fucking help. that shit is hilariously lame." i'm curious as to your age. i'm also curious as to your knowledge of, and participation within, any punk/hardcore scene. i defy you to name more than 5 hardcore/punk bands who've put out records in the past year. i'd wager that you don't know shit about music that isn't fawned over in such bullshit publications as spin and fader. yes, i would bet that when i say "hardcore," you think "madball." also, do you mean to say that after the first years of only the second decade of an individual's life, one is expected to become complacent, if not apathetic? so what, are you like always happy, bobbing your balloon head to jam band records? guess what? there's still shit in this world for responsible, thoughtful, and compassionate adults to get pissed off about; and i'm not talking about issues of "keeping the edge," "staying true," or "defending the scene." "i remember kicking little punk rocker's asses after football games. hardcore my ass." who the fuck cares about what a jock asshole has to say about punk or hardcore? i can only hope that you try to pull more macho bullshit on some little crustie in the future and get fucking cut in the stomach with his switchblade. Subject: Bored of boredom Date: Mar 04 2006 03:38:39 PM Author: Franchised youth The problem with the post cold war, post 9-11, age of Western decline is that all the marginalized 'outsider' groups who don't identify with the norms that the editors of this magazine still think exist realize that there's more to worry about than not fitting in. Subject: how do you like these apples?? Date: Mar 02 2006 04:21:43 AM Author: do you like apples? the theme is that every article is fake. that's why you couldn't find a band url. Subject: the anger and fury Date: Feb 24 2006 08:59:57 PM Author: struggling within good job on their name vice. it sounds like it came out of a hardcore band name generator Subject: murt is hardcore Date: Feb 22 2006 07:04:38 PM Author: bumskin murt is for you it is for me Subject: hardcock Date: Feb 22 2006 06:55:54 PM Author: tim carr the term "hardcore" is best summed up by letting your mum inside you and loving it.coffee cock. Subject: hardcore Date: Feb 20 2006 03:37:04 AM Author: Dr. Yablonsky Lots of great comments here from the usual anti-hardcore music crowd. "Go start fires," "I play rugby," "get a job." I think I'd rather hang out with this somewhat corny band than any of you geniuses. Subject: need a url for the band Date: Feb 16 2006 03:32:02 PM Author: j e s s e can't find these guys anywhere online. HELP!! Subject: is this impressive? Date: Feb 15 2006 02:07:35 PM Author: a native negro caucasion geez... i remember kicking little punk rocker's asses after football games. hardcore my ass. now rugby... that's hardcore. and why do you have to be angry to play hardcore music? and why do you have to be a misfit? and why do you have to be a whiny pretensious beatch? Subject: you Date: Feb 14 2006 01:40:49 PM Author: fuck if you are really angry, go start fires. Fuck "hardcore" Subject: seriously Date: Feb 13 2006 04:27:15 PM Author: yeah anyone angry enough to be into hardcore past age 21 needs fucking help. that shit is hilariously lame. Subject: foamcore Date: Feb 13 2006 02:41:01 AM Author: Nicholas Steven Blush's American Hardcore is a-really bad book if you want o know about hardcore music. Subject: aaaa Date: Feb 12 2006 12:39:32 PM Author: eee what ever Subject: american hardcore? Date: Feb 12 2006 06:15:07 AM Author: Paleface Nevermind that the book American Hardcore was flawed horribly in narration. Why is the band featured in this articl relevant to hardcore at all? Man, I been playing hardcore music for ten years now. We done brought life to a small city of 100,000 people, and brought a scene to em, the same way it use to be... No one anywhere else takes notice. Cause we weren't cool kids, a bunch of misfits. an ego maniac in front (me), a rock and roller looking bassist, a mohawked drummer, a drug addict guitar player that needed his mother to dress him still, and a nerdy middle class kid on the other guitar. We got in fights, we caused a ruckas, and most importantly, we stuck up for all them kids that ever felt alienated. We deserve more respect then these fucking pussies. Wow, I didn't plan on saying all that, but I'm drunk, and things happen Subject: m'eh... Date: Feb 10 2006 08:28:10 PM Author: knife mcdagger i gave gwen stefani a 7-inch once, but i'm not in a band, nor do i listen to music. Subject: OMGROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Date: Feb 10 2006 03:39:58 PM Author: "I met Gwen Stefani when they played in Stockholm recently. I gave her a copy of our first seven-inch, With Meaning/Destroy the Scriptures." Subject: actually, Date: Feb 10 2006 10:27:32 AM Author: the massingale this band does exist, unfortunately. eva, tomas, erich, and vallen are good peoples. i rode with them when they played with krush and typhoid and iil groater last summer in germanland and france. they do not have any more 7" but will. pax romana, swine! Subject: hell Date: Feb 10 2006 07:40:17 AM Author: fuck those fucking scandanavian women are hot. Straight edge is fucking alright by me if they look like that. Subject: Hardcore Date: Feb 09 2006 11:40:38 AM Author: Dylan Kaiser Grow up, who fucking cares. Get a job and a life. Subject: Bullshit again Date: Feb 09 2006 10:50:18 AM Author: dub:h20 Couldn't you guys have thought of a better article if you were going to make shit up? The band and the url of their demo (see bottom of article) doesn't exist. Subject: Another Generation of Hardcore Date: Feb 09 2006 09:03:06 AM Author: Mugabe Hardcore? ...C'mon, white people, I think it's time to come up with something new. Subject: the andy Date: Feb 09 2006 07:52:12 AM Author: the ground round i don't think that this band is being recognized because it includes a female among its ranks. in all honesty, though, within any culture or scene dominated by men, the powerful, expert contribution of girl is something to be celebrated. anyway, i'd wager that most don't even know that a band called xmore than zerox exists, much less if it features female vocals. |
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