straight-edge

There are a lot of people out there who know what punk rock is but have no idea how to explain it to a novice or an outsider. It would seem simple enough to define it as “three-chord teenage rebel music,” but what about all those songs that have four or more chords? Or all the...

1996: President Bill Clinton was squaring off against Kansas Sen. Bob Dole in a successful bid for a second term in the White House. On April 3, former math professor Ted Kaczynski was arrested in his remote Montana cabin, suspected (correctly, it turns out) to be American domestic terrorist the Unabomber...

Hardcore has gone through countless stylistic changes since its inception and has inspired a variety of movements within music. Whether it’s the early veterans of the genre such as Black Flag or later acts who spawned metalcore and heavier subgenres by branching off hardcore such as Converge, these pioneers have been repeatedly used as an influence for the structure of certain movements—and their

1983: Hardcore rules, OK—at least if it comes from America. England was mired in the nü  pop of Culture Club and Duran Duran as its punk scene further slipped into shitty versions of what Motörhead did brilliantly. Not to say a similarly boneheaded ethic wasn't starting to slip into U.S. hardcore. But the...

My name is Jonathan Diener, and after thirteen years of playing in my touring band, The Swellers, we broke up and I had to move on. I'm a writer now, but will always keep music as a priority. After months of being home working on new bands, my friends Versus The World asked me to fill in on drums for their tour of Japan. It... Read More ...

APTV Los Angeles correspondent Nick Major stopped by the No Sleep Records HQ out in Huntington Beach, CA and chatted with label founder Chris Hansen about why he started up the label, benefits of having a diverse roster, the resurgence of vinyl and more before heading out to the Anaheim stop of No Sleep's first tour, the Death to False Music tour. ...

Recently, an article was posted that portrayed both myself and the record label I own, No Sleep Records, in a very poor way. This was due to a miscommunication/misunderstanding from the writer as to what the piece would be about. On top of that, the article was edited poorly and contained numerous errors due to a lack of factchecking ...

Syracuse, NY straight edge torchbearers GhostxShip are exclusively streaming "I Still Believe" on AltPress, a new song from their forthcoming Carry The Flame EP. Pre-orders have launched in conjunction with the premiere at Seventh Dagger. "I Still Believe" is a call to arms ...

Milwaukee-based straight edge band FOCUSEDxMINDS announced on September 30 that former Fall Out Boy drummer Andy Hurley has joined the band: "We're excited to welcome our friends Andy (Earth Crisis, ex-Enabler) on drums and Matt Wes (ex-Noose) on bass. Ne ...