Contributed by Hobbes A.I. punk artists have become increasingly prevalent in our spaces. If you are online or on social media, you are likely following them without realizing. The amount of A.I. art that has already been printed on tape and record releases is truly heartbreaking.  Now that government spending on Artificial Intelligence has increased by approximately 900% in the last three years, even good old artistic suffering has become automated. 
 In a perfect world we’d take punk off of...

Ninety years ago the Spanish Civil War began. It destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives but also gave birth, for a few months, to one of the most beautiful social revolutions of the twentieth century. It also exposed something that still defines Spain today: a territory with an extraordinary diversity of languages, cultures, landscapes and political traditions forced into a single national project. Modern Spain was largely consolidated after the Civil War, especially under Francisco Franco and...

Contributed by Davy from Hattiesburg Fascism is on the rise around the world, and as I’m writing this from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA, things seem especially blatant and brutal in the U.S. deep South and the former Confederate States. When you’re at your next punk show, you should be noticing how authenticity and alternative expression is encouraged and just how incredibly rare that is. For us in a smaller, conservative city, it’s one of the last remaining places we have for this. Our inter...

A summer report back from St John's, Newfoundland and their annual Lawnya Vawnya festival....

After years of being involved in graffiti and seeing / playin in hardcore bands I ask myself “how’d I get here?” As much as I have a multitude of experiences, friends and inspiration, among them there are more defining eras, points or moments. For my two biggest passions I can track the drive to explore them seriously back to my friend Bad Bill. In fall 2017 I saw GAZM for the first time and most music I had known was pretty lame to me after that. After a year we were hangin, shortly after tha...

Noise Not Borders is an annual fest that takes place in Montreal, Canada. It's also the name of the crew that puts on the fest and works year round to book shows and events around the city. ...

Something that's stuck with me for over twenty years now is how the FORMALDEHYDE JUNKIES, a band with a single decent comp appearance, one great 7" which has maintained 33% relevancy since its release (I've never seen the masses clamor for a "Repressed" cover), and a mediocre sophomore effort to their name, let the words on their epitaph read "Now don't go start your own band." It bothered me then, and it bothered me now. I think you should absolutely start your own band and I think you should ...

Creatively Bankrupt Our continued exploration, both thoughtful and thought-provoking of "the Limits" will have to wait. Blame procrastination or blame capitalism's inexorable obliteration of our waking lives. We'll get back to it, but in the meantime, enjoy this creatively bankrupt interstitial: a listicle of ten hardcore punk moments, in no particular order, that made me THINK! 1. Who knows where I first heard it at this point, maybe Dave Freeborn and Chris Nelson on Ridge Road during one of ...