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K-Town Hardcore Fest 2026 After doing a small tour with TOTAL NADA in Spain/Portugal/Basque country early this summer, I traveled up to Copenhagen to attend K-Town Hardcore Fest, my first time going not associated with a band, but of course we were there to table for The Counterforce with a selection of issues and related zines. Thanks for having us K-Town! Many people grabbed zines - if you are reading this and you saw us there, please send an e-mail and say hi! But, I did manage to watch some...

I still need to get this piece of plastic, but it makes me so happy to see how this group of people got together, in this city, and worked so hard on such a great album. After a demo only released as a tape and not available online on purpose, I thought the LP would also be an obscure punk gem that only "the chosen ones" would be able to listen to, but it seems it has been released everywhere, which makes me very happy. "Operación Masacre" is not the fastest album, but it also doesn't rely on t...

Slime punk, egg punk, egg. Chain wave, chain punk, and, eventually, inevitably, similarly, just chain. Does this help? Make more sense? No no no, just keep throwing some shit at the wall so every review sounds like a sales pitch and every band is a camel comprised of diametric sonic interests. D-beat, kang, raw, D-beat raw, UK82; female fronted, fast hardcore, fastcore; Devocore (that's a thing! The author's sweating!) Oh, good grief, let's not turn this first outing of mine into a referendum o...