In Conversation: Brendan Garrone of Incendiary
After 16 years in a band, the Incendiary frontman has evolved from hardcore shows at a mall to insight meditation on a train. But the distance from there to here isn't as far as you'd suspect.
I’m pretty sure I made the first contact. I randomly came across Brendan Garrone’s Instagram several years ago and decided to say hello because Incendiary had been the first hardcore band in a long while to give me that “first time at a show” feeling. They reminded me of bands I loved, like Snapcase, and even bands I’d played in, like 108. But it wasn’t quite exactly the music or the lyrics that took me there. It was the spirit—a difficult to grasp and even harder to execute balance of sharp insight and violent rhythm. Most of the hardcore I’ve truly loved over the years can be described in a similar way.
We’ve kept in touch over the years, mostly by text, and I’ve always enjoyed our casual chats about music, dogs, and making sense of the world. But with the release of Chan…