In Conversation: Ned Russin of Glitterer
For over a decade now, Ned Russin has played a major part in reimagining the sound of modern hardcore. Just don't call him an "elder statesman."
He was only 21 years old when we first met in 2012, but I saw Ned Russin as a peer from our first conversation. Ned was insanely creative, enthusiastic, and well-versed enough in hardcore history to be called scholarly about it; when GQ asked him to talk about his vintage hardcore t-shirt collection a few years later, it was obvious that Ned was more excited to talk about Beyond and Judge than he was to talk to America’s premier men’s fashion magazine. He’s always just done his own thing with a level of detachment about the result, and that’s part of what’s makes him such a vital artist.
Much has happened in the intervening ten years—not the least of which includes the frantic rise and abrupt hiatus of Title Fight, followed by the form…