* The glossy four-color hardcore zine I picked up in the early 2000s that effectively used "emo" as a homophobic slur.
* The ad for some band's record that I saw a month or so back that said "FUCK KOYO" in huge letters.
* Colin Young from Twitching Tongues echoing the sentiment that hardcore is an ethos first and foremost on his podcast, and introducing a Crown of Thornz cover at a recent show by saying "the [most hardcore] thing a man can do is kick ass and sing about his feelings."
* Harms Way (who I also love, really) taking Fleshwater out on their current tour, and watching people at festivals like Sound & Fury going off for bands like Fleshwater and Koyo and High Vis as much as for God's Hate or Pain of Truth.
I really feel sorry for the dudes who think "emo" is a slur, or that bands like Koyo aren't "real" parts of the scene because they're missing out on one of the most vibrant and interesting periods in hardcore's history right now.
I’m really, really grateful I found Anti-Matter, thank you. I found the original zine while doing research about gender in regards to hardcore/emo (I grew up a queer “emo” kid, with all the mockery) and I have always felt it problematic to put all the genres in separate little boxes.
I appreciate everything you write and am inspired and happy to see a lot of these values in current hardcore and punk spaces.
Really catching up on my backlog of articles, but again deeply appreciate this. I really got into The Blood Brothers because I found a band that I could have *fun* with, after the real heavily hyper-masculine stuff I was surrounded by in my area.
So many things come to mind.
* The glossy four-color hardcore zine I picked up in the early 2000s that effectively used "emo" as a homophobic slur.
* The ad for some band's record that I saw a month or so back that said "FUCK KOYO" in huge letters.
* Colin Young from Twitching Tongues echoing the sentiment that hardcore is an ethos first and foremost on his podcast, and introducing a Crown of Thornz cover at a recent show by saying "the [most hardcore] thing a man can do is kick ass and sing about his feelings."
* Harms Way (who I also love, really) taking Fleshwater out on their current tour, and watching people at festivals like Sound & Fury going off for bands like Fleshwater and Koyo and High Vis as much as for God's Hate or Pain of Truth.
I really feel sorry for the dudes who think "emo" is a slur, or that bands like Koyo aren't "real" parts of the scene because they're missing out on one of the most vibrant and interesting periods in hardcore's history right now.
I'm pretty sure the "fuck Koyo" ad was for a Koyo side project, but other than that, yes! Haha.
Ah damn, they got me. Like Vein saying "FUCK FLESHWATER."
I’m really, really grateful I found Anti-Matter, thank you. I found the original zine while doing research about gender in regards to hardcore/emo (I grew up a queer “emo” kid, with all the mockery) and I have always felt it problematic to put all the genres in separate little boxes.
I appreciate everything you write and am inspired and happy to see a lot of these values in current hardcore and punk spaces.
Really catching up on my backlog of articles, but again deeply appreciate this. I really got into The Blood Brothers because I found a band that I could have *fun* with, after the real heavily hyper-masculine stuff I was surrounded by in my area.