Santa Cruz hardcore band Drain have just announced a whopper of a spring tour. All dates are with Terror and End It, the first leg is with Scowl, the second leg is with Angel Du$t, and select dates are also with Madball, Regulate, King Nine, Twitching Tongues, Mindforce, God’s Hate, H2O, Haywire, Trail of Lies, Mutually Assured Destruction, Cosmic Joke, Dead Heat, and Slugger. Read more: In conversation with Scowl and Frank Iero Drain vocalist Sammy Ciaramitaro says, “The Good Good Tour is so insanely stacked that it looks like a fake fest generated by someone’s Spotify Wrapped. There is liter ..read more

Zulu appear in our Winter 2023 Issue with cover stars Green Day, 070 Shake, Militarie Gun, and Arlo Parks. Head to the AP Shop to grab a copy.  Anaiah Rasheed Sayyid Hadi Muhammad has been playing drums in punk bands since he was 12. Now, for the first time, Muhammad finds himself at the front of the stage with an audience eager to listen to him.  In just a few short years, Zulu, the Los Angeles-based hardcore band of which Muhammad is the frontman and primary songwriter, have released two EPs and their debut record, A New Tomorrow, played festivals with LCD Soundsystem and KAYTRANAD ..read more

Welcome to Generation AP, a weekly spotlight on emerging actors, writers and creatives who are on the verge of taking over. For nearly 15 years, Colin Young (God’s Hate, Twitching Tongues) and Bo Lueders (Harm’s Way) grinded it out on the hardcore touring circuit, playing venues across the world, sleeping on floors and dining at just about every fast-food restaurant imaginable. Now in 2022, the hardcore veterans have joined forces, in partnership with the Knotfest for their very own podcast, HardLore: Stories From Tour. Every episode, they tell their favorite tales from the road, off ..read more

Welcome to AP&R, where we highlight rising artists who will soon become your new favorite. When Ithaca bandleader Djamila Boden Azzouz first entered the music industry, she battled a double standard. On the one hand, she felt pressure to overly feminize and overly sexualize herself to stand a chance of being included. On the other, Boden Azzouz was made to feel as if she couldn’t be feminine if she wanted to be taken seriously. She couldn’t win. “It’s metal. It’s hardcore. You have to be one of the boys. That’s something I’ve struggled with my entire career, particularly whe ..read more

Scowl appear on the cover of the Fall 2023 Issue. Head to the AP Shop to grab a copy, as well as an exclusive vinyl variant of Psychic Dance Routine, limited to 100 copies. “It’s a fickle thing to want to be identifiable yet feel strangled by the idea of being boxed into one singular identity,” says Kat Moss, the lime green-haired frontwoman of Santa Cruz hardcore outfit Scowl. It’s a heavy, honest sentiment she throws out, one felt by many hard-working artists in the industry, and certainly beyond. It’s this type of truism that we see, and hear, from Moss and her band that has allowed them to ..read more

H2O’s Toby Morse and Shapel Lacey appear in our Fall 2023 Issue with cover stars Scowl, Yves Tumor, Poppy, and Good Charlotte. Head to the AP Shop to grab a copy. As the lights dim, the crowd pushes violently toward the band, playing level with the audience. Guitars, bass, and drums create a buzzy and impenetrable wall of feedback, surging toward the pit like a call-and-response. It’s a contagious entity. The noise seeps into your body — chest tingling, excitement rises — and you feel the people around you reverberating with the same electric force. This is the all-encompas ..read more

If history has proven one thing, Los Angeles has become one of the main epicenters for punk and hardcore music due to the longstanding Sound And Fury festival.  Since 2022, Sound And Fury has laid claim to its new home in the glorious fields of Exposition Park in Downtown Los Angeles for a two-day music festival that showcases the heavy-hitting sounds of the next generation of hardcore — as well as the seasoned veterans that have grinded for decades to lay the foundation for this now-historical musical movement.  Read more: Sound and Fury Festival 2022 spotlights the new face of ..read more

Hardcore has a lot to celebrate as of late. Not only is the genre diversifying in meaningful ways both musically and socially, but it’s also beginning to experience an uptick in commercial viability without losing its core ethos. While hardcore will always be the music of the underground, it has managed to lower the barrier of entry for newcomers to enter the subculture, and it comes on the heels of years of hard work, collaboration and pent-up energy after the pandemic. After all, it’s impossible to ignore the success of Turnstile, who have crossed into popular culture whi ..read more

Things move fast in hardcore. Inclination formed just five years ago in 2017, and in the time since, the Louisville five-piece have built up a palpable sense of momentum.  “We weren’t really expecting anything crazy,” explains Inclination guitarist Isaac Hale. “But when we played our first show in 2018, it went really well and it seemed like there was a buzz,”  This is a modest self-assessment. Inclination’s debut EP, the succinctly-titled Midwest Straight Edge, has been pressed nine times and counting since it was released in 2017, the band has racked up millions of Spotify plays, a ..read more

Welcome to AP&R, where we highlight rising artists who will soon become your new favorite. For LA’s Militarie Gun vocalist and chief songwriter Ian Shelton, making music has always been an obsessive process that’s led him to release a prolific output of recorded material, and constantly reject doing anything casually. Formed in the midst of the pandemic, like many of us, Shelton felt restless during lockdown — especially when the live music industry that he had been a part of for nearly a decade came to a halt — and he felt the need to create. At the time, Shelton was performing as the lea ..read more