HOW MANY OF THESE PEOPLE DO YOU KNOW?

i broke my edge. beer is too tasty to care.
m.

Matt Stern Unknown, MI 04 / 20 / 2003
Youth crew kid gone goth. Now found DJing at house parties.

I KNOW HIM.

Kevin Cook Unknown, MA 11 / 10 / 2003
this sexy man broke his long lasting edge for the sweet sweet cheeba, son of a bitch. too sexy for his edge i guess.

MAAAAYBE. NO WAIT -I KNEW A MAN JUST LIKE THIS IN 1993.
WAIT IT WAS ME> NO I WAS NEVER EVER "ST8EDGE"-JUST SOBER ONCE AND
THE WEEDORZ WAS DRY THEN FOR A BIT. I WAS LISTENIGN TO LIKE RIDE ANDS PAILHEAD. IKNIKSNNZKTKS

Chris Noonan Howell, SC 00 / 00 / 0000
James Jadacki Freehold, SC 00 / 00 / 0000
Jay Rieg Howell, SC 00 / 00 / 0000
Jeff Gluck Freehold, SC 00 / 00 / 2003
his screen name is still sxejeff

Kyle Score Columbia, SC 07 / 18 / 1998
ran Even The score fanzine & records which put out vegan bands like fortydaysrain & day of suffering. Now he gets drunk & starts fights at strip clubs in atlanta

Matt "Grouch" Chambley Unknown, SC 08 / 00 / 2003
This kid once ate moldy snot covered lettuce for 5 bucks. Now he sold out. I didn't see this one coming.

Scott Dempsey Columbia, SC 11 / 00 / 2003
guitar player for Stretch Armstrong

Music is usually the backbone of people’s lives in today’s society. There are all different types. Rock, Rap, Ska, Reggae, Jazz, Classical are a few examples of the different styles. However, today, there seems to be an ever growing popularity in a genre known as Hardcore. Hardcore music is branching out into sub-genres of itself, and it even has its own festivals. Go back about a year, and very few people, only the true fans, could name AT LEAST one hardcore band.

Music is usually the backbone of people’s lives in today’s society. There are all different types. Rock, Rap, Ska, Reggae, Jazz, Classical are a few examples of the different styles. However, today, there seems to be an ever growing popularity in a genre known as Hardcore. Hardcore music is branching out into sub-genres of itself, and it even has its own festivals. Go back about a year, and very few people, only the true fans, could name AT LEAST one hardcore band.

Hardcore music has always been popular in two general areas, here in New England (especially Rhode Island and Massachusetts) and along the west coast (mainly Orange County, California). Every year, New England is proud to hold the “New England Metal and Hardcore Festival” at the Palladium in Worcester, Mass. Usually, this festival is two days, but this year, they tacked on a third. Reason being, there are more bands that want to play at this festival, and the popularity is really growing.

You can now go nationwide and find a ton of kids who listen to Hardcore. At times, this is tough to believe because most of these bands are not played on the radio. Two specific websites have helped spread Hardcore, the first being PureVolume.com, which allows the listener to hear cuts from bands. The second is MySpace.com, which is a popular site all its own! On MySpace.com, kids are able to request bands as friends and vice versa. Now, a lot of bands have a MySpace.com profile, and they get their name out that way.

Then again, it’s the bands themselves that are making this music popular. A great example is Senses Fail. These kids (yes, they are still considered kids, most of them are still teens!) put on an awesome show, and their second CD Let It Enfold You is just great. Senses Fail considers themselves to be a Screamo band, which is a sub-genre of hardcore. Most teenagers that listen to punk absolutely love Senses Fail, and they go try to find bands that are somewhat similar to them. Again, bands like Hawthorne Heights, Atreyu (more Hardcore, yet some consider them Screamo), Thursday, Taking Back Sunday, My Chemical Romance, and that is just to name a few.

Another way that bands get popular is by cutting deals with stores. Hot Topic is one store that seems to showcase a band at least every month. Back in June and July, it was the band Atreyu, and this month it’s My Chemical Romance. Now both of these bands are awesome, I personally have been listening to them for quite some time. I started listening to Atreyu when they released their first CD Fractures in the Façade of Your Porcelain Beauty. This CD was released on a little label called Tribunal Records way back in 2001. However, Hot Topic has helped made these two bands, Atreyu and My Chemical Romance, popular nationwide.

Lastly, the festivals in the summer are changing slightly. It was always typical of the Vans Warped Tour to have a couple of metal bands on the bill each year. This year they added to it!!! As of today, they have ten Metal or Hardcore bands on the bill. This just shows you that Hardcore is growing in popularity all over the nation. Stay happy and keep moshing!!

Josh Coyle
Unknown, NJ
02 / 00 / 2002
Mastermind behind Temperance Records and Roadie for multiple hardcore bands circa 1995.

Lenny Schafer
Galloway, NJ
00 / 00 / 2003
Was the roadie for the hardcore-jazz-fusion band Imitation America, not edge anymore but dances the same.

Chris Brickhouse
Unknown, PA
10 / 31 / 2003
Always said that he will "Stay True To The EDGE." That was until he met Gavlick who quickly seduced him to the dark side of Wild Irish Rose. Now the two of them are out all night drinking 40's of mickeys and smoking blunts.

Ed R
Erie, PA
00 / 00 / 2003
former bass player for some gave all, used to mosh for every band at every show now is a rare site at show

is that some kinda lame attempt to say people DON'T mosh because they get drunk now instead?

god, where is that onion article?!?

90's Punk Decries Punks Of Today

"Punk is more than just a Mohawk hairstyle," Tolbert said. "For us back in the '90s, punk was a way of life. I see these kids today hanging around Gilman Street in their leather jackets with their wallet chains, and I just want to say to them, 'You think punk is a costume, man?' Back in'93, it was about so much more: It was a rebellion against outmoded belief systems. It was a cry of outrage against the repressive authority of the Clinton Administration."

"Those so-called punk bands they listen to today? Sum 41? Good Charlotte? The Ataris? They're not punk. Back in the day, man, we used to listen to the real deal: Rancid, The Offspring, NOFX, Green Day. Those guys were what true punk rock was all about. Today's stuff is just a pale, watered-down imitation. There's no comparison."

"I saw some kid wearing a Sex Pistols T-shirt the other day—he couldn't have been more than 9 when the Pistols did their Filthy Lucre reunion tour," Tolbert said. "I was like, 'You can listen to the music, you can wear the T-shirt, but I was there.' I had fifth-row seats at that goddamn stadium, man, right up front, close enough to see Johnny Rotten's wrinkles. Did you see an original member of The Clash play during Big Audio Dynamite II's last tour? Did you see two of the four original Ramones play at the KROQ Weenie Roast in '95? You did not, but I did. I swear to God, they're like a joke, these people."

"The thing I can't stand is when they get all self-righteous and act like I'm the one who doesn't 'get it,'" Tolbert continued. "That attitude is totally contrary to the whole inclusive spirit of what punk is all about."

Daniel Malin Tustin, CA 00 / 00 / 0000
This distro and koos kid was edge for five years, but then sold it out to pot, shrooms and beer.

I remember when he used to be edge. Now he is way cooler.

during a particularly embarrassing time in my life.

KTHX.