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New York Hardcore’s flag-flier’s, Madball, have released a hefty in-studio video. The video goes into depth on the recording process of the band’s newest effort, Rebellion EP. The EP will feature 4 brand new songs with 2 old songs (“Get Out” and “It’s My Life”) getting a fresh polishing.

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Basement are a band making waves around the world. Their take on the punk/emo revival of recent years has led them from their home in Ipswich, England across UK and further afield to the USA. Now it will bring them to their devoted fans in Australia this June/July. Joining them across the country will be Sydney’s Endless Heights.

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Although they're from the East Coast, Night Birds sounds as if they were born and bred in California in the '80s. Night Birds are a great mix of hardcore, punk, and sinister teenage thoughts. Their influences range from The Adolescents to Universal Monster Movies and everything in between.

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Rock and roll wildman Eddie Spaghetti from The Supersuckers is bringing his long awaited solo show to Australia on the last weekend of June. Eddie Spaghetti grew up in Tucson, Arizona trying desperately to ignore the country music that floated all around him. 

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Check out this two part interview that features legendary skateboarder and Flogging Molly band member, Matt Hensley. Matt discusses his early years in skateboarding, turning pro, and why he walked away from it all. Matt also discusses how skateboarding ultimately led him to being a member of Flogging Molly and what the band means to him, his family, and those he's met along the way.

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Recent visitors to our shores, Toxic Holocaust team up with Municipal Waste for an upcoming awesome split LP titled "Toxic Waste", a great play on words itself. This thrashing masterpiece of an LP is due out on June 12th through Tankcrimes.

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Jack "Choke" Kelly, best known for fronting Slapshot/Negative FX, apologises to the city of New York, Victims of 9/11, and the Hardcore Community over some things he said and penned in song lyrics over the past 15 years.

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Around the end of last year, Perth band REFRAIN decided to call it a day. Being plagued with bassplayer problems, the decision was made to quit while they were ahead. They've now announced their final shows over the June long weekend.

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The year is 1999, Caustic Soda and Mid Youth Crisis have called it a day, and with the partial merging of the two, Blueline Medic was born. The same year, the "A Working Title in Green" EP is released by Sony Music, and then subsequently dropped from the label (idiots).

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Soul Control, are back with a five-song EP  that will once again push the boundaries of the term “hardcore”. Guitarist Jim Connolly commented, "I wouldn't say there's one direct musical influence on the sound of this EP but the fact that we're nothing more than a punk band comprised of people raised in the 90's is becoming more and more evident."

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