this one covers the viral sensation hardcore soft boy, 60 bands pulling out of SXSW and how Scowl and Gel led the way with their activism, the knocked loose blindfold contest, 40 year old agnostic front lyrics making kids in 2024 mad and xclocktowerx's first show where they trashed all their gear and sent twitter and lambgoat comments into a frenzy

we are the empty mansplain, international 'female fronted' day, deafheaven rowing boat pits, fixed altitude mom lawyer, dating in hardcore, thy art is real estate, the 'I hate women' tour and the kublai khan dance that neither of us have ever seen but have seen a lot of people mad about it.

a shorter but more in depth episode, this ones for the thinkers and big brainers

episode 19 covers psychoframe's first show, the RONALD shoulder print merch, oestrogen pre-workout hardcore band that made global news, new knocked loose, hard noise fest in Paris and the static dress video game that got announced.

another wild week in the world of hardcore and metalcore. This week grindcore makes an appearance where we talk about escuela grind, trust funds, free masons and more - we dived into the recent metalcore twitter / mxc twitter crossover, poisoned ascendency tour, how can this nightmare be my life/cease & desist fixed altitude, the psycho-frame copycat band getting announced and cancelled within 24hrs, congress reunion set at ieper fest as well as power trip's return with Seth gilmore.

concert tickets being classed as luxury items by people that haven't heard of local or small shows, 'corporate hardcore', have heart's shows being announced, loathe x dr martens, angelmaker setting a speaker on fire, ieper fest announced more bands and the undying queue discourse continues.

this one had us talking about spiritbox's grammy loss and the discourse that came from a twitter account posting a satirical statement, the $300 gulch record, camping outside venues for days on end in hopes of getting barrier at the show and lastly we talk about sofia's recent experience with an old head at a show that got misinterpreted.

we both had shows to go to on our usual recording day so we recorded this episode a day in advance and thankfully nothing stupid happened but we did get to talk the callous daoboys and their 47% merch cut, diet turnstile/valley girl, flip flopping opinions of bands before and after you know who's in a band, handstands in the pit, metal is for nerds, a venue banning crowd killing and people posting "I miss outbreak fest when it was a hardcore fest".

first month of the year down 12 to go

on this week's episode we talk about escuela grind's vocalist getting dropped crowdsurfing and ending up in a neck brace, turnstile converse and how insufferable people will become over them, FIR guitarist calling people marxist teenagers and turning replies off, kublai khan not having 'safe spaces' according to someone on the bird app, our friend jess nyx performing her guest spot on static dress' song courtney, just relax bmth's arena tour, ai artwork and the discourse surrounding it and finally 'the' architects' fanbase becoming everything they apparently stood against.

metalcore took the wheel on this one but hardcore still had its moments. we talk about coachella hardcore bands, metalcore twitter bands deleting their socials due to overbearing fandoms, mic grab etiquette and how mic grabs rule, right wing guitarist in a left wing metalcore band, coworker hardcore and we had a couple thank yous to make this episode as well as a couple fundraisers we wanted to bring attention to.

this one we talk about FYA fest and how hardcore is well and truly alive in 2024, battle jacket twitter crying over hardcore dancing to dying fetus, big light on discourse, ladder in the mosh pit, machine gun kelly razorblades guitar static dress, ronnie radke meltdown over people object to a band with ties to far right groups makes the cover of revolver magazine and the £80 hoody vs £10 local show discourse - this episode is wild ngl