“If you don’t walk out of the show with blood on you, you did something wrong.” This is the first thing I was told at my first-ever hardcore show, and it is an excellent depiction of the scene. It’s all about the speed, aggression, and rowdiness and there is no better embodiment of this than… Read more Turn Someone Into Applesauce: How to get into Hardcore Punk
From jazz being referred to as the devil’s music to the fear of backmasking (hidden backward messages in music) in rock and roll, throughout music history, there has been a persistent concern that certain genres of music have the power to corrupt people. Nearly all of these claims were completely unfounded; however, if there was… Read more Murder, Arson, and Lord of the Rings?: How to get into Black Metal
“Kurt smells like Teen Spirit”. This is the phrase that resulted in the title of Nirvana’s most successful song and arguably the most famous piece of music to come out of the state of Washington in the 90s; however, it was actually Kathleen Hannah, a member of the revolutionary Riot Grrl movement, who initially wrote… Read more Dare Ya to Do What You Want: How to get into Riot Grrrl