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If you're looking for a place to lay the blame on the cultivation of hardcore in the early '80s, then lay it smack dab down on the suburbs of Southern California. From the humdrum tract housing of the Orange and Los Angeles counties came a punk roar that was utterly unique...

When you're talking about the roots of hardcore punk, there's no band to point your finger at but the Circle Jerks. From their abrupt, snotty tunes to their iconic slam-dancing mascot, the L.A. band perfectly encapsulated the sound and image that would spread across the country and create what we now know as hardcore...

In the past few years, we've seen the early eighties American Hardcore Punk scene finally get the recognition it deserves. From film documentaries to books to deluxe vinyl re-issues, we are seeing the homespun and fervent energy of those times recognized outside of its wise enclave as the catalyst that launched some of the greatest thinkers and do-ers of our present times...

Relentless, raw, and vicious are all fitting ways of describing Los Angeles foursome OFF!. "When point their finger at us or try to describe us, they don't get very creative. It's always 'punk rock.' Oh boy, that's exciting," frontman Keith Morris recently told Noisecreep...

San Francisco hardcore/power-violence quintet Ceremony will release their third album, 'Rohnert Park,' on June 8. The record will be the follow-up to their 2008 disc 'Still Nothing Moves You.' The new album was named after a city in Sonoma County, Calif...

If you met Melissa Cross -- she's tiny, boasts a mop of red curls and glasses -- you'd never guess she's one of the key reasons you favorite metal vocalist isn't destroying his (or her) larynx. Cross, who released the 'Zen of Screaming' and 'Zen of Screaming 2' instructional DVDs, is a longtime artisan who just so happened to fall into the career of coaching growlers...

Chuck Biscuits, best known as the drummer on the first four Danzig albums, succumbed to throat cancer on Oct. 24 at the age of 44. "In response to the inquiries, thank you for all the support," an anonymous family member wrote in an e-mail sent to fans early Oct...