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Negative Approach, MySpace Let's get this straight – Detroit, Mich. just may have been the birthplace of American punk and hyper-ballistic rock 'n' roll. You tell me if this heritage doesn't fit that assumption: The Stooges, MC5, Ted Nugent, Mitch Ryder, Grand Funk and Negative Approach - just to name a few...

For the past six summers in Philadelphia, hardcore punk entrepreneur Joe Hardcore has been throwing This is Hardcore, a four day festival bringing the worlds' hardest bands and fans together to dance, dive, have some fun and possibly share a cheese steak or two...

Tony Rettman has authored 'Why Be Something That You're Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985,' which recounts when the Motor City was a musical hub, and we're not talking about the Motown sound. When the city was suffering through a cultural, social and physical meltdown and the Romantics were the most visible musical export, suburban skaters, a grade school teacher and census clerk took to the streets