ToucheAmore

Charles Epting Since 2007, Los Angeles-based Touché Amoré has been at the head of the (real) screamo revival; a post-hardcore sensation that thrives due in large part to its charismatic front man, Jeremy Bolm. Last year's Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me album found a spot on countless year-end album lists and Touché Amoré's sweaty live shows are already the stuff of punk legend... Read M

California's DNF is a hardcore outfit featuring members of Trash Talk and Touche Amore. Their songs go from grind to sludge in unpredictable turns, mixing the frustrated jams of their own generation with a caustic vibe something like that of early Ringworm...

Touche Amore are about to start recording their new album, 'Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me,' which will be released by Deathwish. The Los Angeles band -- who infuse post-hardcore with hard-bitten, forceful intensity that the genre hasn't seen in a while -- will head east to Kansas to record with Ed Rose, who has worked with the Get Up Kids and Coalesce, at his Black Lodge Recording Stud

The 'Axe to Fall' tour is one of the most intense tours around this year, but the first casualty has been marked: Lewd Acts. The San Diego band has been a tucked away secret of noise and shunning of the metal shrieks of modern hardcore, not known to head out East and all all points surrounding -- so their slot as support for Converge has been highly anticipated...

When Touche Amore played Santos Party House in New York City on May 6, they couldn't stop talking about how much they appreciated that Converge took them out on the road. "The guy in the Sepultura shirt said I'm awesome! That rules!" frontman Jeremy Bolm exclaimed while grabbing and shaking the guy in the Sepultura T-shirt...

It doesn't get more visceral than Touche Amore, a band this writer was lucky enough to catch at South by Southwest last week. The Los Angeles act traffics in pure, unbridled chaos, encased in moshy noise. Who says L.A. has no 'core? Touche Amore blow that theory to hell and back, as they play fast, soaked in sweat and spewing spit...