All the tracks getting Show Me The Body fired-up on tour

Welcome back to Selections, a series of artist-curated playlists from those in the know.

Converge’s Jane Doe triggered the experimental birth of metallic hardcore

Released 22 years ago today, Converge’s brutal, emotionally charged opus not only chronicles a personal disaster, but triggered the experimental birth of metallic hardcore

NY hardcore – Mixed by Show Me the Body

Show Me the Body channel a ceaseless punk energy from New York City and beyond in this unrelenting set

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Energy and tension from one of the flag-bearers of London’s 160+ revolution

Basic Rhythm

A personal history of hardcore – Mixed by Basic Rhythm

One of dance music’s most diligent history scholars takes us on a personal journey across myriad strands of hardcore and beyond.

Gabber Eleganza, Hardcore Soul

Old skool rave (1992-5) – Mixed by Gabber Eleganza

A mind-bending journey through golden-era hardcore from the Italian archivist

Zomby Ultra

Ultra, like much of Zomby’s output, is deceptively simple. The sparse drum patterns belie a…

Hot Topic

Social media madness, mental health, and our environment in crisis all get shouted about in this month’s Hot Topic

Poking fun at punk with The Hard Times

We talk to Matt Saincome of ‘The Hard Times’, a hilariously on point satire site that parodies the notoriously straight-faced punk scene

Hot Topic

Stuck in a rut? Dose up on some outsider opinion in our column dedicated to outspoken tunes

Hot Topic

More outspoken music chased down from all over

Hot Topic

Aaaaand we did it. It’s the end of this month, and this is the third edition of this column.

Hot Topic

Begone 2015! 2016’s here now. This is the future. Weird.

Hot Topic

A monthly peer into the murky world of the outspoken, the sidelined, and the hard-hitting

Whirr’s transphobia is no surprise

Indie’s attitude towards misogyny and transphobia sucks and it has sucked for a very good long time

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Blacklisters – Shirts

This song, Shirts, from Leeds hardcore band Blacklisters, is about shirts, and this video is…

Download 29 issues of the legendary punk zine Slash

Punk archivist Ryan Richardson has collected 29 issues of the newsprint zine, and he’s now…

Refused

Refused stream new album in full

Freedom is now available on YouTube The much-anticipated new album from seminal Swedish punk band Refused is now…

Temples

Temples Festival returned for its second year, and judging by the range of international accents…

Stream So Stressed’s debut album

The band are the first signing to Perfect Pussy member Meredith Graves’ label. So Stressed…

Kowton + Tessela: Two of the UK’s most exciting producers

The Bristol experimentalists in conversation