Hardcore Mutant Ninja Throwdown

I was recently sent this awesome video, which combines the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles concert tour from a whiiiile back with Never Back Down, the intro track on Throwdowns's Haymaker album. In the begining it's just amusing and pretty well edited, but around the breakdown it just becomes awesome. The simulated ninja mosh pit is fantastic, it's just like two seconds long but honestly reminds me of a pit. There's also about three seconds where leonardo is totally picking up change. Great video. Haymaker, awesome album pick it up, classic Throwdown super tuff very punk influenced hardcore. Get ready for childhood idols throwin down some straight up cussin (nahaha get it).

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Deeplinking now has a link to the article that the Donahue show was all about, check that out here. So after I posted that video, we got over 300 hits and we got linked to almost more times in one day than all previous days combined. So what I'm getting is that the less I actually write, the more interesting this site will be. SWEET.

"Expectations" by Youth of Today

"Vicky Crown" by Murphy's Law

BEST YOUTUBE FIND EVER

So I stumbled across this episode of Donahue from 1986 about the New York Hardcore scene. Jimmy Gestapo (murphy's law), Harley Flanagan (cro-mags), Ray Cappo (youth of today), and Vinnie Stigma (agnostic front) are all on stage or in the audience and they are all ridiculously young.

I especially love the guy they interview in the beginning. "Hardcoh' is from tha hahrt".

American Hardcoh

I was rocking my way through google reader and I came across a pitchfork review of a recently released Hardcore retrospective, which was kind of a shock. The comp is the soundtrack to the recently released Hardcore documentary, American Hardcore: The History of American Punk Rock 1980-1986. I started reading up on the movie and it really looks like its worth checking out. I mean, they interview Keith Morris and Henry Rollins, so how can it not be entertaining?

always wearing goofy glasses


always bursting a vein of some sort

I would post a video here of the trailer for the movie, but it's in a widescreen format and I think it'd be missing something if I just found a youtube version. The official movie website is very cool though and worth checking out. I can't imagine how hard it would be to make a good documentary on Hardcore music, the genre and scene as a whole are so scatterbrained. You have far right politics and far left politics, hard line straight edge and boozehound fighting mentalities. Things are stripped down and fast, then they're sloooowed way down and solos are being riffed with much ferocity. Everyone stresses Unity, but there's also a strong seperatist feeling towards anyone outside the scene and at times even people in other regional hardcore scenes. What other genre could have an album called Strength Through Unity with a track called "Bullet for Every Enemy"? It's chaotic, which makes perfect sense.

The soundtrack has a good amount of classics on it. These songs are some of the soundtrack choices, with some of my own personal favorites thrown in(I'll leave off the madball since I just posted them like 10 seconds ago).

The Fast and the Furious:

"Pay to Cum" by Bad Brains

Slow and Steady:

"Hallowed be Thy Name" by Indecision

Nihilistic, Hedonistic:

"Live Fast, Die Young" by the Circle Jerks

Hugs, not Drugs:

"Straight Edge" by Minor Threat

West Coast:

"Nervous Breakdown" by Black Flag

East Coast:

"Bullet for Every Enemy" by 25 ta Life

Misconstrued Right Wing Politics:

"Skinhead Youth" by Warzone

Straightforward Left Wing Cop Hating, Sometimes Misconstrued as Right Wing Cop Hating:

"Police Beat" by SSD

Oh and maybe I should mention the BEST HARDCORE COVER SONG EVER.

"Just Like Heaven" by Indecision

Also, next Thursday, you should tune into channel 7 to catch Ugly Betty. The executive producer just so happens to be my favorite person, Ms. Salma Hayek.

She also just so happens to be taking her shirt off in the previews for next week's episode. I know I'm tuning in. Number 3 on the countdown comes as soon as I can find my CD book!

that's all she wrote

CBGB finally closes its doors tonight. I wanted to get to one of the last shows, the Bad Brains / Bouncing Souls show specifically, but ticket prices were jacked up so Hilly Kristal can have some extra cash to fund his CBGB Las Vegas venture. Fuck that. I caught at least two shows there that I can remember, a Madball show in high school and then a Ted Leo show when I was a freshman in college. The Madball show was their first in NYC after they got back together, incredible fucking show. Usually the worst part about hardcore shows is the opening bands, but every band that night was on point. If I remember correctly, Awkward Thought and On the Rise went on before Madball. This picture's actually from that very show. There used to be a bunch of them on their website, with yours truly right up front. The pictures were taken after I got punched in the face though, so I wasn't looking super photogenic.

"Look My Way" by Madball
"Can't Stop, Won't Stop" by Madball

The Ted Leo show was totally different. It was a Lookout! Records showcase and every band aside from Ted and his Pharmacists was poo. The Douchipster and I were standing through the whole thing and tired as hell, but when Ted hit the stage it was absolutely worth it.

"The Sword in the Stone" by Ted Leo
"Under the Hedge" by Ted Leo & the Pharmacists

So, another piece of NYC history is gone, along with Coney Island and the Wetlands. It's sad to see a place with so many stories closing, but let's be honest it had quite a punjent odor and the Continental is a better venue anyway. Any five shots for $10 is a deal and a half if you ask me. Not that I've been there since I've turned 21, but still.