Older and wiser,but still trying to rise above, Tony Rettman meets hardcore’s elder statesmen and finds out why so many of them are making a comebackIn the past few years, and the number of bands reuniting from the American hardcore punk scene has been staggering. From the various sketchy iterations of Black Flag that have floated in and out of the underground consciousness,to other veteran bands of the early 1980s such as Detroit’s Negative Approach and Boston’s DYS. Even units like Washington DC’s Dag Nasty and New Yorks Youth of nowadays from the later allotment of the decade have got back together. It seems no band can resist being a allotment of this surreal revival demonstrate. Even though many of these reformed bands have delivered potent live sets that equal – and sometimes even surpass – the ones they’ve performed in their past, one cant help but wonder what the members of these bands have got to say now, and years after they first raised a mic in madden. Thankfully,members of some fabled bands from the 80s have decided to form bands centered around projecting the madden and confusion of adulthood rather than mimicking the angst of their youth. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com