Violent Treatment

We're back in the new year discussing our time at FYA 2025, speculating on hardcore's near future, and reviewing some fresh releases from Godskin Peeler, Crush Your Soul, Demonstrate, and Coreuption R...

14 Jan 20251h 3min

It's the end of the year, so we made lists. We're joined by Brooklyn Vegan editor Andrew Sacher to count down our respective hardcore top 10s of 2024.  Pick up Violent Treatment's first-ever label rel...

18 Des 20241h 29min

We're 20 years out from 2004 -- a great year in hardcore. To celebrate, we're joined by Nick Birtles (If It Rains, The Next Level, Ultimatum, etc.) and Dan Schultz (Worn, Fatal Wound) for a big 'ole d...

26 Nov 20241h 21min

In the 2000s, Kids Like Us were torchbearers for Florida hardcore of the Lockin' Out variety, doing splits with Down to Nothing and the Mongoloids, and playing shows all over the U.S. After breaking u...

13 Nov 202458min

Nick Acosta of New Morality Zine joins us to recap some recent shows, chat about his label's eclectic output, discuss shoegaze's association with hardcore, and speculate on hardcore's cooked-ness.  In...

29 Okt 20241h 17min

We're back with a guest, and this time it's Mike Shaw, guitarist of Mindforce, Fatal Realm, New World Man, Sentinel, Collossal, and many other bands. Since Mike has almost never been interviewed about...

16 Okt 20241h 15min

Just Hugo and Eli this week, as we tear through a mega-episode of different hardcore happenings. First, we recap some recent shows we saw by Jivebomb, Destiny Bond, Cicada, Invertebrates, Public Acid,...

3 Okt 20241h 24min

It'd be hard to deny that From Within Records' One Scene Unity compilations are the definitive hardcore comps of the 2020s thus far. The Florida-based DIY label has released four editions of their gen...

17 Sep 202452min