Author Archives: Bronson

Recordcollectorcorecore: An Overview

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Bronson

Like the word “punk”, “hardcore” has so many different interpretations that it is difficult to say what exactly one listens to when they say they listen to “hardcore”. Do they mean Terror? Defeater? Negative Approach? The Ghost Inside? Gorilla Biscuits? … Continue reading →

Posted in bands u may have slept on, hardcore, punx, what u do after school when u live in the suburbs, what we think about stuff | Tagged bands who only release their albums on vinyl and cassette, Double Negative, Government Warning, Harpoon Guns, how oldfags cope with the fact that it isn't the 80s, Lung Matter, negative approach, recordcollectorcore, recordcollectorcorecore, Rival Mob, Tipper's Gore, Toxic Reasons, writing things that may get me kicked out of my local hardcore scene, YDI | 142 Comments

Who Is Your Totem Hero?

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Bronson

“…Totemism takes the place of all religious and social institutions. Australian tribes are divided into smaller septs or clans, each taking the name of its totem. Now what is a totem? As a rule it is an animal, either edible … Continue reading →

Posted in fossilcore, hardcore, life as performance art, overthinking stuff, postmodernism, things stupid teenagers like, what u do after school when u live in the suburbs, what we think about stuff, white ppl | Tagged applying what you learned while earning an english degree to your personal view of youth subculture, bikini kill, black flag, blake schwartzenbach, fugazi, henry rollins, ian mckaye, in before "sergeant d is my totem hero", jawbreaker, kathleen hanna, kevin seconds, minor threat, seven seconds, Sigmund Freud | 122 Comments

Life Advice: Depression and Mental Illness :(

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Bronson

Almost all of us have known of some stupid teenager who wants to appear ‘deep’ and ‘beautifully flawed’ by placing “OCD” in their “about me” section of their myspace/tumblr, and who constantly writes about how miserable and depressed they are … Continue reading →

Posted in advice, shit that non-ironically sucks, what we think about stuff | Tagged anxiety, bad feels, depression, life advice, mental illness, OCD, ppl who find it easy to relate to Death Threat and Unwritten Law lyrics, target | 171 Comments

Are You Too Alpha For NERDCORE?

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Bronson

This may come as a shock to some of our readers born after 1992, but believe it or not, there was once a time when the term “nerd” didn’t refer to trendy, reasonably average young people who happen to be … Continue reading →

Posted in bad hair, gay powerpop bands i like, nerds | Tagged bands that no one thinks about anymore, bands that were around when referencing entry-level Nintendo games did not constitute social currency, future or current cool dad music, MC Frontalot, nerdcore, Nerf Herder, pop-punk, powerpop, Rentals, Weezer, Weston | 66 Comments

Where Have All The Scene Kids Gone?

Posted on August 14, 2012 by Bronson

Sometimes, I feel like I’ll forever be cursed to be one step behind the times, or a step ahead in the wrong direction. For instance, just as 18 Visions and Throwdown were blowing up in my homeland (Orange Country), I … Continue reading →

Posted in bad hair, branding, jailbait, lolfactory, lulzy pictures, middle class teenagers who live in the midwest, party like its 2008, scene fails, scene hair, what u do after school when u live in the suburbs, what we think about stuff, youngsters | Tagged alternative modeling, being behind the times when you are 15, brokencyde, low-level social networking, misspent youth, neon, poor formatting, scene, scene girls, scene nostalgia, too many pictures/not enough original content | 76 Comments

Bands Who Are Keeping It Real: The 2012 Easycore Edition

Posted on July 24, 2012 by Bronson

One doesn’t need to dig deep into xEasycorex.net to realize that easycore as we know it (or at least would like to know it) is in a sorry state of affairs. Tr00 pop punk and wretched 90s emo worship have … Continue reading →

Posted in bands 2 watch for, being stocky, easycore, keyboards, nonoffensive white ppl, party like its 2008, pop-punk, what u do after school when u live in the suburbs | Tagged Act As One, Arcanine, australia, bands that should be on Warped Tour, being zany, blink-182, chubby singers, chunk no captain chunk, city lights, Cold Forty Three, easycore, four year strong, jawbreaker, Knapsack, new found glory, pop punk, teenagers, things Freddy Madball may not have actually said, Times New Roman, tr00 pop punk, your weight in gold | 56 Comments

A Brief History of Oldfaggotry

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Bronson

Have you ever uttered the phrase “I was born in the wrong decade”? Have you ever criticized a band somebody liked by saying “(band x) is only doing what (band y) was doing twenty years earlier”? Do you run an … Continue reading →

Posted in bands i like, bands u may have slept on, being old, hardcore, old shit, rock n roll, tr00 hxc, what we think about stuff | Tagged bane, dinosaur rock nobody here gives a fuck about, judge, male pattern baldness, middle class, minor threat, oldfags, recordcollectorcore, sound Of imker, stuff u shouldn't discuss when you are trying to impress girls, tl;dr, wasting your youth idolizing bands that have broken up, zakary thaks | 102 Comments

Author Archives: Bronson

Recordcollectorcorecore: An Overview

Who Is Your Totem Hero?

Life Advice: Depression and Mental Illness :(

Bands Who Are Keeping It Real: The 2012 Easycore Edition

A Brief History of Oldfaggotry

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