CHICAGO – After decades as giants of the heavy metal genre, the popular band Disturbed entered an immediate, indefinite hiatus following the sudden exit of…
PHILADELPHIA — While many mark the end of another year with champagne and tipsy renditions of ‘Auld Lang Syne,’ Philadelphia punks know the year isn’t…
There are few punk icons more influential than Ian Mackaye. The Teen Idles, Minor Threat, Fugazi, and Dischord Records changed underground music forever. However, if…
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Having honed his craft writing social media tributes to several deceased counterculture icons, amateur music critic Brian Kroninger claimed earlier this…
WASHINGTON — The entire Dischord Records office staff breathed a collective sigh of relief last week after intern Matt Saunder drew Dischord founder Ian MacKaye from…
Oh no! If you thought moving to Chicago after Dad left was gonna be rough before, look out! Mom’s new boyfriend is here to pick…
It sounds hilarious until it happens to you. I squatted for a hard-ass crew pic with my boys and now I can’t get up. I…
WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Jay Carney spent the week stationed at Kinko’s printing flyers for “the biggest rager to ever take place in…
CHICAGO — Prominent crust-futurist Mark “Musky” Long gave a brief press conference today to promise a crust punk will squat on abandoned property on Mars by…
Look who’s lucky day it is! None other than Mortimer “Morts” Jacobs, frontman of influential Southern California hardcore band Havana 5-0 is at your front…
CAVE CREEK, Ariz. — Facebook announced on Thursday a new plan to crack down on the much talked about fake punks who wear t-shirts featuring…
As new media pioneers and the platform for futuristic four-dimensional storytelling, The Hard Times is always seeking new ways to engage and educate our coveted millennial taste-masker demographic.…
SAN FRANCISCO — Friends of local punk Derek Evans report they are already fed up with his anti-Christmas rants that accompany every holiday season, a…
BERKELEY, Calif. – Excitement turned to disappointment this week as zinesters across the United States received a brand new issue of the seminal punk zine…
Rancid has been taking their brand of ska-tinged street punk to the masses for more than 25 years now. The legendary Berkeley group, founded by…