Djblurr

Hi,

I'm from Australia and currently on holiday in the USA. I'm desperately looking for advice on where I can find some good local shows in both cities. I was recently in LA for 3 days where I thought it would be easy to find something, but I was unable to find anything apart from some grind show which I'm not into.

I'll be specifically in Miami 12th-17th march and 18th-21st new York - I kind of assumed there would be local shows any day of the week though?

Thanks for your help!

Alfred

Well whatever you do stay away from the bands that play that awful machismo tough guy hardcore, appropriately named NYHC.

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SATCHMO

Otherwise known as the only true hardcore that has ever been or ever will be.

CAPTAIN CAVEMAN

oh fuck off

SATCHMO

I'd rather FSU

CAPTAIN CAVEMAN

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

SATCHMO

To clarify: I'm not being an elitist. I don't like NYHC enough to even consider being a genre snob about it, and although I do like it purely for nostalgic purposes, there's none in my collection. It's just that that's what hardcore is: 90's crossover of metal and punk created and perfected in NYC , and well I'll give Boston the credit they deserve as well. everything else is just, well...very poorly named.

Djblurr

I listen to some nyhc like madball, but instead of all arguing can someone just try and help me out with my question? My time is running out!

Thanks

jackhammer

I wouldn't consider myself a snob but the NY scene was mainly the 80's with Agnostic Front, Crumbsuckers, Leeway and Ludichrist leading the way whilst other bands emerged on the scene in other parts of the U.S such as Corrosion Of Conformity ( early stuff only) and D.R.I.

Some of these bands were lumped in with Thrash but that's only because they emerged at the same time as Thrash was making it big but they had far more in common with Punk than Metal and then merged to a certain degree into the metal scene either by being labelled with a Crossover tag or assimilating a metal sound.

D.R.I's Crossover is probably THE album that encapsulates this but this is hardly Metal or Punk but both.

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music_phantom13

Umm... you can't give any credit to DC? The hardcore scene there started in the early 80's, Teen Idles, Minor Threat, Government Issue and so on were already working on crossing punk and metal back in '81 or earlier. Dischord was essentially the beginning of hardcore as far as I'm concerned. Though the New York scene was starting off around then too, I'm not trying to discredit those artists. Just saying you probably shouldn't write off DC if you have any sort of interest in hardcore. That was insanely off topic but oh well, I doubt anybody's going to write about punk concerts in Miami.