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[Audio] Face Reality release EP Detroit Straight Edge band Face Reality have released their self titled EP on Youngblood Records. From the label: Detroit’s Own Face Reality return with their second EP and debut for Youngblood Records. Face Reality cite Warzone, Turning Point, Youth Of Today and Mouthpiece as influences and they’ve been steadily working towards becoming the Straight Edge powerhouse that they are now. We...

Chain of Strength, Cold World, Rotting Out, ACxDC, Blacklisted: Destroy LA Fest The Destroy LA Festival is set to invade Vex Arts in this July 12th & 13th. A who’s who of the Los Angeles hardcore will join the legendary Chain of Strength, Dan Mill’s Cold World, Blacklisted and Stick Together. Good to see up and coming straight edge bands like Beware, Zero Progress, and New Brigade on the bill. Festival organizers have...

Monument X reform, release 'Dawn of Equality' EP Bangkok Straight Edge Monument X have reformed, and are back with their first EP since 2015. The Thai Straight Edge band have just released 'Dawn of Equality', and of course it's on Bangkok hardcore stalwarts Holding On Records. Listen to the new record below. We spoke to the band about their reformation, and the new record: We got back together...

[AUDIO] Safe and Sound: The Tides Washington state straight edge is back in full force: Tacoma’s Safe and Sound have just released their debut EP. The new record, entitled The Tides, features Aram Arslanian of Champion on the track Swim, and will be released on Life to Live Records. We spoke to vocalist Jaxon Craig about the record: My band Safe and Sound just released our...

Ian Truman publishes A Teenage Suicide Ian Truman, drummer for Montreal hardcore bands like One Strike, Run for the Border, and Disfigured, has since turned his attention to the field of writing. Since cutting his teeth writing lyrics as the frontman for Sounds of Revenge, Ian has gone on to become a novelist, completing four novels in the last 2 years. His most recent novel is...

Jona Weinhofen featured in controversial PETA Australia adverts A new PETA Australia featuring xvx guitar player Jona Weinhofen of I Killed the Prom Queen is facing controversy after targeting the country’s wool industry. The advert has prompted the Victorian Farming Federation to file complaint to the Advertising Standards Bureau, and Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce has denounced the ad as a misinformed attack on the Australian wool industry. Watch...

Interview: Sofia Acosta, writer Straight edge culture is appealing to younger and younger women Back in April I was given the pleasure of participating in an interview with a student who goes by the name Sofia Acosta. Sofia was writing an essay about Straight Edge culture, Punk Music is Going Straight Edge, for one of her classes. We had a small interview over Tumblr’s new instant...

G.L.O.S.S. to break up Only recently after courting controversy for turning down an Epitaph recording contract, Washington queer edge band G.L.O.S.S. have announced their break up. The band cited the pressures of mainstream visibility as the reason for the break-up. A yet-to-be announced final show in the Northwest will happen following Toronto’s Not Dead Yet in October. From the band: Hey y’all, G.L.O.S.S. has decided...

Two Words: Rejoining the Forces Today we are featuring the latest release from Italian Straight Edge band Two Words. The band was a Italian Straight Edge supergroup formed during the early days of the global coronavirus pandemic, before ultimately disbanding in April of 2024. Crucial Response Records has made available the band's final release 'Rejoining the Forces'. Listen to the record below. From Crucial Response...

One Step Closer: This Place You Know Wilkes Barre Straight edge band One Step Closer have put out their latest record. 'This Place You Know' is their first release since a promo in December 2017. Listen to the new record below. From Pat Flynn: What is One Step Closer? In 1854, Thoreau asserted that most of us lead lives of quiet desperation, shielding our common sorrows in...

[VIDEO] Nails release video for Savage Intolerance Taylor Young (right) and NAILS Taylor Young‘s Nails have released a new music video. The video is off the Oxnard, CA band’s third full-length record, You Will Never Be One of Us, out June 17th on Nuclear Blast Entertainment. Watch the new music video below. Warning: video contains graphic imagery and may not be suitable for viewers with epilepsy. From frontman Todd...

Anxious: Little Green House Today we are featuring the latest full length from Connecticut's Anxious. After starting off playing straight edge hardcore on their earlier releases, the band have released an ambitious foray into indie, emo, and grunge, and have more than delivered. Listen to the new record, 'Little Green House', below. From the band: While crafting Anxious’ new album, Little Green House, the...