Austin hardcore band Mugger (whose members have also played in Creepoid, Radioactivity, and The Well) are about to drop a new two-song 7″ on Quiet Panic Records tomorrow (8/10), including a song ...

When Negative Approach frontman John Brannon takes the stage, his surroundings by now must be incredibly familiar. The room is dim and sparsely furnished, packed full of young men with short hair and ...

Negative Approach’s career, like its nine-second manic meltdown “Pressure,” hit hard and fast and ended before it really had the chance to begin. The seminal Detroit-bred hardcore band, led by John ...

Negative Approach is Ready to Fight: Old school Detroit hardcore punks Negative Approach were recently in these parts to open for Circle Jerks, and now they’re in Long Beach for a matinee gig. It’ll ...

Detroit hardcore legends Negative Approach are taking a quick break from their endless tour with Circle Jerks to squeeze in a riotous gig at El Rocko Lounge on Thursday, Sept. 28. Negative Approach ...

Zach Curd (The Pop Project, Suburban Sprawl Records) used to be a bit of a hardcore punk. Now, as things happen, he’s a 33 year-old married dad. Instead of ignoring the cognitive dissonance, Curd ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...