When the esteemed writing team here at the Hard Times isn’t busy crafting Pulitzer-worthy journalistic masterpieces, they can often be found listening to music. Some…
England’s finest indie export has made a full career out of dividing their massive fan base over the course of their sixteen-year and counting run.…
Much like vitamins and other supplements that you don’t take or keep track of in your diet, new music is essential for your health. We’re…
Here at the Hard Times, we believe that there is never a shortage of great new songs to be heard no matter how much we…
Maybe they find their repetitive one-bar grooves to be tedious. Perhaps they haven’t forgiven them for staging an elaborate breakup concert and documentary complete with…
We’re not here to judge. Times have been tough and we all need to sleep somewhere. Whatever the circumstances are that led you to indefinitely…
Over the span of the last four decades, The Flaming Lips have more than perfected the ‘music to take drugs to’ genre. That doesn’t mean…
Motion City Soundtrack were the undersung torch-bearers of Midwestern Emo long before the genre was appropriated by wildly inaccurate TikTok videos. If you haven’t visited…
Cursive is such a criminally overlooked band that many public schools have cut them from their curriculum entirely. We here at the Hard Times believe…
Dating can be tough. Do you ever find yourself wondering how to be less of a dweeb and feel more hip around prospective partners? You’ve…
Long before Conor Oberst was known for posing nude on Instagram with Phoebe Bridgers’ guitar resting atop his bare dick, he was the leader of…
There are few bands with a discography as staggeringly great as the one Fugazi produced during their twelve year run. Ranking these albums is such…
It’s hard to imagine what the state of Indie Rock would be today without the arrival of the White Stripes. Their minimalist classic rock approach…
We get it. You love Weezer almost as much as you love fucking. Trying to combine the best of both worlds in a steamy playlist?…
It’s a question as old as time, and one we get frequently here at the Hard Times: “How do I listen to Green Day without…