Alexisonfire’s official website exists at the URL theonlybandever.com. Pretty bold claim, if you ask me. But then I started looking into it. Weirdly, I can’t…
This spring, Sum 41 announced that they would be officially disbanding after a tour to support their upcoming album, “Heaven :x: Hell.” Yeah, you read…
The late 90s and early aughts were a rough time for rock. Unfortunately, in our haste to flush nu-metal and post-grunge buttrock down the cultural…
Named after a freeway exit near their practice space, and often mispronounced by people who have only read it, (it rhymes with “Skater”) Sleater-Kinney have…
Ah yes, Killswitch Engage. The rooster’s crow of the metalcore world. The band you can set your watch to. Every few years they’re gonna put…
Easycore is the genre hybrid of pop-punk (emphasis on the pop) and hardcore. Its roots date back to the early 2000s and it became a…
Today is the day we officially announce The Lawrence Arms as “The Hard Times’ favorite band of all time” (this could change tomorrow). In honor…
One of the more memorable bands to have come from the 2010s (even though they started just prior to 2010, but whatever.) is Touchè Amorè.…
Look, I know that most of you only clicked on this ranking for the tits, it’s why I decided to write the dang thing. But…
Since every single piece on Foo Fighters must legally include at least one Nirvana mention, why not start this album ranking piece by doing such…
Fans of Exodus will angrily, and physically, fight the fact that this band belongs in the Big 4 of heavy metal next to Slayer, Anthrax,…
Does your inner monologue sound like it has a bone caught in its throat? Do you dream of living in abject squallor or riding the…
Most people over the age of, say 35, are probably at least aware of Pavement as the band that sang that cute song about getting…
“Physically strong, morally straight. Positive youth, the Youth of Today!” are words no one would ever use to describe us here at The Hard Times.…
The “power trio” has existed forever, but no one did it like Morphine. Led by fretless two-string bass maestro Mark Sandman, with support from saxophone…