The Bouncing Souls almost seem underrated among their peers. Maybe it’s because they’re from New Jersey and we as a nation have been conditioned from…
We’ve written about Social Distortion a few times before. Fortunately, we were pretty drunk all of those times and don’t remember most of what we…
FUCKIN’ SLAAAAYYYYYEEERRR have been a staple in the metal community since their debut album in 1983. And since then, they have existed as a band…
Look–I know Ghost is bad. They make pretty bog-standard hard rock, performed by cosplay Satanists, with lyrics that only the edgiest of teenagers find subversive.…
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…
The Hold Steady is the kind of band that will never, ever hit it big on the charts, but inspires a level of fanatical devotion…
With a career spanning over two decades, New York punk darlings Bayside have given their devoted fan base eight albums to laugh, cry, mosh, and…
The Britpop sensations known as the all-conquering Oasis were best known for the confrontational interviews, powerful eyebrows, and even occasionally the music they produced/plagiarized. Prior…
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…
My Chemical Romance proved to the world just how far an oversexed MySpace profile could take you in this world. Sex it up right and…
Against Me! has experienced quite a rocky road through the punk scene. They were pretty much the last band to get hated on for “selling…
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…
Look, if you know anything about the Dead Kennedys then nothing in this ranking will surprise you, so let’s make things interesting. I’ll list the…
Thanks to platforms like social media and YouTube, selling out isn’t really a thing anymore. But back in the days when record companies had a…
Streetlight Manifesto is a hard band to classify. They blend many genres into songs of epic length that are packed densely with so many riffs…