Black Flag is a legendary band people love to lie about listening to. Every indie artist name-drops them as an influence, and it’s all for…
Modest Mouse is one of the most important bands in indie rock. They advanced the popularity of the genre in the early 2000s more than…
Rancid has one of the most unlikely success stories in rock history. Despite having more members with face and head tattoos than those who can…
Millencolin: proof that coming from a country with the highest quality of life in the world doesn’t mean shit when you’re a pissed-off teenage skatepunk…
We really wanted to challenge ourselves, so we’re going to rank every Deftones album from worst to best. Though this is no easy feat considering…
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…