We all remember how we felt on that Tuesday morning in 2001. The sudden sense of despair and hopelessness that overcame us when we saw…
Oh man, we really need to do more research before we set up our interviews. To be fair, we are not huge nu-metalheads, but that’s…
Our thoughts on police officers are certainly no secret, and we always jump at the opportunity to discuss the subject with like-minded individuals. As such,…
Everybody is aware of John Mellencamp’s befuddling “suckin’ on chili dogs” line, so we sat down with the aging rocker to learn the real meaning…
You can’t deny that Green Day’s “Dookie” is a legendary album. Therefore, when we heard that frontman Billie Joe Armstrong had given a tell-all interview…
Who doesn’t love “Weird Al” Yankovic? We sure as hell do! His parodies have poked fun at literal decades of classics, and in doing so,…
You may think of us as a punk website, but it’s long been our goal to evolve into a source of objective news for all…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Continuous go-getter Henry Rollins recently employed the services of a TaskRabbit professional to ask him questions about his varied projects and interests…
When we came upon the opportunity to interview Michael Sweet of the notorious Christian hair metal band Stryper, we all had a good laugh. Soon…
While The Hard Times is primarily a punk news website, we’ll never hesitate to interview a notable figure in any field if it means expanding…
We all know Stephen King as the master of the macabre, so we thought it would be fun to subvert expectations and use our interview…
Here at the Hard Times, it’s not like we get to interview a film visionary very often. We’re just a small-time punk news website, so…
Look guys, we’re sorry. We really didn’t mean to do this interview, we were just kinda buzzed and made a snarky off-the-cuff remark. It snowballed…
Numa Numa, Star Wars Kid, Salad Fingers. If you came of age in the early 2000s, you know these references like the back of your…
This week we had the once-in-a-lifetime chance to sit down with Taylor Swift and had kind of an “oh fuck” moment when we realized she…