It finally happened, your beloved Grandfather passed away. He will be remembered for complaining about how nobody wants to work these days, how he put…
Cap’n Jazz is the most important emo band of the 90s Midwest scene. They are also the most confounding. When I discovered them on a…
Love them or hate them, IDLES is a band. What many people don’t know is that they’re also super fucking British. Their politically outspoken material…
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Residents of Washington’s capitol city are reporting an influx of tourism due to Rancid’s recently launched GPS app which reroutes all users…
Despite being maligned and mocked, ska music always had a safe space at the movies. From Bond to Bueller, if filmmakers needed a music bed…
Nowadays, saying that you like the Smiths isn’t exactly an Earth-shattering opinion (unless you’re Joseph Gordon Levitt in “500 Days of Summer”), but their influence…
It’s a well-known fact that rock’n’roll reached perfection with the advent of punk rock. Since the Ramones first put together influences from bands like the…
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…
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…
Heavy metal is the devil’s music. It’s written in the Bible. When you die (and if you try hard enough, when you’re alive) and you…
Where to begin? Weird Al’s work has been a cultural constant for decades, spanning fourteen studio albums, forty-six singles and dozens of perfectly placed farm…
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…
ROCK HALL, Md. — Local 34-year-old audiophile Jacob Mastinson revealed that he prefers the warm and crisp sound of music exclusively downloaded from LimeWire, heavily…
LOS ANGELES — Local man and self-described “music aficionado” Alex King once again paid $15 for access to a music streaming subscription despite only listening…
LOS ANGELES — Legendary folk rock musician David Crosby has inexplicably demanded in an open letter released this morning that streaming giant Spotify choose between…