It’s THE hardcore hopscotch day party with Committment (Philly), Muscle (Baltimore), Free Bleed (Wilmington), Bridge Burner (Charlotte), and Mean Habit (Carrboro).
9/10, 12-5, at The Pour House in Raleigh. This show is FREE thanks to our sponsors:
@opendate @cooksmillwhiskey @nodabrewing @newbelgium_nc Commitment is an inevitability, set to release their full length, “Fear Of”, on LA-via-Philadelphia label Get Better Records this spring. “Fear Of” packs a punch composed of raw punk, hardcore, and d-beat inspired music that essentially results in fast punk that sometimes includes groove as often as it does blast beats. Lyrically, the themes of “Fear Of “include sexual liberation, sacred rage, vengeance, violence, insecurity, surveillance, overconsumption, social media, and mind control/brainwashing. The band aims to peel off listener’s faces, leaving grinning skulls and exposed brains as the canvas for vocalist Tatiana mi Salazar’s indoctrination. The formula is quite simple, but the result isn’t.
Muscle is a Baltimore hardcore trio making sharp, anxious, deeply physical music, layering anxious hooks with gut-punch screams and lyrics that are dark, weird, funny, and honestly very hard to shake. Muscle sits comfortably alongside more conventional punk and hardcore acts, but pushes sonically and conceptually into more unstable territory. Built for screaming and convulsing. An intense, cathartic, good-ass time.
Mean Habit is a queer, all trans/femme, hardcore-inspired, post punk band from Carrboro, NC. Seething, palpable, raw rage meets poetic writing about highly personal experiences and their political contexts. Mean Habit screams about transphobic fetishization, intimate partner abuse’s role in patriarchy, and the reclamation of sites of dehumanization while rallying for autonomy, love, and the annihilation of capitalism.
Free Bleed is hardcore punk from Wilmington, NC. We are queer, unapologetic, politically driven, fast, and emotional. We are: Dallas, Mak, Brad, Jackson, and Rachel. You can find our recent EP, Justified Violence on bandcamp.
Bridge Burner is genre-bending hardcore punk from Charlotte, NC