Early in 2020, the young hardcore band Excide, whose members come from both North and South Carolina, released an excellent debut album called Two Of A Kind. That EP had the misfortune to arrive just a couple of months before the pandemic, so Excide didn’t really catch a whole lot of momentum from it. But Excide hung on, and they&#...

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After eleven hours of deliberation, a jury reached a verdict in the federal trial against R. Kelly that has been unfolding in Chicago over the last month. As The Chicago Tribune reports, Kelly was convicted of six of the 13 charges he faced. He was found guilty on three of four counts of child pornography, and three of five counts of enticing mi...

Justice Tripp is notorious for leading the massively influential Baltimore hardcore band Trapped Under Ice. For the post decade or so, he’s also been the driving force behind Angel Du$t, a band that’s continued to change and evolve over the years. More recently, Tripp introduced a new solo project called Cold Mega, and he rel...