Today, two huge annual hardcore festivals announced their lineups, and both of them are topped by Have Heart, the Boston straight-edge cult heroes who are back and playing their first shows since their last reunion in 2019. LA’s Sound And Fury is the bigger of the two festivals; it’s probably the biggest North American hardco...

Rival Schools are back, baby! Walter Schreifels, the New York hardcore legend behind bands like Youth Of Today and Gorilla Biscuits, founded Rival Schools in 1999, after the dissolution of his great post-hardcore band Quicksand. The new band consisted entirely of hardcore vets, but they found a sound that was closer to fuzzed-up alt-rock. Rival ...