Last year, the mathy metallic hardcore heroes Botch released their first song in 20 years, which inspired hosannas from our Black Market columnists. Then, a couple months later, they played their first show in 20 years. They have reissues on the way, and more gigs are scheduled for this month, including one in their Tacoma hometown this Friday a...

One of the great longtime holdouts has returned. The Tacoma, Washington band Botch figured out a style of complex, frantic, math-damaged hardcore in the late ’90s, when peers like Converge and the Dillinger Escape Plan were fucking with that formula in similar ways. But while Converge and Dillinger went on to become hugely successful t...

Last month, Jordan Olds great video series Two Minutes To Late Night kicked off a new miniseries called Hardcore Summer, wherein some of the greatest musicians in hardcore are paying tribute to one another’s bands. Thus far, the series has already saluted Botch and Deadguy, and both of those covers have featured members of Converge: Gu...

Justin Timberlake has issued an apology for badly botching an attempted Beat Ya Feet dance at Pharrell’s Something In The Water fest, which took place in Washington, DC last weekend. “Beat Ya Feet,” so you know, is a style of dance that came out of go-go music in DC in the early ‘00s. DCist points out that is supp...