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Scowl and Destiny Bond Connect Really Hard

Kat Moss and Cloe Madonna talk their instant friendship, vulnerability in hardcore, and The Love.

October 8, 2025

Tina Halladay (Sheer Mag) and Matty Matheson Are “Pretty Much the Same Person”

The musician and the chef finally meet for the Talkhouse Reader.

April 15, 2024

Talkhouse Weekend Playlist: Django Django’s Top 10 Hardcore and Jungle Records

Dave Maclean shares a few tracks that shaped Off Planet.

June 16, 2023

Rebelmatic Makes Hardcore That Is Unapologetically Black

Frontman Creature talks the tokenization of Black artists, and why ACAB is more than just a motto.

July 2, 2020

Emo: A Personal History in Three Parts — Part 2, 1991-2003

On Maximum Rock'n'Roll, hardcore fanzines, and asking Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine about the last time he cried.

July 31, 2019

Emo: A Personal History in Three Parts — Part 1, 1987-1990

Norman Brannon (Texas Is the Reason) on "emocore," Ian MacKaye, and emo's origin as an epithet.

July 16, 2019

What Is Real Powerviolence?

Regional Justice Center’s Ian Shelton and Wound Man’s Trevor Vaughan discuss the sanctity of powerviolence and loving your own music.

April 19, 2019

The Hardcore Tribalism of Turnstile

Time & Space is a hopeful uproar in a nihilistic medium—and it's not for everyone.

February 27, 2018

Talkhouse Playlist: Dissent Punk With Algiers

"While each epoch has its own repugnant political class, it also has its dissidents."

June 27, 2017

Why Paul Schrader Is Wrong and Hardcore Is, in Fact, a Major Movie

Jim Hemphill makes the case that, despite what Schrader himself may say, one of the director's most personal films is also one of his best.

September 15, 2016

re: dress: Meredith Graves Counts Down Her Biggest Fashion Hits and Misses

Editor's Note: Even when she "misses," Graves still looks great.

April 14, 2016

re: dress #4: national handbag/that sarah records look/she

Meredith Graves talks sadness, Instagram and rebirth.

March 31, 2016