Cliff Evans on Anti-Matter

Turnstile seem to be opening up doors for this particular subculture the way Nirvana did for theirs, but based on this interview, I think Turnstile's in a much healthier place than that band was when they blew up. Thinking back to Tuesday's essay, I see parallels - because those early bands (and people) were hard, they made space for the people who came after them to be themselves. And I think part of what makes a hardcore kid a hardcore kid is earnestness - hardcore doesn't really seem like a place for irony and sarcasm. It's important to believe and to try.