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Category: Hardcore History

  • Darkness Promises

    January 21, 2026

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    Hardcore History

    Aside from Matt Wascovich, Scarcity of Tanks that night included Weasel Walter, Kid Millions, Jim Sauter of Borbetomagus, John Morton from the electric eels and Nick from Necking. Read more

  • The Future Sound of Rumford

    January 15, 2026

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    Hardcore History

    Just shy of three decades ago: Lucas Abela’s first US tour, sharing the stage with Deerhoof and Crank Sturgeon at the legendary Geno’s in Maine. Abela had his first ever snowball fight, during which he pegged an unmarked police car with a snowball. Read more

  • Big Gas Cycles

    January 5, 2026

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    Hardcore History

    1998? Read more

  • Wed. August 20

    August 20, 2025

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    Hardcore History

    Gawddam, what a lineup. Love Combat’s “first date of 3-day tour.” Ambitious run, real weekend warrior shit… Read more

  • A Movable Festival

    May 10, 2025

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    Hardcore History

    May-day — I forget whether by Zenobia’s sole decree, or by the unanimous vote of our community — had been declared a movable festival. It was deferred until the sun should have had a reasonable time to clear away the snowdrifts along the lee of the stone walls, and bring out a few of the Read more

Thought:

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The notion of cyclical time was crucial to Native Americans. For them, sacred events recur again and again in a pattern that repeats the cycles of the celestial sphere.

Time does not progress along a linear path but moves in a cyclical manner so as to provide an enclosure within which events occur.

Past, present, and future all exist together because the cycles turn continually upon themselves.

The progression of time along a developmental path was a concept foreign to Native Americans until the Europeans forced them into history.

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Joy Williams | “Crazy Injuns”

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