mr president
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a [second](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz-tCoXxKpc) 90s converge live show has hit the towers

hardcore is dance music, not fight music. it is for the presence of purpose, not absence of kindness. hardcore is free expression without barrier; beating someone with your fists for not agreeing with you is not that. i think the reason modern "hardcore" is just sad guy fight metal and not hardcore punk is because the scene does not revolve around music or message, but around the vibe. the hardcore vibe entrenched by the violent, oppressive, tense environment of minor threat, fugazi and TSOL is what has stuck around. the vibe of clenching your jaw, feet flying, knowing violence can happen at any time and its unfair because you didnt do anything you just wanted to have fun and these people want to hurt you and why and why but its not right and your friends know its not right and your friends arent small anymore you're not small anymore you wont let them hurt you, so come, and fight.

the issue is, that vibe was present because cops, jocks, and nazi's would come and beat the fuck out of people for no reason, and violence was met with violence. now those people dont bother hardcore shows, but the vibe is *needed*, it needs to stay, so someone needs to fill that antagonism to maintain the vibe. this is where we get middle aged mosh crew dickheads spinkicking 16 year old girls.

