Hardcore punk

Hardcore punk (commonly abbreviated to hardcore or hXc) is a punk rock subgenre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s. It is generally faster, harder, and more aggressive than other forms of punk rock. Its roots can be traced to earlier punk scenes in San Francisco and Southern California which arose as a reaction against the still predominant hippie cultural climate of the time. It was also inspired by Washington, D.C., and New York punk rock and early proto-punk. Hardcore punk gener

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"Defining hardcore is like defining falling in love -- definitions really miss the point. You don't need a definition to know if you're in love or not -- you just know it. You just feel real hardcore when you experience it."

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"Hardcore is first and foremost a form of music. That is to say that there are hardcore band s out there that have nothing at all to say, and there are others that have more to say than music to play. Additionally, I believe that there are more more components to hardcore than the other music."

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"Hardcore was the suburban American response to the late-seventies punk revolution."

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