Artistically and culturally, it’s great that the idea of hardcore — like punk in general — is broader nowadays. But never forget the original fire that forged it all in the first place, otherwise we’ll wake one day to realize we’ve all turned emo. As long as there are bareknuckle traditionalists like Terror around, ain’t no fucking way that’ll happen.
Well, the L.A. beatdown legends are coming to town to keep our compass true and our chins hard with songs of pure primal aggression. Opening will be a crew of Florida furies including South Florida hardcore unit Collateral, Tampa crossover thrashers Cold Steel and hometown hard-hitters Watts. This will be a pit for the ages. Stay home, poseurs.
6 p.m. Thursday, March 5, Conduit, conduitfl.com, $25.
