by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on NYHC Saturday – Necrotic Society, The Errorists @ Tompkins Square Park // H2O, SHUTDOWN, Farenheit 451 & others @ Le Poisson Rouge
The blog was in a hiatus for few years. I just got busy with my money projects, not to sound as an excuse, but a Saturday full of punk and hardcore made me realize how much I miss taking pictures…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Black metal solo project ADORN 16 issues debut EP BESY
Zeke Gase is an interesting character – filmmaker, ex-frontman of a black metal band, originally from Baku, Azerbaijan and now living in Brooklyn. He just issued the debut EP of his new project ADORN 16 and I have to say…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Song Of The Night #62 – Descendents – When I get old
“Will I sit around and talk about the old days Sit around and watch T.V I never want to go that way Never burn out not fade away As I travel through my time Will I like what I find”…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Punk Island 2019 – 4 awesome bands to watch out for
Lush Saturday afternoon on a tiny island between Manhattan, Queens and The Bronx called Randall’s Island. Local punk, hardcore, ska bands rotate on 9 stages, the feeling is something between a toxic wasteland and a fresh meadow outside of NYC!…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Modest Mouse At Kings Theatre: Worth The Trip
I was pleasantly surprised to make my first visit to the opulent Kings Theatre in Flatbush, Brooklyn this Tuesday. The historical venue first opened in 1929 as a combination of vaudeville and movie theater – when vaudeville wasn’t trendy anymore,…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Strugare @ Petnoto, Plovdiv
I didn’t plan on writing any reviews during my Christmas stay in Bulgaria, but this is Bulgaria so usually things don’t go as planned. At my first evening back to Plovdiv I went out to see some of my friends.…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Hardcore X-Mass 2017: Eastern Europe’s Finest
I was so lucky to catch this year’s Hardcore X-Mass edition at Mixtape Club in Sofia representing Eastern European’s Finest HC bands (and not only) right for the holiday season! In the beginning I was a bit sceptic about the…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Catching up with The Flux Machine
If you haven’t heard The Flux Machine yet it’s perfect time – the NYC rocknrollers just got their second album “Hurricane” out and are doing their album release at The Bitter End on Thursday . I saw them at Pianos…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Catching up with Vinny from Murphy’s Law
Have you heard of Murphy’s Law? One of the most fun bands to emerge from the NYC Hardcore Scene. The band, which draws influence from skate punk, ska, metal, weed and hardcore formed in the 80s in Astoria, Queens around…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on RIP Boro Brodnik
Life is very very unfair sometimes, to the point that you can’t even comprehend why things like that happen. Yesterday my friend Boro Brodnik – frontman and mastermind behind two of the most prominent underground bands in the past years…