Author: Mart Kawaii

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…

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…

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!…

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,…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…