Here are NYC legends Sick of It All, still rocking the house in the Netherlands, just a couple years ago. Hardcore and all its offshoots are still very popular outside the US, and that gives me hope. Music itself has an incredible ability to cross boundaries, and powerful music has even more so.
This also ties into my profound belief that loud, wild rock 'n' roll is in and of itself a kind of fountain of youth. The guys in Sick of It All have to be pushing sixty at this point in the game, yet they sound better than ever, and work the stage better than bands a third their age.
Of course, my other profound belief is that this is nothing new at all, merely a technological updating of the oldest music in the world. It's all hardwired into the human brain, whatever else is going on out there these days.
This also ties into my profound belief that loud, wild rock 'n' roll is in and of itself a kind of fountain of youth. The guys in Sick of It All have to be pushing sixty at this point in the game, yet they sound better than ever, and work the stage better than bands a third their age.
Of course, my other profound belief is that this is nothing new at all, merely a technological updating of the oldest music in the world. It's all hardwired into the human brain, whatever else is going on out there these days.
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