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Review title: HARDCORE IS AS ALIVE AS EVER
Product review: this is a pretty good book, with a pretty concise history of the scene, and the climate at the time. certain points i gotta disagree with though. he talks about the scene as though hardcore punk died around 1985-87, but many of the bands he cites as being originators of hardcore (agnostic front, bad religion, TSOL, murphy's law, and others) are still actively putting out cds, and playing hardcore. there are also newer bands that are very big in the scene, and he totally acts as though second and third waves of hardcore never happened. if you are new to the hardcore scene, keep in mind that just because steven blush says hardcore is dead does not mean that the hardcore scene is dead. the situation is actually quite the contrary, and the scene is alive and well, and old school hardcore is still well represented. oioioi
