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Kevin Crowley, The Abused and NYHC logo

Images: The Abused cover from vinylnoize.com; show flyers from myspace.com/theabusednyc/photos Kevin Crowley, singer and drawer of The Abused, is a reference for quite a number of people when…

Michael Bukowski illustrating hardcore covers

Images from lastchanceillustration.com Meet Michael Bukowski, an illustrator for bands like Shark Attack, Poison Idea, Poison the Well, Strength Approach, Comeback Kid,  Your Demise, Donnybrook, Casey Jones or Most Precious…

Noah Butkus and Death Threat: Literally brotherhood

“Friends and family”, a recurrent trope in Death Threat’s lyrics, also holds true when it comes to their layout. It was all done by Noah Butkus, the younger…

Crass, Gee Vaucher and beyond

Crass equals Gee Vaucher as Black Flag does Pettibon. Vaucher is the one responsible for Crass’s artwork. Rather punk than hardcore but thrilling enough to be no.3 in…

Art by Raymond Pettibon — Black Flag and beyond

Images: (1) shavedneck.com, (2) obeyclothing.com/blog, (3) dementlieu.com It was quite an awkward sight at MOCA’s Art in the Streets exhibition to see flyers for Black Flag shows framed….

Dave Bett and Revelation Records

[1] Youth of Today’s “Break Down the Walls” from doublecrossxx.com How can a live photo of Elvis look more hardcore than one of Judge? A while ago, I…