Matt Anderson
Heroin, Gravity Records
In 1991 Matt founded Gravity Records as a vehicle to release several of the budding bands in San Diego, California including his own band, Heroin. Gravity’s early releases grew to define a new sound in hardcore rooted in tradition but boasting a chaotic sound that showcased a new approach to hardcore. And they looked noticeably different with hand screen-printed covers and unique packaging. Matt recently played in Spacehorse and lives in San Diego where he continues to run Gravity Records.
gravityrec.com
Al Barkley
Industrial Cows, Contrast, Brave New World, X (fanzine)
As an isolated skateboarder in Rhode Island, Al started Shredder skate ’zine with a friend in 1986 and was instantly hooked. That obsession lead to his own label and distro which eventually grew into Contrast Records, a punk/hardcore record store in Providence, Rhode Island. After the Contrast store closed in 2004, Al shifted focus and began traveling the world.
albarkley.com
Brett Beach
Hardware fanzine
Brett co-founded Hardware fanzine with David Koenig and ran In My Blood Records which released the Division One Champs 7” by Floorpunch. He currently lives in Red Bank, New Jersey.
David Bett
David began designing for the independent music industry in his role as art director for Relativity Records in 1987. He then worked on a string of recognizable releases for Revelation Records and In-Effect Records including Youth of Today, Bold, Judge, and Sick of It All. He is now a Grammy-nominated director of design at Columbia Records/Sony BMG working with Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Aerosmith, and AC/DC, as well as emerging artists. Dave is currently a married father of three living in Long Island, New York.
Brian Brannon
JFA
In 1981, at the tender age of 14, Brian Brannon snuck out of his bedroom window to check out a punk show at the Hate House in Phoenix, Arizona. More than 27 years later, Brian continues to sing for forefathers of the skate punk movement, JFA. Brian has worked as staff writer, art director and music editor of Thrasher magazine, editor for Evidence magazine, skateboarding editor for Bluetorch TV, editor of the Seal Beach Sun newspaper, marketing manager for The Firm Skateboards, and production manager for Birdhouse Skateboards, where he produced the 2007 skate video The Beginning. He is now living in Huntington Beach, California, with his wife, daughter, and two Rottweilers. Brian skates and surfs every chance he gets and continues to freelance for The Skateboard Mag, Concrete Wave, and Michael Cornelius’ website skaterock.com.
Chris Bratton
Justice League, Chain of Strength, No For An Answer, Inside Out, Drive Like Jehu, Statue
Chris Bratton has founded and played drums for several influential California hardcore bands including Chain of Strength and Inside Out. Chris joined former members of Scream in the band Wool in the early 1990s. Chris is currently living in Los Angeles, California where he jams regularly with London May of Samhain.
Shawn Brown
Dag Nasty, Swiz, Fury
Upon leaving Dag Nasty’s original line up in 1986 Shawn formed Swiz with some Washington, D.C. locals, including a guitarist named Jason Farrell whom he recognized from a local skateboard shop. After several releases and tours, Swiz disbanded in the early 1990s. The members reformed under the name Sweetbelly Freakdown in 1996. Shawn also fronted Northern Mistep and Jesuseater. He is currently a full-time tattoo artist at Great Southern Tattoos in College Park, Maryland.
Erik Brunetti
Erik is an American artist and designer, best known for his foundation of the brand Fuct. He is credited as a creator of subversive streetwear, a style of designing stemming from the situationist movement which involves subtly changing or re-appropriating various pop culture themes and icons, as well as anti-government, anti-religion campaigns. Growing up in Philadelphia, Brunetti played in various punk bands. In 1984 while still attending high school he discovered graffiti and started bombing. He has written the tag Den One for over 20 years.
Tom Capone
Beyond, Bold, Shelter, Quicksand
Tom Capone grew up in Long Island, New York where he founded the band Beyond at age 16. He played in several hardcore bands before forming Quicksand with Walter Schreifels, one of the first post-hardcore bands to sign to a major label. After touring the world and recording a 7″ and two major label albums with Quicksand he went on to join Handsome which featured members of Helmet and Cro-Mags. In 2002 Tom joined the band Instruction. He is now living in upstate New York and getting ready to unleash a promising new band.
Christopher Cannon
Christopher is a graphic designer living in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and baby boy. He works on a wide variety of projects and freelances on the side as Isotope 221.
Chris Casali
Co-founder of How’s Your Edge and The Collection Space. Chris is married and a proud father living in Rhode Island.
howsyouredge.com
thecollectionspace.com
Curtis Casella
Taang! Records
After buying Chris Spedding and the Vibrators’ “Pogo Dancing” b/w “The Pose” 45 in 1976, Curtis abandoned glam and dove straight into punk rock. He founded Taang! Records in 1984 releasing Gang Green’s debut 7” Sold Out. He eventually opened a Taang! store front in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The store relocated to San Diego, California in the early 1990s where Curtis lives and continues to operate the label and store.
taang.com
Jordan Cooper
Revelation Records
Jordan Cooper, started Revelation Records with Ray Cappo in 1987 to release Warzone’s debut 7“. The label relocated from New Haven, Connecticut to Huntington Beach, California in the early 1990s where Jordan continues to run the day-to-day operations.
revelationrecords.com
Chase E. Corum
Chase lives in Newport Beach, California where he is an attorney, a boat captain, and the owner of Prime Directive Records.
myspace.com/primedirectiverecords
Sean Cronan
Sean grew up in Connecticut skateboarding and photographing bands like Endpoint, Split Lip, By the Grace of God, Falling Forward, Another Wall, Lifetime, Texas is the Reason, Supertouch, Mouthpiece, and Ressurection. He has previously worked as a staff photographer for Tum Yeto Inc., Transworld Skateboarding, and Big Brother. Currently, Sean is the staff photographer for Zoo York skateboards.
seancronanphotography.com
Vic DiCara
Beyond, Inside Out, Shelter, 108, The Enquirer fanzine
Vic DiCara currently plays in the reformed 108. Previously he has worked in web development and, in early 2008 Vic began a career as a Vedic Astrologer. He lives in Escondido, California with his family.
static-void.com
Mike Down
Amenity, Forced Down, Down Side Records
Raised in San Diego, California, Mike founded Down Side records and the Down Organization, booking hundreds of shows at all ages venues. He has since lived in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and New York, working as a solo artist, producer, promoter, and nightlife specialist. He has recorded with Sean Paul, the Pharcyde, and DJ Rob Dinero.
myspace.com/mikedown
Courtney Dubar
Courtney began screen-printing merchandise for Uniform Choice, and the other bands on his brother Pat’s Wishingwell Records label, in a shed in his parent’s backyard. He eventually started his own screen-printing company which has blossomed into several successful business ventures. Courtney currently lives in Southern California.
Pat Dubar
Uniform Choice, Unity,
Wishingwell Records
In the mid-1980s Pat consulted Ian MacKaye about releasing his band Uniform Choice’s debut record on Dischord Records. Dischord’s policy for only releasing bands native to Washington, D.C. inspired Pat to start Wishingwell Records, which became the home for several Southern California hardcore bands including Uniform Choice, Unity, and Insted. Pat currently lives in Southern California.
Kevin Egan
Beyond, 1.6 Band, The Last Crime
Kevin has been working in television for the last six years, most notably on the daytime talk show The View. He currently lives in Austin, Texas where he spends too much money at the amply stocked record stores the city has to offer. Kevin’s current musical project is the acoustic outfit Twenty Four Thousand Dollars.
Jason Farrell
Swiz, Fury, Bluetip
Jason’s passion for music, skateboarding, and graphic design started in the early 1980s and led him to a career as an art director, designer, and filmmaker. His signature guitar playing and design work continues to inspire and evolve. Jason currently lives in Los Angeles, California and plays guitar in Retisonic.
retisonic.com
jasonfarrelldesign.com
Jon Field
Up Front, Grip, Dayspring, Cycle
Jon currently resides in Richmond, Virginia with his wife and two daughters where he works as a web designer.
Joe D. Foster
Unity, Ignite
After playing guitar for Orange County, California hardcore band Unity in the mid 1980s, Joe began a successful modeling career. In the early 1990s his renewed interest in playing traditional Orange County hardcore he grew up on led him to form Ignite. He currently lives in Southern California.
Glen E. Friedman
Since 1976 Glen has captured some of the most iconic moments in punk, hardcore, skateboarding and hip-hop. He is internationally known for his photographs of Fugazi, Black Flag, Ice-T, Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Beastie Boys, Run-DMC, and Public Enemy, as well as old school skateboarders Tony Alva, Jay Adams, Alan “Ollie” Gelfand, Duane Peters, and Stacy Peralta. Not only was he in the right places at an extraordinary number of appropriate times, he has helped define the moment and movements he was caught up in. His process was much more incendiary than it was documentary. Glen has published several books of his photography with his company Burning Flags Press, most recently Keep Your Eyes Open, a compilation of his photographs of Fugazi.
burningflags.com
Mike Gitter
xXx fanzine
Mike’s history has been a 25 year straight line from self-publishing xXx fanzine in his native Boston suburbs in the early 1980s through overseeing the careers of several bands including Opeth, Megadeth and Killswitch Engage. After working as a rock journalist for everyone from Thrasher to Rolling Stone he relocated to New York City where he was recruited by Atlantic Records and began what is still a long-running and successful career as an A&R man. These days he’s married, has four cats and is living in New Jersey.
myspace.com/thegitter
JJ Gonson
JJ started taking photographs of bands in Boston in the mid-1980s. After leaving Boston in 1991 JJ continued to pursue photography but never again specifically of bands for publication purposes. JJ recently returned to her hometown of Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and two children where she is a personal chef. Her photos have appeared in xXx, the Noise, Suburban Voice, Rip, Creem, Thrasher, Rolling Stone, and Spin.
Mel Gooch
Mel was introduced to hardcore in the summer of 1987 while attending summer camp with several members of Pressure Release. She grew up going to the Anthrax and spent many years driving around the East Coast attending countless shows. Mel currently works as a librarian in Brooklyn, New York.
Guav
Conviction fanzine, Conviction Records
Guav published Conviction fanzine and ran Conviction Records which released Earth Crisis’ debut 7“, All Out War. Currently he is the art director of the New York office of Bravado Merchandising, a music merchandising company.
actwondesign.com
guav.com
Luke Hoverman
Another Wall
Luke grew up on Connecticut frequenting the Anthrax club and eventually fronted Another Wall in the early-1990s. Currently he lives in New York City where he works as is a photographer.
lukehoverman.com
Jimmy Johnson
Forced Exposure fanzine
Jimmy was the editor and publisher of Forced Exposure fanzine from 1982-1990. Currently he is the owner of Forced Exposure distribution in Malden, Massachusetts. Jimmy saw Black Flag at A7, in case anybody asks.
forcedexposure.com
Casey Jones
Civil Justice, Just Because, Justice League, No For An Answer, Ignite
Casey has forged a twenty-year career playing drums in several hardcore bands as well as singing for Just Because and Justice League. Casey has been on several world tours but his personal crowning achievement was opening for Scream. He currently lives in California.
Christopher Jones
Verbal Assault
Chris was the vocalist for Rhode Island hardcore band Verbal Assault. Following the bands breakup in 1991 Chris received a History degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Chris also worked as a tour manager for the rock band Belly. He currently lives in Newport, Rhode Island.
verbalassault.com
Tonie Joy
Moss Icon, The Great Unraveling, Born Against, Universal Order of Armageddon
Tonie Joy founded Moss Icon in Annapolis, Maryland in 1986. Moss Icon’s sound and imagery sharply contrasted other hardcore bands of the their time with unique output that shunned reference or tradition. Tonie continues to play music there in the band Convocation Of.
Matt Kattman
Kingpin
Matt grew up in Holliston, Massachusetts where, at the age of 15, he was a founding member of the skate rock band Funny Wagon. He followed that with Kingpin, a band that redefined the sound of Boston hardcore in the early-1990s. During that time Matt also sang briefly for Boston hardcore band Endless. He currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island where he is continuing his education at the Rhode Island School of Design and playing in a new yet-to-be-named music project.
Theresa Kelliher
Theresa Kelliher began photographing bands in Boston, Massachusetts during the mid-1980s where she still lives.
Tim Kerr
Big Boys
Tim Kerr played guitar in Austin, Texas’ skate rock band The Big Boys in 1978. Throughout his life, he has never felt comfortable with labels and their restrictions. When someone confines him to one label, they do themselves and Tim a disservice. He is painting more than ever now and plays in an Irish and old time string band with friends in Austin and wherever his travels take him. In Tim’s own words, “I’m not dead yet. I am still active and as proud as I am of all that has happened before, I hope I haven’t seen the best thing yet.”
timkerr.net
Richard Labbate
Insted
Rich was part of the Southern California punk scene in the early 1980s. He went on to play bass in the Orange County bands Insted, Lidsville, Crashcart, and Knapsack. Rich is currently doing an old school hardcore project called The Alligators with Steve and Bear of Insted, fronted by Roger Miret of Agnostic Front. He is married and living in Orange County, California where he runs Merch.com, an online store that sells band T-shirts, skateboards, and fashion apparel.
merch.com
Ian MacKaye
The Slinkees, The Teen Idles, Minor Threat, Embrace, Fugazi, Dischord Records
Ian is a co-founder and co-owner of Dischord Records. He continues to work with the label and lives in Washington, D.C. with his partner, Amy Farina. They perform together in The Evens.
dischord.com
Charles Maggio
Rorschach, Gern Blandsten Records
Currently Charles is the lucky husband of Jennifer Klein, and a proud father of twin baby girls Avery and Mira. Charles’ straight job is as a Senior Accountant for a wholesale insurance company, but his ancillary passions include selling rare records on eBay, practicing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and collecting rare punk and hardcore records. He operates the New Jersey based Gern Blandsten Records, a label he founded in 1992.
gernblandsten.com
Dave Mandell
Indecision fanzine, Indecision Records
Dave started going to shows in Southern California in the mid-1980s but it was his love of photography that led him to create the Indecision fanzine in the early 1990s. Several issues later Dave expanded Indecision with the release of Strife’s debut 7“. Dave lives in Orange County, California but he is consistently traveling as a documentary photographer covering the Ultimate Fighting Championships.
indecisionrecords.com
Robert Mars
Crucial Youth
Also know as “Ollie Grind,” Robert played guitar for New Jersey based Crucial Youth, the most successful straight edge parody band to date. As a designer Robert recently created a collection of mens and womens apparel for Lewsader, under the special label “Robert Mars: Hi-Caliber”. He has designed for Adidas, Akademiks, PRPS, Ride Snowboards, 5 Boro Skateboards, Bonfire Snowboard Clothing, Element Skateboards, ESPN X Games Division, and numerous other action sports companies. As a painter he has shown in galleries in Tokyo, Munich, Portland, New York, Vancouver, Melbourne, Los Angeles and Austin.
robertmars.com
lewsadercollective.com
Steve Martin
F.U.’s, Straw Dogs, Agnostic Front
Steve started playing in hardcore bands as a teenager in the early-1980s. Steve eventually joined Agnostic Front at the age of 20. He founded the independent public relations firm Nasty Little Man out of his East Village bedroom in 1993. Steve has amassed a roster including Beastie Boys, Foo Fighters and John Joseph of the Cro-Mags. He has also worked with Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Beck, the Arcade Fire, Spoon, and Ryan Adams, among others. Steve lives in New York City with his wife Grace, whom he first met at a CBGB matinee “back in the day,” as the kids say.
Vique Martin
Simba fanzine, Simba Records
Vique Martin is currently living in California and working as the distribution manager at Revelation Records. She wrote Simba fanzine and operated Simba Records in the early 1990s to showcase the bands she loved.
Glenn Maryansky
Another Wall
Glenn is a graphic designer and drummer living in Brooklyn, New York. He currently plays drums in the band Blacklist.
listofblack.com
John Mastropaolo
No For An Answer, Unity, Uniform Choice
John’s bass playing in No For An Answer, Unity and later Uniform Choice helped forge the sound associated with the late-1980s Orange County straight edge hardcore scene. He is currently living in Long Beach, California.
Tim McMahon
Mouthpiece
Tim lives in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and is the proud parent of two. After the dissolution of Mouthpiece in the mid-1990s he formed a string of bands including Hands Tied and Face the Enemy. Currently Tim sings for Triple Threat, a straight edge hardcore band, operates Livewire Records with bandmate Ed McKirdy, and edits the online fanzine Double Cross.
doublecrosswebzine.blogspot.com
livewire-records.com
Chris Minicucci
Chris is a graphic artist from Westfield, Massachusetts. He has played in other influential Boston bands Close Call and Righteous Jams. He currently runs hardcore/ punk label Painkiller Records and plays guitar in Mind Eraser.
painkillerrecords.com
Rusty Moore
Rusty is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina. The early-1980s found him immersed in the punk and hardcore movements, where he frequently traveled up and down the East Coast to photograph bands. Rusty often photographed a band’s first set, then hiding his camera behind the bar, he would dance for the second set. Rusty is currently a documentary photographer living in Pembroke, Massachusetts.
rustymooreloudfastphoto.com
Michael Murphy
Michael started going to shows in 1984 and still lives and works in Orange County.
Adam Nathanson
Life’s Blood, Born Against, Young Pioneers
Adam is a literacy instructor in ESL, GED, and financial literacy, and a graduate student in adult literacy. He is married to Alyssa Murray of Boston with whom he has two daughters, Reina and Bella. Adam plays in Teargas Rock as well as maintaining a blog that espouses his agenda.
stakolee.blogspot.com
Jeff Nelson
The Slinkees, The Teen Idles, Minor Threat, Skewbald/Grand Union, Egg Hunt, Three, Senator Flux, The High-Back Chairs, Dischord Records.
Jeff founded Minor Threat and Dischord Records with Ian MacKaye. He now lives in Toledo, Ohio where he is writing a history of the Q Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. and collecting Jeep memorabilia. After a hiatus from music, Jeff began playing drums again with Fast Piece of Furniture who released their debut record on Adult Swim Records in 2008.
dischord.com
adultswimrecords.com
Joe Nelson
Triggerman, Ignite
Original Orange County California Sloth Crew member, Joe Nelson is working in artist relations for The Merchandise Company in Long Beach, California. He currently fronts The Killing Flame.
Gavin Ogelsby
No For An Answer, Carry Nation, Triggerman, Ignite
Gavin’s first illustration commission was for the cover of MIA’s Murder in a Foreign Place 12” [see 188.231]. He continues to work as an illustrator in Orange County, California and plays guitar in the Killing Flame.
Dan O’Mahony
No For An Answer, Carry Nation, VoiceBox, 411
Along with fronting several bands including No For An Answer and 411, Dan has written for the S.I.C. Press fanzine, Maximumrocknroll, published the books Three Legged Race and Four Letter Word and ran the Workshed Records label.
Tim Owen
Axtion Packed Records, Jade Tree Records
Tim Owen co-founded Jade Tree Records with Darren Walters which he still operates in Wilmington, Delaware.
jadetree.com
Mark Owens
Mark is a designer, writer and filmmaker working between Los Angeles and New York. He grew up in Texas skateboarding and listening to hardcore and ran a small indie label throughout the second half of the 1990s alongside his twin brother, Matt. Mark pursued a PhD in English from Duke University (ABD 1998) before earning his MFA in graphic design from Yale University in 2000. Mark’s essays have appeared in the pages of Visible Language, Grafik magazine, and the postpunk/marxist design journal Dot Dot Dot. In 2007 he co-edited the catalogue to the exhibition Forms of Inquiry at the Architectural Association in London with Zak Kyes. He has taught at Yale University and Art Center College of Design and is currently an adjunct faculty member at California Institute of the Arts.
lifeofthemind.net
BJ Papas
While attending the Fashion Institute of Technology in Chelsea, BJ used what she had learned in her photography classes to document the underground punk/hardcore scene in New York City. BJ relocated to California where she works as a commercial photographer. Her photographs can be seen in Rolling Stone, Spin, Guitar World, Blender, and Revolver.
bjpapas.com
Ernie Parada
Token Entry, Black Train Jack
Inspired by Uncle Al of Murphy’s Law and Sean Taggart’s artwork, Ernie created a unique cartoon-based illustration style that appeared on several album covers in the late 1980s. Ernie lives in Astoria, New York with his wife Sabrina, and son Ernie Jr. By day, Ernie works as an art director and illustrator, and by night he plays in Higher Giant.
ernieparada.com
myspace.com/highergiant
Gus Peña
Discipline, Ocean of Mercy
Gus Peña was born in 1969 in Queens, New York. Once upon a time he sang for Discipline and Ocean of Mercy. In the mid-1980s he would most likely be found stage diving on your head. Currently, Gus lives in North Hollywood, California and runs Chord magazine among various other endeavors.
chordmagazine.com
Philin Phlash
“Legendary in some circles, yet a virtual unknown to the larger public…” is just one of the “Phacts” you should know. Phlash grew up shooting photographs of his brother Springa’s band SSD. He went on to document live music, night life, and celebrities in his trademark “in your face style.” Phlash “was in the pit dodging bodies and battling bouncers” to get the shot. He has been published in Spin, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, and The Boston Globe.
philinphlashphotos.com
Daniel Assan Piwowarczyk
Daniel is a New York-based graphic designer and (pretentious asshole) record collector. Growing up in São Paulo, Brazil he played in the band Newspeak from 1996-2000, frequently touring with Los Crudos and Catharsis. Currently he is a creative director at Lobo studios, a Manhattan based motion graphics company.
John Porcelly
Youth of Today, Judge, Project X, Shelter, Schism fanzine, Schism Records
Known as “Porcell” to his friends, John moved from suburban Connecticut to New York City in the late-1980s where he started Schism fanzine and Records with Alex Brown. His bands Youth of Today, Judge, and Project X jump started the second wave of straight edge hardcore and helped spread it globally. John is now a graphic designer and yoga enthusiast, living in Gainesville, Florida and has two beautiful children.
Al Quint
Suburban Voice fanzine
Al continues to produce written and audio dispatches for Suburban Voice fanzine/blog and Sonic Overload radio from a secret location in the suburbs of Boston’s North Shore. He also writes regular columns for Maximumrocknroll and AMP magazine.
subvox.blogspot.com
sonicoverload.moocowrecords.com
Larry Ransom
Envy
Larry Ransom is originally from Lockport, New York where he once moshed and stood hard. He is currently living in California and working for professional skateboarder Mike Vallely was well as the comedian Tom Green. In 2008 Larry created Wasted Days TV, which he writes, directs and produces.
larryransom.com
Tony Rettman
Common Sense fanzine
Tony went to his first hardcore show at 12, published his own fanzine at 15 and was kicked out of the scene by the age of 21. Since then, Tony has had his writing published in Thrasher, Arthur, The Village Voice, Swingset, and Swindle as well as regularly contributing to the online fanzines Blastitude and Double Cross. Rettman had his scene status reinstated sometime in spring of 2006 when he purchased the Police 7” by Fucked Up and attended a show by the Boston band Mind Eraser.
ROA
Justice League, Addiction, End to End, Eyelid
ROA began buying every 7” he could afford at Toxic Shock distribution in the early-1980s before singing for Justice League. He currently works in advertising and resides in Los Angeles, California
Shaun Aaron Ross
Excel, Trendsetter fanzine
Shaun was born in Los Angeles, California in 1968. He is the son of an Italian immigrant and a Hollywood starlet. In 1985 he founded the band Excel with some of his friends from the Los Angeles graffiti crew KSN (Kings Stop at Nothing). Shaun has worked with: Dogtown, World Industries, Giant Distribution, Transworld Skateboarding, Tokion, Freshjive, Stussy, U.S.A. Shaolin Temple, Black Panther Party, Bad Brains, Kool Keith, MTV, VH1, E! Networks, and Addict Brand U.K., Currently, Shaun is a high-ranking delegate of the Fuct Love Awareness Program. He is residing and giving thanks in Little Ethiopia, Los Angeles.
Gail Rush
When punk broke in Boston, Gail was at UMass studying photography. She photographed most of the original Boston hardcore bands like SSD, DYS, F.U.’s, Jerry’s Kids, and The Freeze, on stage and off. Gail now co-owns New Alliance Audio, a recording studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband Alvan Long.
newallianceaudio.com
David “Igby” Sattanni
Igby is currently a full-time employee of Revelation Records in Huntington Beach, California. He also runs his own record label, Mankind Records, and still photographs live bands from time to time.
Davo Scheich
Davo started in photography when he was 15 with a 1950s folding camera that he found in his parents attic. The photographs that he saw in Skateboarder magazine influenced him to shoot his friends at Endless Summer skatepark, eventually turning his camera on their bands the Necros and Negative Approach. Today, Davo owns a large photo studio specializing in automotive and virtual reality photography. He still skateboards a couple times a week but it’s been years since he has been to a punk show.
davo.com
Walter Schreifels
Gorilla Biscuits, Youth of Today, Warzone, Moondog, Quicksand
Walter Schreifels writes and records for various musical projects. In the late 1990s Walter founded Some Records with Sammy Siegler and Matt Pinkus. The name Some Records is a tribute to the now defunct East Village record store of the same name. Walter currently lives in Berlin, Germany.
some.com
Kevin Seconds
7 Seconds, Drop Acid, Positive Force Records
Kevin is originally from Reno, Nevada where he formed the anthemic hardcore band 7 Seconds and started Positive Force Records. He now lives in Sacramento, California where he owns a coffee shop and continues to perform both solo and with 7 Seconds.
kevinseconds.com
Craig Setari
NYC Mayhem, Straight Ahead, Youth of Today, Rest in Pieces, Agnostic Front, Sick of It All
Craig “Ahead” lives in Queens, New York. He currently plays bass for Sick of it All who are still a full time band. When not touring Craig works as a boxing coach.
Robert Shedd
New Jersey native Robert Shedd has worked for Revelation Records and currently runs Collapse Records.
Dave Sine
Tidbits fanzine
David began documenting hardcore shows in the late 1980s for Tidbits, a fanzine he published. Dave is married and lives in New Jersey where he still goes to shows, takes lots of photographs, and rides his bicycle many miles.
flickr.com/tidbitsphotos
Dave Smalley
DYS, Down By Law, Dag Nasty, ALL
Dave Smalley was born in California and grew up in Virginia. Dave currently writes songs for a band in his church, and does occasional solo shows. Down By Law has been in semi-hiatus mode, but plans to emerge from the cocoon in the near future.
Joe Snow
Joe was an Anthrax Club regular from 1986 until its demise in 1990. He photographed many of the local bands such as Up Front and Wide Awake so they had something to use on their records. Joe is an authority of the early Connecticut punk scene which led he and his wife Sue to take the helm of the longstanding Connecticut record label, Incas Records.
incasrecords.com
Erik Lee Snyder
Growing up in Southern New Jersey, Erik discovered hardcore at the age of ten in the form of a Suicidal Tendencies cassette. He is currently living in Brooklyn, New York where he works as a photographer. Erik’s photographs have appeared in Surface magazine, ESPN magazine, and Entertainment Weekly.
erikleesnyder.com
Dave Spataro
Dave is a commercial photographer originally from Long Island, New York. He is now married with three children and living in Tampa, Florida.
davespataro.com
Dave Stein
Combined Effort Records
Dave got into hardcore in 1984 and eventually started promoting all-ages VFW hall shows in Albany, New York. He started the record label, Combined Effort and opened the East Village record shop Reconstruction Records, while still in law school. Dave is now a music business lawyer and represents many of the friends he made including Agnostic Front, Sick of It All, Madball and labels with roots in hardcore including Equal Vision and Uprising Records. While his law practice is not exclusive to hardcore, his attitude and approach is.
davestein.com
Sean Taggart
Sean Taggart was raised by hippie artists in New York City. Instead of paying attention in school or trying to find a job, Sean hung out downtown where his friends quickly recognized that he could draw. His iconic illustrations have been seen on the covers of albums by Agnostic Front, The Cro-Mags, Crumbsuckers, and the Jerky Boys, with whom Sean earned a Gold Record.
seantaggart.com
Adam Tanner
Dance of Days fanzine
After years of photographing shows up and down the East Coast, Adam collected his photographs and published Dance of Days fanzine. Since then Adam’s photographs have appeared on the cover of Hatebreed’s Satisfaction is the Death of Desire and in the pages of Alternative Press, Anti-Matter, All Ages: Reflections on Straight Edge, Rolling Stone, Second Nature, Spin, and Skyscraper.
adamtanner.com
Jeff Terranova
Up Front
Jeff took over Smorgasbord Records in 1996, which he continues to run while also playing bass in Connecticut based band No Image. In May 2001 Jeff started his radio show, The Anti-Emo Empire! on 88.7fm Wnhu Thursdays.
up-front.org
smorgasbordrecords.com
Drew Thomas
Bold, Youth of Today, Into Another
Drummer Drew Thomas got his start on the drums at the age of 13 in New York City’s hardcore scene, founding Bold and playing on and touring for Youth of Today’s Break Down the Walls 12“. He started seminal post-hardcore outfit Into Another with Richie Birkenhead, recording four albums on Revelation Records and Hollywood Records. He then started New Rising Sons with Garrett Klahn and recorded one album for Virgin Records. He is currently performing with God Fires Man and Bloody Social, both based in New York.
myspace.com/godfiresman
myspace.com/bloodysocial
Ron Vickers
Ron took photographs of several Southern California hardcore bands starting in the late 1980s. He later joined Frosty Crunch from Chain of Strength in the post-hardcore outfit Man Will Surrender who released their self-titled major label debut in 1997.
Brian Walsby
Brian lives in Raleigh North Carolina with his girlfriend and her two children. He currently plays in the band Double Negative and has three of his Manchild books out. He recently embarked on a career as a freelance artist and is trying his best to not have to get a real job again. Bug him if you want some crap drawn.
brianwalsby.com
Darren Walters
Hi-Impact Records, Railhed, Jade Tree Records
Darren Walters lives in Wilmington, Delaware where he continues to run the Jade Tree label. In addition, Darren teaches full-time in the Music Industry program at Drexel University.
jadetree.com
Rich Warwick
Rich sucked at skateboarding and was better at listening to punk and hardcore. He grew up in New Jersey, Washington, D.C., Richmond, Virginia and most importantly Philadelphia. Now residing in Brooklyn, New York he runs the record label Parts Unknown with his non-sexual life partner Jason “Jayskin” Scheller. Rich was a contributing writer to the Philadelphia Weekly, While You Were Sleeping, Swindle, and Restaurant magazine.
Casey Watson
Casey currently lives in Oakland, California where he is a program supervisor at Thunder Road Adolescent Drug Treatment Center.
Jeff Winterberg
Antioch Arrow
In addition to playing in the highly influential San Diego band Antioch Arrow, Jeff has played in False Island and Coptic Light. He began photographing bands in 1991 and his photos were published in his book Rat-A-Tat-Tat Birds. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
jeffwinterberg.com
Lenny Zimkus
Lenny works as an electrician by day, which pays the bills, amateur photographer by night doesn’t pay anything. He continues to shoot photos of bands when the mood strikes and is still involved in this scene after 22 years. Lenny is the husband of one, father of two and currently living in New Jersey.
zimkus.com
Christopher Zusi
Release, Ressurection
Chris began going to shows in the mid-1980s in New York City and all over New Jersey where he still resides. He has played guitar in Release, Ressurection, and Floorpunch.