In what might have been one of the most inadvertently punk speeches of the weekend, a gentleman working the venue prefaced Homewrecker's set...
The most exciting moments of Malfunction's set didn't come when they played their newer, more metalcore-leaning songs, but when they played...
It has to be a challenge to play dark music in the daylight, especially when the venue is awash in it thanks to a wall of windows. Eternal S...
You know you're in for something special when the pit explodes before the music even starts, and so it was when Ottawa's Iron Golem announce...
Expire came up through the hardcore scene — actually, the last time they played Heart Fest was on their rise — and expanded beyo...
The last time No Warning played Canada was a decade ago, in Quebec with Sum 41 and Yellowcard — "the pop punk band with the violin," a...
Hours after a 60-minute break for a church service to happen upstairs at the venue, Chicago punishers Harm's Way took the stage. It was an a...
"We got strip-searched at the border. We're Cruel Hand. Let's go," was the first utterance of this Portland, Maine band's set. Sure, the six...
Prodigal son Evan MacIsaac returned from Calgary with "Ottawa Hardcore" emblazoned on his back. Yes, he was wearing his own band's shirt, bu...
