#hardcore-punk

#hardcore-punk

I was living in fear of the next fucked-up experience, he says. Sitting in a store room above the London venue his band Militarie Gun will later fill with shoutalong aggro-pop energy, the singer is jetlagged but animated as he puts himself back there, his sandy hair peeking from beneath the hood of his sweatshirt. Twice, my bus pulled up as an ambulance pulled away from our house, he continues.

Bruce Loose, the vocalist and bassist of the influential San Francisco hardcore band Flipper, has died, the band's drummer Stephen DePace confirmed in an email to Pitchfork. Loose had previously suffered a stroke and was recovering at home in Humboldt, California, where he is believed to have died from a heart attack on September 5. He was 66 years old.

They sort of made hardcore what it is, with Ian's vocals and the whole straight-edge 'no drink-no drugs' thing. They started a new era.