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From my experience there are not very many "definitive" histories on the subject. There are a handful of books out there with good information pertaining to the history of Hardcore though. Burning Fight comes to mind as does "Our Band Could Be Your Life." The Decline of Western Civilization is also ...

Iwakura will be going on a short tour to the Midwest in August with LYED from Austin, TX. The dates are as follows...

August 1st - St. Louis, MI @ Lemp Arts Center *
August 2nd - Champaign, IL *
August 3rd - Chicago, IL *
August 4th - Milwaukee, WI *
August 5th - Quad Cities, IA *

This may be besides the point, but this article was not a Historiography. It was more of a primer if anything.

There is already a good deal of good advice in this thread, as well as a few other threads here as has been mentioned. My 2 cents on this is just play often, there is absolutely no substitute for practice. You can't really get around learning the fundamentals, but learning to play songs you enjoy is...

Sick.

klefmop wrote:

brianutatx wrote:the fucking topshelf nerds are coming back to my city in two weeks. ugh.

why?

I'm guessing south by southwest.

brianutatx wrote:uh oh

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New band from Denver, Colorado.

http://iwakura.bandcamp.com/

Beau Navire play in Standard almost always. There might be like one song in Drop D. Playing a half step down can help with vocals cause your voice tends to go flat naturally. Its all about Octave and Dissonant chords in this kind of music you really dont need a tuning other then Standard. alright! ...