Big Laugh (record release) • Hotline TNT • Direct Threat • World I Hate • Innuendo
Fri 02/17/23
5:30PM
All Ages
music
$18 ADV // $20 DOS
Show Lineup
Big Laugh
(Milwaukee, WI)
Genre: Hardcore
For decades, the upper Midwest of the United States has been a hotspot for hardcore bands that bend genres and refuse to stick to tired formulas, producing acts like Husker Du and Die Kreuzen. Milwaukee, WI’s Big Laugh is here to continue that tradition, with a sound that finds them as much at home playing DIY shows in dingy basements as playing large clubs alongside some of hardcore and punk’s luminaries. With high ambitions, Big Laugh is centered on creating whatever they want however they want, and “Consume Me” is just the next step for this young band.
World I Hate
(Milwaukee, WI)
Genre: Hardcore, Metal, Powerviolence
Music journalists love to celebrate hardcore that they perceive as clever, boundary-pushing, or innovative, but for all the lip service paid to novelty, hardcore’s efficacy can actually be gauged by one incredibly simple metric: Its ability to incite a room full of maladjusted goons to extreme violence. Measured with that barometer, Milwaukee’s World I Hate is ten times the hardcore band any flavor of the week act could ever hope to be.
Initially formed at the end of 2018, World I Hate released their debut EP Collapse in 2020 and played their first show in 2021. The band performs a brand of hyper-competent, no frills hardcore that combines the best parts of the genre’s last 25 or so years into a potent and hard-hitting formula that’s nearly impossible to dislike. The fact that their lineup is bolstered by a member of Texas stalwarts Judiciary doesn’t hurt matters.
If you prefer your heavy music to have radio-ready choruses and crossover appeal, look elsewhere. But if you’re in the market for unrelenting capital “H” Hardcore that is unconcerned with trends, look no further than World I Hate.
INNUENDO
(Milwaukee, WI)
Genre: Hardcore
Milwaukee hardcore punk from the minds that brought you DAGGER and MiSTER.