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Design by Shruthi Krishnakumar<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Mario Sierra<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On September 22, Thiscityhatesyou and Loser (formerly known as Spaz), played their unofficial first show together. Independently organized by members of both bands, the set took place on the Charles River Esplanade. The show consisted of an hour and a half of loud, raw, emotional music and short protest speeches\u2014a combination that eventually drew a noise complaint and a shutdown by the police. This event showcases only a fragment of the music scene currently generating in Boston, packed with the DIY ethos that has resided in the city since the 1980s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the course of a week, I had the pleasure of interviewing both Thiscityhatesyou (TCHY) and Loser, alongside KeepYourDistance (KYD), which features members of both bands. KYD consists of Aiden (vocals), Michael and Xavier (guitar), Ryder (bass), and John (drums). They played their first show on February 3 at the Middle East Club Upstairs in Cambridge. The self-proclaimed post-hardcore and emo quintet and I spoke for around two minutes before they got on stage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mario: Why this style of music specifically? Why this genre?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xavier: I don\u2019t think it\u2019s anything specific, we just fuck with the music and it feels good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryder: We kinda just came together and made some good music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aiden: Big into the emo, big into the post-hardcore\u2014and that\u2019s what we play. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike: This is just the main shit I listen to, so it\u2019s what I want to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mario: What inspires you to write\u2014maybe something that doesn\u2019t fit the genre? What is an outside inspiration for you? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryder: I like art rock. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

John: Emotion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xavier: I guess the same thing as them. I\u2019m big into the blues and shit, and I like to feel when I play, so that kinda plays into it a lot when I write shit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aiden: I write my lyrics. I\u2019m just emo, so I write my lyrics emo. Or I write about, like, being a kid or something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike: One of my biggest influences is shoegaze. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mario: This is your first show, right? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aiden: This is KYD\u2019s first show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mario: Yes! How are you gonna get the crowd hype?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aiden: I\u2019m just gonna pretend to be Parker Cannon and see how it goes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punk band Loser played their album release show on February 3 at the Middle East Club Upstairs, with KYD and TCHY opening for them. Loser consists of Emmett (vocals), Hal and Xavier (guitar), Milo (bass), and Griffin (drums). All five members and I stood outside in the cold and talked for around ten minutes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mario: Firstly, what drew you into this style of music specifically\u2014the \u201880\u2019s hardcore type of thing?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emmett: I mean, me and Milo were both raised\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milo: We were fucking raised on it. I was named after the singer of the Descendents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emmett: Yeah, and in an apathetic society, where it\u2019s like phones and stuff like that, I think that punk rock teaches you to express yourself. That\u2019s what originally drew me to hardcore, but I\u2019ve been listening to it since I was eight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Griffin: Green Day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hal: Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xavier: Hardcore music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mario: How does it feel to interact with everyone\u2014all the stage diving and the mic grabbing?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xavier: They fucking kneed me in the balls, but it was fucking awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Griffin: I\u2019m the drummer; I didn\u2019t know that was happening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hal: I\u2019m kinda looped up in singing and trying to stay on the mic and shit. It\u2019s easy to feed off the energy coming from the crowd, and it\u2019s really infectious. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milo: I could express every emotion that I\u2019ve felt in the last year, all at once. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emmett: Hearing people sing songs that I wrote in my bedroom, crying while writing the lyrics, makes my heart whole. Having that community and that whole unity aspect\u2014everybody singing our songs and our lyrics\u2014is really fucking motivating and makes me wanna live my life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Griffin: I would say, knowing that that happened is fucking incredible, man, being able to bring that energy that we all feel.And everybody that\u2019s a scene kid, you know, music hits us differently: We get chills listening to our favorite chorus. Knowing that we, as humans and as regular people, have the capacity to bring that to other human beings in a room is why I love music so much. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milo: Also, I feel like today, it\u2019s so fucking hard to find a place where you feel safe and okay\u2014where you can be yourself. Being able to bring that for someone is, like, pretty fucking amazing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xavier: I remember when they asked me to join, the one thing I was excited about was like, \u201cThese are my boys.\u201d But the more I thought about it, I feel like it\u2019s really hard to find people that are just, like, really open . . . trying to be open-minded and hear another point other than their own. It\u2019s just really nice to talk about what I feel is true. I grew up in a household where I really couldn\u2019t do that at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mario: What are some influences that you guys have that people wouldn\u2019t realize are influences for you? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emmett: \u201890s hip-hop: NWA, Ice-T, Ice Cube, Jurassic 5\u2014all those fucking guys. Hip-hop is punk rock. It\u2019s rebellious music; it\u2019s politically conscious music. So I fucking love \u201890s hip-hop. And, a lot of funk: Funkadelic, Ohio Players\u2014shit like that is where I got a lot of the groove that I write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hal: For me, I\u2019m really influenced by shoegaze, so I\u2019m always tryna play with pedals more and just create wild, crazy sounds on stage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xavier: I guess I could\u2019ve shown my influence there with the blues shit . . . \u2018cause again, I\u2019m new, so I don\u2019t really write any of the stuff with them, or yet, you know? A lot of the blues shit\u2014I fucking love the blues, I love all that. I grew up listening to Stevie Ray Vaughn, and I\u2019ve been into Kingfish. That\u2019s my shit, man. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milo: Karl Alvarez from the Descendents. Fingerstyle all day long\u2014that\u2019s just all Karl Alvarez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Griffin: A lot of Chris Cornell\u2019s solo work. Pretty much everything under the umbrella of grunge. Nirvana, and I would say Green Day likes as much hate as they get. They\u2019re one of my favorite bands. They write hooks like fucking motherfuckers. Dave Grohl, but that\u2019s expected\u2014veryone\u2019s influenced by Dave Grohl. Nora Jones, I fucking love Nora Jones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mario: How do you handle balancing your political activism with having fun and being silly on stage?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emmet: I mean, on stage you see Griffin and me showing our nipples, and we like to have fun. But mixed in with that are good hooks and a politically conscious message with good lyrics. I love punk rock because you can mix melodies and hooks with political music. People get hooks stuck in their heads, and it provokes thought. It\u2019s about putting on a show and making sure people are having fun with their friends. That\u2019s another thing:  I love each and every one of these guys, you know, and one of them\u2019s my fucking brother. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xavier: I think it is 100 percent important to talk about these things. But when you talk about balance\u2014-my whole thing is because of how my stepdad raised me. His thing was that people are passionately ignorant and ignorantly passionate about everything. You\u2019re gonna want to fucking shout and scream about everything, but at the same time, you have to embrace the love in your life. We\u2019re low-key going through the same shit all the time because of hate, so I think it\u2019s important to talk about these things,to bring awareness, and to really do something about it. At the same time, I just try to find myself in grace and to appreciate all my homies around me who make me a better person every day. I just try to remember all the love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milo: For me, \u201cfun\u201d is kind of relative. It\u2019s being able to let off anger at the political and serious things. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s \u201cfun,\u201d but that\u2019s what I\u2019d want to be doing more than anything else. I enjoy letting off that anger because it helps me, and so I guess that\u2019s fun. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hal: Yeah, I was gonna say it really comes down to the songwriting. You gotta like the groove and the melody in order to get that message across. I feel like that\u2019s where the divide between fun and political shit comes in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Griffin: We are all just straight from hate, man. We\u2019re all coming from the same place: hate and fear. Those two energies are so closely intertwined and driving each other. Yes, punk rock is very political, but I think, especially in this day and age, it\u2019s important to vocalize that and not act [violently]. If we look at the greats in history who really ended some tough times,  they were all peaceful. They didn\u2019t do shit, yet this world is fucked enough to have just killed them, you know? MLK didn\u2019t hurt a soul, man, and he was doing God\u2019s work, but he died. People like that don\u2019t get what they deserve, which is why it\u2019s the toughest thing to be loving and peaceful. That\u2019s the most badass thing a human being can do, and that\u2019s what we all need to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xavier: My last thing is that hate is genuinely a generational trauma. I came from a very MAGA household. My mom came from the Philippines\u2014just a very \u201chard\u201d brain. I don\u2019t blame her, but I think showing that love is important because . . . I mean, before I met all these guys and everyone else here, I had a core group of homies who genuinely showed me community. Being able to find that\u2014having that\u2014was everything. That\u2019s what it\u2019s all about. [We\u2019re] a community that the government is trying to divide and conquer. It\u2019s all the media. I thought we all learned that fucking propaganda was the thing, dude? It\u2019s all about love, man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

TCHY was formed in the early fall of 2025, consisting of Willow and Carmen (vocals), Aiden and Zane (guitar), Levi (bass), and Grant (drums). Since then, they\u2019ve played shows in New York and Providence alongside bands such as Ted Williams, Ursa, and mybodywasfoundinahollowtree. The emoviolence sextet and I shared some pizza and talked about the life that surrounds their band. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mario: What got you into this genre and style of music personally? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aiden: I was big into hardcore, so I like those mosh-music vibes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grant: My first show was CATALYST, so I got to see a great intro to the genre. Obviously, I wanted to start some new shit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carmen: Yeah, me too. I\u2019m also from Rhode Island, and CATALYST just got really big. I started going to shows at this place called Al Dios, which is no longer a venue, but I started going to shows there and I loved it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Levi: I just like shit that sounds disgusting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zane: Honestly, there\u2019s like two things. One is the skate scene. A lot of my homies who skated listened to this type of stuff, and also Levi\u2014I feel like he kinda put me onto screamo. Partly through the skate scene, I met [XXX], and they started Blursday. They put on sick-ass DIY shows, and that introduced me to the New York scene. Shoutout Blursday! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Willow: I got into this genre because my best friend, Connor, actually took me to a Vs Self show. I think it was Vs Self, CATALYST, and, like, three other bands at the Market Hotel. That\u2019s what started it, but I think the most memorable show that I went to that really got me involved in all that shit was actually the first Blursday show. The Screamo BBQ? That shit was sick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mario: What are some unconventional influences that you guys have\u2014maybe stuff that\u2019s not necessarily screamo or hardcore?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aiden: American Football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grant: American Football. Lowkey, a lot of jazz for drumming. But, yeah, I would say American Football is a huge influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carmen: I really liked that people were making clothes and zines, and when I saw those [DIY] spaces . . . that\u2019s where I could find more of that and more inspiration. I kept going to shows because I was really interested in the artwork and also in the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Levi: My dad used to play a lot of grunge music when I was a kid. He\u2019s from Seattle, so I feel like a lot of that influenced me\u2014Alice in Chains and shit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zane: I listen to a lot of, like, really sad, folky, emo stuff. I feel like screamo and sad emo coexist very well. You have the same emotion\u2014like, I can just sit in my room and cry to some sad shit, or I could scream really loudly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Willow: This is kinda hard for me, but when I think about my musical background, I did a lot of choral music throughout high school. I feel like, in a weird way, that influenced me\u2014or at least made me see how different parts of a song work together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mario: What are your favorite aspects of the crowd? I also want you to talk about the \u201cthis city hates you\u201d call-out.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zane: Motherfuckers who throw down\u2014I just love watching people mosh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Willow: Just, like, seeing people move around and, I guess, express their energy. And [as for the call-out], I love that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grant: It\u2019s a moment where everyone who\u2019s listening can stop, kind of, like, beating each other up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Levi: Also, I feel like I just remember going to shows when I was younger and moshing\u2014like, moshing hard. It\u2019s fun to see other people moshing hard to our music; that\u2019s just awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aiden: When you\u2019re playing something that makes people move like that, it\u2019s a good feeling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grant: Yeah, you know, reciprocated energy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carmen: I think for me\u2014I don\u2019t mosh; I get scared I\u2019m gonna get hurt. So I really respect the people. If that\u2019s how the music makes them feel\u2014and they do it, and I can be a part of it, and it helps them in a way\u2014then I respect that. It\u2019s something that I don\u2019t understand, which is also what makes it attractive to me. I mean, that\u2019s not how I release my energy, but I think it\u2019s really cool that that\u2019s how people want to do it. And for the call-out, it kind of just started while practicing\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zane: Kind of an accidental thing. It was like, \u201cYo, let\u2019s just yell it,\u201d and then we were like, \u201cOh wait, this kind of works for the song.\u201d I feel like that\u2019s also the message of just some real shit, like being from New York City. It\u2019s fucking hard to live in a city; it\u2019s fucking hard to pay rent and to get a job. Just the lifestyle of a city is hard. Most cities are kind of just\u2014I feel like they just hate people, and the government, and gentrification. Cities are just . . . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Levi: They don\u2019t want to see you win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zane: Yeah, they don\u2019t want to see you win. And that was also the preface for part of our band name\u2014the lifestyle of being in a city and the hard things you face. That goes for everyone. So, this city hates you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mario: What are your favorite places that you\u2019ve played besides Boston? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TCHY: Laundromat, New York City. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carmen: That was insane. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zane: Best show ever; it got to be in my hometown. And that was our first show, so it was like\u2014seriously, it was fucking memorable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mario: Final question: How did it feel adding Carmen to the lineup\u2014having two vocalists? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Willow: I have a story for that. I remember I was in Zane and Grant\u2019s dorm one day and we were just sitting down. They asked me what I would think about adding a second vocalist, and I told them, \u201cOnly if it\u2019s Carmen.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zane: That experience was sick. How it happened was, we were doing the laundromat show and Grant was like, \u201cYo, can Carmen read a spoken-word poem? She\u2019s a dope-ass writer.\u201d And so we were like, \u201cFuck yeah.\u201d She wrote a poem for one of our songs and did it spoken-word, and then she just kind of started screaming with Willow. We were all like, \u201cYo, that was dope.\u201d So we were like, \u201cLet\u2019s add Carmen.\u201d Ever since then, it\u2019s been sick. Also, the contrast\u2014she\u2019s got kind of a higher scream and Willow\u2019s lower, so it works really, really well harmonically. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carmen: I have never felt so supported and encouraged. I have a space where I can just be as creative as they want to be; I\u2019m very heard and never pressured. I genuinely feel so loved. From the beginning, I got to hear them practice before I was in the band, and I was like, \u201cOh my god, I would listen to this every single day.\u201d So then when they were like, \u201cOh, do you want to join?\u201d it was like, \u201cOh my god, what? Like yes!\u201d It\u2019s been literally the best. It\u2019s the best. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The local heavy music scene in Boston has always had a rich history. From Converge in the \u201890s, to Have Heart in the \u201800s, and Pat Flynn influencing basically every band that came from the Northeast after 2008, Boston hardcore remains one of the liveliest iterations of a DIY scene. These newer bands, Thiscityhatesyou, LOSER, and KeepYourDistance, are keeping the movement alive and modernizing it for the better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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