As someone who spent entirely too much of his youth avoiding getting knocked out by dudes doing roundhouse kicks in the pit at The Muse, I can attest to the fact that the hardcore scene has been one of Nashville’s most enduring. Iconoclast, a zine dedicated to the past and present of local hardcore, is a testament to that. Since December, Iconoclast has pumped out four issues, documented the local histories of screamo and hardcore, interviewed bands like Love Is Red and gathered insights from a wide spectrum of heads from the scene — all packaged in an incredibly cool Maximum Rocknroll-style collage hodgepodge. If you’ve ever been in a circle pit (by chance or by choice), this zine is for you.
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