11.15.08 After wanting to make t-shirts for this website for a long time, I finally go to it and they arrived yesterday and look pretty badass if I do say so myself. They're available in sizes S-XXXL. Sorry new school emo kids, no bright flashy colors; just black ink on a dirt brown colored shirt. They're available in an extremely limited amount and I may or may not print more if they sell out. Go to the Distro page for ordering info. Thanks.

11.05.08 Tons of new Reviews added. Ceremony and Never Healed are heading East to destroy Europe at the end of the month. Check out the tour dates HERE and check out the tour poster below. Ceremony is also on tour right now with Blacklisted, Have Heart and Let Down. Check the official Ceremony page for more details.

11.03.08 A quick note that 10 new Flyers were added. New reviews coming on Wednesday. Tomorrow is election day. Get off your ass and vote.

10.02.08 People up in Redding have some good shows coming up this month in October. Check out the flyers below for info. A little further down the road on November 14 at 924 Gilman Street is TRASH TALK, NEVER HEALED, LANDMINE MARATHON (AZ), FOREIGN NATURE, VIOLATION and ALPHA & OMEGA. Price is 8 bones at 8pm. TERROR have a bunch of shows in Cali in the next two months. Check out their Myspace page for dates and locations. Have I ever mentioned that Pressvre kicks your ass?

09.26.08 Check out Among The Living from Santa Cruz who just posted their new 5 song demo on myspace.com. Good stuff on the melodic side of hardcore. I also just discovered Jaguars from Sacramento featuring ex-members of Hoods, Suffokate and AlisticA. Check them out too.

09.24.08 Back again with a few new Reviews of three non-california bands. I've got about 15 CDs to be reviewed that have been sent to me in the last 6 months. A lot of the CDs aren't from California bands and some aren't hardcore at all but I figure the bands or labels paid to make the albums and paid to send them to me so the least I can do is write a few sentences about each even if I think it sucks goat balls.

Random plea for charity: If anyone can hook me up with a copy of the latest edition of Photoshop on CD-R or DVD-R I would be extremely thankful. I'm stuck in the stone age with version 6.0 and I'm fresh out of an extra $600 laying around to buy the program.

09.21.08 So another month and a half has slipped by but I've returned for another update. I listen to a lot of different stlyes of music and hardcore these days doesn't take up a lot of my listening time but lately I've been listening to nearly the entire Spiderghost Pressgang catalog on vinyl. Sammy and crew definitely know how to pic winners and if you're not hip to the Ghost go to their myspace and get with it.

As for updates today, I added five new Flyers to the archive, including the two below for upcoming shows in October. If anyone knows a good message board or website to find flyers for SoCal shows drop me an e-mail.

That's it for now, just a quick update. I'll have another later this week with some reviews and hopefully more flyers for upcoming shows. Stay tuned.

My playlist for the week (9/21/08):

Crown of Thornz "Mentally Vexed"
Animosity / Drumcorps "Altered Beast"
Grace Alley / Skin Like Iron "Quake City"
Ramparts "White Boys Like The Blues"
Metallica "Death Magnetic" (totally bro)

08.11.08 Well, after a lengthy two month break I'm back. During this off time I've wrestled with the idea of shutting down calihardcore.com as interest in it is at an all time low and I can't seem to find the time these days to update the site like I should. At the end of the mental wrestling match however, the site has come up victorious and I will not be shutting it down. I can't seem to cope with killing this monster I've created and run for the last 10 years. There will be a few major changes here however. First, at the dissapointment of many of you, the Shows page will essentially be no more. I rarely go to shows these days and keeping up with all the information is time consuming. Despite this though, some shows will still be listed. Read on... Also going away will be reviews of non-California hardcore bands. No more metal, punk or anything hardcore that isn't from Cali. The last major change will be that most new information will listed here on the main index page. I will basically have new stuff laid out like a blog. I will post some shows that I think are crucial to attend, reviews, news bits and anything else I find relevant. The flyer archive will continue as normal. I can't say how often I'll be updating but I think it's safe to say it will at the least be monthly, if not more frequent, we'll see. I want to thank all of you who have consitantly visited the site and helped me keep it going over all these years. I truely appreciate it.