Bazooka, Beg to Differ (mic, guitar)

Years active: In the scene? Consistently since 2018 started going to shows in 2014

How did you first get into music, and which band became your first real obsession? I’ve been into music as long as I can remember used to sing along to the radio as a child but my dad gave me an iPod classic in 2007 and it had like linkin park and mad shit on it LP was my first favourite band.

How did you discover HC, what pulled you in, and which band served as your gateway? HC was always around me I was a huge video game head growing up but I didn’t know it was hc. In high school some kids pmo to terror and dtn and I went down the rabbit hole realised i had heard a lot of the classics before.

Biggest musical influence? Bad Brains

Describe your sound in 3 words. Unique, New York, Hard

Top LIHC / NYHC bands of all time? No order Breakdown, Outburst, Killing Time, Bad Brains, Cro Mags

Top 3 non-HC bands of all time? NBA YoungBoy

Current LIHC / NYHC bands worth checking out? If none, list from other places. Not NYHC but Who Remembers they’re doing HC the right way, s/o to the current newer NYHC bands No Values, 100 Hour War

“Feel like hardcore is in a weird place a lot of performative actions a lot of lines being blurred. What gravitated me to hardcore was not attention, not likes on social media or money from people who didn’t have, I started going because I finally felt like there was a place I could go be Marquis and let out all my negativity in this space. Frequently now when I get on social media and see how hardcore is being represented and treated I’m bummed. I think a lot of the newer people kids who started coming around after the pandemic should do some more homework really ask themselves why they’re here. I didn’t start coming to hardcore shows because the promoter booked “a great show” or because a photographer posted a viral pic. Shit is backwards listen to Warzone”

Photo by Ari