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Welcome to the Louisville Hardcore/Punk/Indie Rock History.

This History is a sub-section of Louisville Hardcore.com, which has show listings, some tribute pages to older bands, a flyer archive, and many other things. If you are coming to us from a search engine or a referral, and haven't seen the rest of the site, please check it out.

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The purpose of this History is to catalog the rich past, present, and future of the underground music scenes of Louisville, KY. In the future, we may branch out into other cities, starting with regional places such as Lexington, Evansville, Indianapolis, etc.. But, we'll save that for the future. Before you edit or add any information, please, please, remember to login above (or create an account first). Once you have done that, please head to the Help:Contents page to find out what our recomendations are as far as content and formatting. We ask this to help keep track of who edits what and hold everyone accountable for what they submit. If the admins notice entries with misleading information or slanderous material, we will institute a policy where you will be forced to login to edit or even view the history. Please contact us if you come across bad info.

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Louisville Bands

# | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Venues

118 W. Main 2914 Springdale Road 540 953 Another Place Artswatch Aslan's How Audobon Skate Park Bardstown Road Legion Hall Barretones The Beat Club (or 'The Beat') Bellarmine College 624 E. Breckinridge St. The Brewery The Brycc House The Brick House Bulldog Cafe Cafe Dog Cafe Gecko Cavalry Lutheran Church Cardinal Inn Carousel Club CD Graffiti's Charlie's Pizzeria The Cherokee City Lights Clifton Community Center Clifton Unitarian Church Crescent Hill Baptist Church The Crunch Zone Deer Park Church Do Drop Inn Douglass Community Center Fern Creek Community Center First Unitarian Church The Flashback The Grand Theater Ground Zero Headliners

Highland Baptist Church Incarnation Church Keswick Democratic Club The Lang House The Lava House Locust Headquarters Louisville Public Skatepark Lynnview Community Center The Machine The Mercury Paw Needlecrofts (barn) Old Louisville Coffee Pandamonium Player's Primizee's The Red Barn Riot Skatepark The Rudyard Kipling Shelbyville Road Legion Hall Shockers The Sleep Chamber The Sound Stik The Swiss Hall Sparks St. Xavier Gymnasium The Sugar Doe Cafe Sun Valley Tewligans Tomaso's Total Eclipse The Toy Tiger Twice Told Uncle Pleasant's Veggie Vault The Warehouse Woody's Tavern The Wormhole The Windmill The Zodiac Zena's

Record Labels

2 Steps Forward Ancient Order of Assassins Automatic Wreckords Auxiliary Better Days Records Closed Casket Concrete Records Debauchery Records Desperate Attempt Ghetto Defendant Happy Fun Time Records I Can't Believe It's A Record Company Initial Records ISVI Records King Fetus Records Landmark Recordings Louisville Lip Louisville Records

la revolution! Louisville Hardcore Records Nerd Rock Records Noble Recordings Noise Pollution Omnicron Records Plastic Parasite Recordings Riverock Records RKT 327 Self Destruct Sinbad Records Slamdek Shakin' Sheila Recordings Steadfast Records Swim Hard Records Three Little Girls Thrown Brick Toothless Records Tuck Records Whitehouse Records

Magazines/Fanzines

Many of these 'zines will be available archived in .pdf form in the near future. They will be marked with a (*).

13 Zine Animals That Live In Trees Bad Culture Ballbuster Bejeezus Born To Lose (*) Brat Magazine The Brick BURT Conqueror Worm (+) Cracked Out CRIME Dead In The Dirt Deadjournal The Defector Desvariar Fast Workers Die Young Fred Hardtimes

ISA #6

Highlands Lowlife Injection In Low Carb Leo Neckmonster Negative Outlook Outburst Positive Thoughts The Pucknation Telecommunihomogenization The White Diet Us Vs. Them Zine Yum-Yum

Shows

More flyers available in the LHxC Flyer Archive

• 540 Fest (Single Event - See Articles section)
• Bingham Park Fest (Single Event)
• Cafe Dog Incident (Single Event)
• The Earthquake Party (Single Event)
• The Flood Relief Show (1997) (Single Event)
• Five Fest (Single Event)
• Fuck The Curfew Rally (Two events)
• Halloween Shows (annual)
• Help Fest (Single Event)
• InFESTed (Annual)
• Insomniacathon (several sporadic annual events, first in 1993)
• Krazy Fest (Annual)
• Llamapalooza (Annual)
• Louisville Worst Band Contest (single event)
• Slamdek Blowout (single event)
• The Southend Show (Annual. AKA Noise Pollution's March Show)
• SR Fest (Single or Annual is yet to be seen)
• Toys For Tots Benefit (Annual)
• Zerofest (Annual)

Clubs/Crews/Organizations

327 aka RiG Crew Local 327 Anti Racist Action Courage Crew CPC DAC EPA FBC Food Not Bombs FSP Grotesque Burlesque Louisville Ladies Of Hardcore Louisville Police Department

LPSA Louisville Pick-up Soccer Organization LYV Maximum Kickball P Posse PYFU SEG Ska Mob Slamdek Field Hockey Rockers Southwest Deathsquad Young Communist League

Places of Interest/Hangouts

1069 Bardstown Road 1919 Bonnycastle Ave. AKA The Slamdek House Acme Ink Action House Bardstown Road Bardstown Road Kinko's Bird House Cahoots Cory's House Doo Wop Shop Hardcore Skateshop Home Skateshop Hurstborne Lane Kinko's K's Lexington Mag Bar	Pantheon The Parking Lot (the real one, not the message board) Rainbow Blossom Skate Station Southern Indiana The Compound The Reservoir The Rocket House The Tenny House The Wall Wild and Woolly Veggie Vault Verbivore

Misc

• 7th Street Practice spaces
• Acme Ink
• Down In The Gutter internet radio show
• DSL Recording Studio
• FearThe502
• Going On Strike distro
• Headbanging Kill Your Mama Music
• I Eat Poop
• Intransit Studios
• Louisville Music Index
• Louisville Music Line
• Louisville Showcase
• Maximum Louisville Radio
• Monkey Drive
• Planet Louisville
• Sell Out Louisville Style
• The Show Of Shows
• Society Of No

Articles About Louisville Punk History/ Punk News clippings

• A Brief History of Louisville Music As It Pertains to Freakwater
• And The bands Play On from Louisville Music News
• Origin Of The Louisville Hardcore Logo
• Duncan Barlow's resignation from Hardcore
• 540 Fest newspaper article 1
• 540 Fest Newspaper Article 2
• Courier Journal article about BTGOG reunion show
• Velocity Louisville Hardcore Article 2005

Lexicon

for the new kids...

Anarchism/Anarcho-Punk Boneheads Christcore Crust Punk Crooked Edge Comp Distro DIY Drug Rock Emo Hoodie Metalcore Maximum/Minimum

The Initial Dictionary

Skinhead Split Straight Edge Vegan Vegetarian Zine Youth Crew Sellout Vinyl Records