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Welcome to the Louisville Hardcore/Punk/Indie Rock History. The purpose of this History is to catalog the underground music scenes of Louisville, KY. Regional, smaller areas (insofar as the size of their punk/hc circles) such as Lexington, Evansville are more than welcome to add their information as well. We currently have 3,478 articles for you to expand on and contribute to as is. Thanks to vandals, spammers, and shady characters, the History is unfortunately not available for public editing at this time.

October 2022 Update:

For the first time in nearly a decade, the Louisville Hardcore History has been updated and is nearly ready for public editing. New anti-spam tools have been added and the software updated so hopefully this will be a long term open platform again. Some newer bands, releases, and events have already been added - make sure to check out the Recent Changes link to the left in the main nav.

Louisville Bands

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Venues

Club 1123 118 W. Main 2914 Springdale Road 540 953 Another Place Artswatch Aslan's How Audobon Skate Park Bardstown Road Legion Hall Bardstown Road Youth Awareness Center Barretones The Beat Club (or 'The Beat') Bellarmine College 624 E. Breckinridge St. Black Bear Lair The Brewery Bulldog Cafe Cafe Dog Cafe Gecko Cavalry Lutheran Church Cardinal Inn Carousel Club CD Graffiti's Charlie's Pizzeria The Cherokee Chestnut House City Lights Clifton Community Center Clifton Unitarian Church Crescent Hill Baptist Church The Crunch Zone Deer Park Church Derby City Espresso Do Drop Inn Douglass Community Center Fern Creek Community Center First Unitarian Church The Flashback The Grand Theater Ground Zero Haymarket Whiskey Bar Headliners Highland Baptist Church Incarnation Church Kentucky Theater Keswick Democratic Club The Lang House

Locust Headquarters Louisville Public Skatepark Lynnview Community Center The Machine The Mercury Paw Needlecrofts (barn) Nelligan Hall The Nunnery Old Louisville Coffee Pad Tight Pandamonium Player's Primizee's The Red Barn The Rev Riot Skatepark The Rudyard Kipling Shelbyville Road Legion Hall Shockers Skull Alley Skull Mountain The Sleep Chamber The Sound Stik Sparks St. John UCC St. Xavier Gymnasium The Sugar Doe Cafe Solidarity Sumshee's Family Room Sun Valley The Swiss Hall 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

New Deal records 2 Steps Forward Ancient Order of Assassins Automatic Wreckords Auxiliary Better Days Records Closed Casket Concrete Records Brightskull Records Debauchery Records Desperate Attempt Dunkenstein Records Ear X-Tacy Ghetto Defendant Happy Fun Time Records I Can't Believe It's A Record Company Initial Records ISVI Records Karate Body Records King Fetus Records Landmark Recordings Louisville Lip Louisville Records

la revolution! Louisville Hardcore Records Little Heart Records Nerd Rock Records Noble Recordings Noise Pollution Omnicron Records Plastic Parasite Recordings Porklung Records Riverock Records RKT 327 Self Destruct Sinbad Records Slamdek Shakin' Sheila Recordings Shrodinger Records 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 GoodMorningSalute Hardtimes

ISA #6

Highlands Lowlife Injection In Low Carb Leo Neckmonster Negative Outlook Outburst Positive Thoughts pucknation dot com Revival Ink Self-Destruct Zine 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)
• Crazy Feast
• Daydream Fest (annual)
• 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)
• Hull House Benefit (Single Event, 1980)
• InFESTed (Annual)
• Insomniacathon (RANT Festival) (several-days-long, sporadically annual events, first in 1993)
• Kentucky Eye and Ear Control free music festival (at least two events)
• Krazy Fest (Annual)
• Llamapalooza (Annual)
• Louisville Worst Band Contest (single event)
• No Comply 502
• Slamdek Blowout (single event)
• The Southend Show (Annual. AKA Noise Pollution's March Show)
• Squarnival
• 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 Stay Gold Crew Young Communist League

Misc

• 7th Street Practice spaces
• Acme Ink
• The Argument
• Beards
• 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
• First Saturday Show Series show series
• Last Saturday show series
• Louisville Music Index
• Louisville Music Line
• Louisville Showcase
• Maximum Louisville Radio
• Monkey Drive
• Planet Louisville
• Sell Out Louisville Style
• The Show Of Shows
• Simple Disc
• 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

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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