I Don’t Want to Say Goodbye – Will Hardcore Become The New Grunge?
I Don’t Want to Say Goodbye – Will Hardcore Become The New Grunge?

I came here to brag on the new Haywire release, I Don’t Want to Say Goodbye, and got completely sidetracked… And I know why. As I write this, the timing feels appropriate. Turnstile just took the Saturday Night Live stage, bringing their particular brand of shoegazey hardcore into the mainstream. I remember watching something similar happen in real time with Nirvana and Green Day—watching an obscure, unknown, non-household-riffraff genre suddenly get shoved into the living

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Hello, folks!
My name is Justin Driscoll — musician, photographer, and most importantly, Dad.

I’ve been snapping photos and playing guitar since I was in single digits – and I’ve been lucky enough to take that passion from North Carolina all the way to Japan (and everywhere in between) with a Les Paul in my hands. Most recently riffin’ hardcore tunes with my band YamalokaĀ Ā 

These days you’ll still find me digging through record bins for hardcore and punk gems, wrenching on Harleys or Jeeps, taking long nature walks with my daughters, and chasing that Forrest Gump-level enthusiasm for running almost every day.

Running and playing live shows are where I find my peace. I’m a self-admitted gearhead with way too much nerdy music knowledge. This site is a journal of the work I’ve been lucky to create alongside amazing friends and colleagues.Ā 

PenĆ©lope Paul – a ‘Classic Custom’

This would be PenĆ©lope Paul—the guitar, not the cat. I stumbled across this somewhat overlooked and relatively limited-run model a few months ago. Built around 2012, this isn’t a Gibson Custom Shop instrument, but rather

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