1.   It had merely been a coincidence, he insisted, that the night of the killings he had worn a sweatshirt with the name of a hardcore band.

2.   The only real charge comes from the soundtrack, which features some terrific songs by antiracist hardcore bands like Minor Threat, Social Unrest and the Wives.

3.   Whatever their differences, these hardcore bands, chiefly from New York, resist the metal and pop temptations of so-called post-hardcore bands and revel in common sense.

4.   When I was younger I was in hardcore bands that were about being hard, fast, and loud.