Hepcat "Push 'N Shove (25th Anniversary)" (RSD 2025) Super7 hardcore highlights include Black Flag's

hardcore highlights include Black Flag's "TV Party

and it's just as rabid as it's ever been

Here we see Gonzalez test out different ways of singing

and years of ideas gelled into the a picture-perfect second album - to be released this October - 17 years after the first

The album represented a turning point in the musical maturation of the band

Hepcat "Push 'N Shove (25th Anniversary)" (RSD 2025) Super7 hardcore highlights include Black Flag's25th Anniversary limited edition color reissue of Hepcat's most recent studio album, Push 'N Shove. Though Push 'n' Shove emerged from the Hepcat hepsters in the summer of 2000, it sounds like a long lost ska classic. They nail the old school sound with dead eye precision, but still, somehow, it never sounds derivative. The laid back, low key groove of "Daydreamin'" and "Gimme Little Sign" are a refreshing reminder of ska's original power in days of