Spinning the best of old school and new school hardcore and punk since May of 2001
The Anti-Emo Empire! is a weekly radio show that caters to old school and new school hardcore and punk rock. You can hear the show every Thursday night from 8-10 PM on WNHU 88.7 FM, West Haven, CT. The show does not claim to be the "authority" on old school hardcore, but that is what the show's main focus is on. I like to think of the show as a source to school the new kids on the bands that were around back in the day that they may not already be familiar with, as well as being a 'flashback' to the good ol' days for the old school listeners. The show has also been very helpful in schooling myself on what is fresh and new in today's underground hardcore/punk scene. I try to give as much info as possible about the bands, old and new. Be it the band's history, if the band is new or older and broken up, if the release is out of print or still available, etc. 99% of the music played on the show is from my personal cd collection. The radio station has an okay music library for the newer punk and metal releases, but not much at all in terms of old and new hardcore. Many labels and bands supply me with promos and for that I am more than thankful. As a token of my appreciation, I have put links to them all in the links section.
I got into hardcore/punk back in 1985 crossing over from the underground metal scene. The school that I am from is hardcore/punk/crossover, there was a fine line between all of these styles and all three influenced one another and were all perfectly acceptable back then. Unlike today, where everything seems to be neatly packaged into a genre and catagory and bands are castrisized for experimenting outside of their pigeonholed accepted genre. I come from a scene and an era of hc/punk that was loud, abrasive, obnoxious, against the grain, sincere, and was pure, and that is exactly what you can expect from The Anti-Emo Empire! Radio show.
As far as I know, this is the only radio show in all of CT of it's nature and content. There are many "punk" shows on the radio, but there is nowhere else that you will hear the selection and combination of bands that I play.I do the show primarily out of my continued love for the music and as means to support the scene. All in all, it is a lot of fun and I will continue to do the show as long as it remains fun and it is being appreciated by the radio station and the listeners.
