In this episode of DCxPC Live Presents: Scene Support, Scott talks with Chris Wynne, founder of In Effect Hardcore, about nearly four decades of documenting and supporting underground hardcore.

Chris launched In Effect as a Queens fanzine in 1988, printing just 50 copies of its first issue. Over the next decade, it grew to 12 issues and a 10,000-copy final print run—all distributed DIY through shows, record stores, trades, mail orders, touring bands, and Chris’s own conversations with people he thought might connect with hardcore. In 2012, he revived In Effect as a website, where he and a rotating team of contributors continue covering bands, records, shows, and hardcore culture.

Chris and Scott discuss learning to publish by simply doing it, interviewing bands outside CBGB Sunday matinees, distributing zines as far as Belgium and Japan, preserving underground music history, balancing scene work with family and everyday life, and the challenge of helping great bands cut through an endless stream of new music. They also talk about Chris’s work with Outsider Magazine, New Noise, and the weekly Bring the Noise radio show, along with all-ages spaces, the changing boundaries between punk, hardcore, and metal, bands that deserve more attention, and some memorable Two-Man Advantage stories.

At its heart, this conversation is about what Scene Support celebrates: people doing the often-unseen work of building infrastructure, preserving history, and helping others discover something that might inspire them to create something of their own.

Executive Producer: Trev Allen w/Struggling Artist Record Club

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