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The Month In Hardcore: August 2020

11:56 AM EDT on August 17, 2020

Gulch
Gabe Becerra

It's poetry. The band whose shirt you can't buy is also the band whose members don't wear shirts. Onstage, the Santa Cruz band Gulch present a united front: Four or five young dudes, stringy and tatted-up, all wearing tight black jeans and no shirts. Hardcore is supposed to be a gimmick-averse genre, and yet Gulch's look is a great non-gimmick gimmick. They don't look like they've had a band meeting about how they all should dress onstage. They look like guys who showed up at the venue wearing black jeans and no shirts. It just makes sense.