Oct 16, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min · 16 segments
Washington, DC hardcore legends **STRIKING DISTANCE** have announced their final shows on November 20th and 21st. Dave Byrd, the full-throated vocalist with an enthusiastic love for his adopted home…
Well, D.C. in the early 2000s.
Late 98.
All right.
Late 98.
Let's say for the sake of this question, late 90s, early 2000s.
Was that a good era for D.C. hardcore in hindsight?
But really, the two main bands like Battery and Damnation A.D. And they didn't really play that much.
Battery is basically a European band, right? Yeah.
I know they're not a lot.
Like every once in a while they would play, they played at the Annandale church and they would play some one-offs here and there.
And, you know, damnation would play here and there, but really there wasn't a lot of well-known less, you know, other bands, you know, like, Christmas addicts would play and they can maybe draw some people long shot.
So my thing was with this band, like we, we didn't really have like a, an agenda or anything, but one thing that I saw early on was that the, Like bands like Longshot and Christos Addicts and I'm forgetting other ones.
But there was a lot of these bands like there was just certain groups of people would just go to see those bands play.
Well, D.C. in the early 2000s.
Late 98.
All right.
Late 98.
Let's say for the sake of this question, late 90s, early 2000s.
Was that a good era for D.C. hardcore in hindsight?
But really, the two main bands like Battery and Damnation A.D. And they didn't really play that much.
Battery is basically a European band, right? Yeah.
I know they're not a lot.
Like every once in a while they would play, they played at the Annandale church and they would play some one-offs here and there.
And, you know, damnation would play here and there, but really there wasn't a lot of well-known less, you know, other bands, you know, like, Christmas addicts would play and they can maybe draw some people long shot.
So my thing was with this band, like we, we didn't really have like a, an agenda or anything, but one thing that I saw early on was that the, Like bands like Longshot and Christos Addicts and I'm forgetting other ones.
But there was a lot of these bands like there was just certain groups of people would just go to see those bands play.
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