Nardcore

Nardcore
Stylistic origins	Hardcore punk
Cultural origins	Early 1980s, Southern California
Typical instruments	Vocals electric guitar bass guitar drum kit

Nardcore is a hardcore punk movement that began in Southern California in the early 1980s, originating in Silver Strand Beach and Port Hueneme. Early bands in the nardcore scene included Agression, Dr. Know, False Confession, Ill Repute, Habeas Corpus, RKL and Scared Straight. The first venues to regularly host punk shows in the Oxnard area were Casa Tropical (a Quonset hut at the Oxnard Airport), Town and Country (Port Hueneme), Skate Palace (Port Hueneme), and Casa de la Raza (Santa Barbara).

Much of the early promotion of nardcore came from Mystic Records, in Hollywood, California, and its founder Doug Moody, and promotion director, Mark Wilkins. Mystic not only launched many bands onto vinyl, but also promoted the nardcore scene as a whole.

The name is a reference to the Oxnard, California hardcore punk scene, combining the words "Oxnard" and "hardcore". This suburban community, sixty miles north of Los Angeles, California, was the spawning ground for many hardcore punk bands of the early 1980s and became a hotbed for punk and skate bands; collectively, their sound became known as "Nardcore." Nardcore was popularized by Mystic records, Doug Moody and Mystic Promotion Director Mystic Mark Wilkins over a series of Vinyl Releases in the early 1980s. Nardcore tends to have a lot of the same characteristics as skate punk, but has a sound closer to traditional hardcore punk than skate punk.

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