The line between compassion and confrontation is sometimes almost imperceptible. Emma Boster feels like living proof of this. Plug the 10 letters of the indomitable Dying Wish vocalist’s name into Google and you’ll find plenty of coverage about one of hardcore’s most brutally brilliant bands (of course), but also more than a decade’s worth of righteous activism and wholehearted community outreach. “We come from a hardcore background,” she grins early in our conversation this morning, alluding to the uncompromising mindset that saw her picked up by Portland police for resisting arrest during the Black Lives Matter protests in July 2020. “Ethically speaking, punk and hardcore have always been more involved in politics and community. We just approach things in a dif...