By Tay Hansen, founder of Soundboard, a music media collective and creative studio.Featured image by Brock Marlborough. Scowl is one of the most exciting hardcore bands right now—and one of the most divisive. Fronted by Kat Moss, they’ve become a flashpoint for conversations around genre, gatekeeping, and the evolving face of punk and hardcore. Their just-dropped album Are We All Angels (via Dead Oceans) is bold, emotional, melodic, and, for some, controversial. But for many of us, it’s precisely the kind of shake-up this scene needs. As someone who’s been part of the punk and hardcore scene since I was 13, I’ve seen firsthand how closed off it can feel—especially to girls. When I was growing up, the scene around me was overwhelmingly masculine. There was only one punk girl at my school, a...