Touché Amoré: “Hardcore deserves respect for the way it has helped people, and for the way that it continues to do”

Jeremy Bolm is back where he started. Aged 18, the Touché Amoré frontman took his first job out of high school at Burbank store Backside Records, choosing a musical education over college. Bitten by the vinyl bug after getting a split seven-inch by Far and Incubus for his 14th birthday, he’d go on to amass a personal collection of thousands of discs.  Twenty-three years down the line, he’s prising a pay cheque from from between the stacks once again, sandwiching shifts pricing second-hand records at Hollywood institution Amoeba Music between work on his own The First Ever Podcast, Secret Voice record label and clocking up the miles at the fore of one of post-hardcore’s greatest bands.  “Eight or nine years ago, my best friend Joey Cahill and I h...

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