NewsApril 20, 2015 11:10 AM ET8,878 views

Bridge Nine Records signs True Love

True Love Bridge Nine Records has officially signed Detroit, MI straight edge hardcore band True Love. Here's what the label had to say about the addition:
"We're thrilled to say we've added Detroit, Michigan, straight-edge hardcore act True Love to our roster. Likely to please any close follower of the label's output more than a decade ago, the band take diverse inspiration from classic late '80s youth crew and early 2000s hardcore. After forming in January 2013, the five-piece quickly issued their debut EP, A Floral Note, on Mayfly Records a few months later. This was followed up by last year's New Young Gods mini-album for ReacT! Records."
True Love will enter Bricktop Studios in Chicago, IL with Andy Nelson (Harm's Way, Discourse) in early July to begin recording their first proper full-length. For now, you can stream their aforementioned mini-album here.

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anonymous 4/20/2015 8:20:03 AM

As if straight edge hardcore isn't homo-erotic enough, this is literally the gayest picture I've ever seen. Congrats

anonymous 4/20/2015 8:35:31 AM

ALEC EATS POOP

anonymous 4/20/2015 8:40:07 AM

yeah gay

anonymous 4/20/2015 8:42:24 AM

true love for what..? other guys..? lol. lovin the ink though.

anonymous 4/20/2015 8:43:23 AM

Nothing is as "hardcore" as dudes hugging and looking gay.

anonymous 4/20/2015 8:44:17 AM

This band is the chicken definitely not the egg.

anonymous 4/20/2015 8:46:24 AM

American Nightmare/Give Up The Ghost rip off band on their label. Not a surprise.

anonymous 4/20/2015 8:51:06 AM

pffff... gay

anonymous 4/20/2015 9:04:55 AM

where is DERRICK he is cute!!

anonymous 4/20/2015 9:05:35 AM

There needs to be an emo/straight edge holocost starting with these gaygets \m/

anonymous 4/20/2015 9:07:04 AM

I find it amusing that hardcore "kids" proclaim that they never follow trends, but are the very same people that have all transitioned from shaved heads under flat bill hats and basketball shorts, to 50s hair cuts and boat shoes. Will this be released on cassette?

anonymous 4/20/2015 9:14:54 AM

2016 dom bringin back the monroe piercing and tall tees.

anonymous 4/20/2015 9:17:32 AM

911 was an inside job

anonymous 4/20/2015 9:18:45 AM

Went to high school with the guy on the lower right. It's insane how much pssy his uncle gets. Like porn star pssy. Doesn't mean he does though. He's gay lol

anonymous 4/20/2015 9:21:33 AM

this is sick

anonymous 4/20/2015 9:25:45 AM

Bridge Nine Records should sign the beets since they are true hardcore

anonymous 4/20/2015 9:25:52 AM

I fcking love eating cereal

anonymous 4/20/2015 9:29:36 AM

Lambgoat commenters being stupid as fck, what else is new though

anonymous 4/20/2015 9:31:07 AM

hey guy above me, i know something that IS new.. you sucking these guys dcks because ur a gay like them too i bet man haha try having a nice day now

anonymous 4/20/2015 9:36:18 AM

Me n my girlfriend fck to this band. Def not gay!

anonymous 4/20/2015 9:36:22 AM

Dalton McGraw blows the singer

anonymous 4/20/2015 9:36:33 AM

Catch the singer in the corner fellating himself, while his other little gay-boy bandmates fiddle with his bum.

anonymous 4/20/2015 9:37:09 AM

What ever happens to bands like black flag, misfits, dead Kennedys and the casualties? These Gaylords wouldn't know hardcore punk if Henry Rollins himself mushroom stamped them with ian mackaye's c-ck (have fun googling those names/bands and pretending you knew who they were for years, idiots)

anonymous 4/20/2015 9:37:21 AM

youth crew is dead ya bozos

anonymous 4/20/2015 9:44:36 AM

Smash Your Enemies is real Detroit Hardcore.

anonymous 4/20/2015 9:48:08 AM

the casualties fcking suck dude haha

anonymous 4/20/2015 9:48:31 AM

smash your enemies is beatdown trash

anonymous 4/20/2015 9:58:50 AM

Hurr durr, who is Henry Rollins??

anonymous 4/20/2015 10:12:52 AM

Smegma crew

anonymous 4/20/2015 10:37:53 AM

y isnt dalton in this band

anonymous 4/20/2015 10:51:16 AM

These guys are the worst kind of nerds

anonymous 4/20/2015 10:59:40 AM

great another courage crew band

anonymous 4/20/2015 11:52:00 AM

music? check. lyrics? check. sad boy aesthetic? check. yeah, you guys did it. you're american nightmare. great job.

anonymous 4/20/2015 11:53:02 AM

face reality-build and destroy. all other now a days "detroit" hardcore sucks balls.

anonymous 4/20/2015 11:54:23 AM

dude from refuge skateshop makes their merch up. good dude.

anonymous 4/20/2015 12:21:49 PM

Everyone in this message board is so fcking pathetic. Step off you god damn cowards.

anonymous 4/20/2015 12:31:55 PM

^ listen to the fangirl people, do the courageous thing and step off.

anonymous 4/20/2015 12:50:06 PM

I saw the Chinese guy moshing to backtrack in Tampa last summer. These guys are the real deal his mosh style wasn't some new-jack bs these guys have their roots in hxc good dudes

anonymous 4/20/2015 12:51:59 PM

pretty cool songs on their bandcamp page. btw hardcore was never about innovation, it was always about emotions and energy. to the haters: grow a beard and start smoking crack

anonymous 4/20/2015 1:41:23 PM

Band is bad and literally not good and Bridge 9 is obviously getting desperate. True Love is gay and sucks and are loser gay sad boys

anonymous 4/20/2015 1:47:49 PM

I hope they get gay bashed

anonymous 4/20/2015 2:24:09 PM

I definitely fcked that guy's uncle

anonymous 4/20/2015 2:26:11 PM

I don't think that guy is chinese, I'm pretty sure he's hawaiian

anonymous 4/20/2015 2:55:59 PM

I dont particularly go for youth crew, but I don't think this is really that bad! Could dig. Not mosh, but dig.

anonymous 4/20/2015 3:16:03 PM

Love these guys!! Their first record I thought was ok but the second was KILLER! Love the guest vox from Ethan of Mindset(??). Awesome 2000s vibe super aggressive can't wait for the LP! Definitely gotta catch these guys soon

anonymous 4/20/2015 3:19:55 PM

yes pimp

anonymous 4/20/2015 3:33:00 PM

I actually fcked all these gays in their gaygy asses before. Who's the real gay?

anonymous 4/20/2015 4:33:39 PM

so if i get a 50s hair cut, get stupid glasses, strum 2 cords and have bad skin i could get on bridge9? oh and be gay.

anonymous 4/20/2015 5:16:51 PM

gay gays playing gay music. fruitcakes \m/

anonymous 4/20/2015 6:23:35 PM

Damn Bridge Nine have the pickens gotten this slim?

anonymous 4/20/2015 6:48:34 PM

Stoked for them, great band. Lambgoat commenters can go back to their moms basement and listen to periphery or whatever you posers like.

anonymous 4/20/2015 6:49:20 PM

I think they're good

anonymous 4/20/2015 6:50:33 PM

I don't understand why everyone all of a sudden gives a shit what a band looks like? Buncha hataaaazzz up in this maw fckah

anonymous 4/20/2015 7:14:54 PM

^ multiple positive comments by the same person are stoked. But to answer your inquiry, perhaps it's because the hardcore base will knock on anything that doesn't follow their community standards of look and sound, but are the first to cry "why does it matter?!?!?!?" when anyone calls out their trendy status.

anonymous 4/20/2015 7:29:30 PM

True Love will enter Bebe Bluff Studios in Bluffington with Skeeter Valentine (The Beets, Judy Funnie's Hipster Brigade)

anonymous 4/20/2015 8:35:46 PM

Good band. Congrats to them.

anonymous 4/20/2015 8:47:18 PM

Should've signed freedom instead

anonymous 4/21/2015 6:49:35 AM

The singer of freedom is a fruitcake

anonymous 4/21/2015 6:51:50 AM

at least they didn't bring 1950's instruments along with those haircuts.

anonymous 4/21/2015 2:06:17 PM

One Life Crew is stoked at the direction hardcore is taking.

anonymous 4/21/2015 4:19:54 PM

Sounds like every corndog band around 2001 that was jocking AN/Carry on. Maybe they'll do something unique and wear Kappa jackets zipped to the top..oh wait.

anonymous 4/21/2015 8:01:45 PM

"the band take diverse inspiration from classic late '80s youth crew and early 2000s hardcore." Lol

anonymous 4/21/2015 11:49:30 PM

> One Life Crew is stoked at the direction hardcore is taking. pre or post lockjaw? and yes, there was actually hardcore even BEFORE OLC existed ... did ya know fruit?




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