John Battles said:
"The Hozac fest (Formerly called the Horizontal Action Fest) is still a huge blowout every year. I wanted to see Deadmoon at one of those fests , but they sell out by lunchtime....I did see Roky , last year , when he played the Hozac Fest. I also saw The Mentally Ill at the pre - party , but that's all I cared about , and that's me . To their credit , the Hozac fest and related gigs have diversified considerably in recent years."
I'm glad to know it's still going on. I feel like all forms of music (specifically punk as we knew it, in this case) has diversified because no one stays true to form, as I would imagine the natural evolution of any music genre ends up or comes about. Half the time, people don't even know where it all came from in the first place, so they mix up styles seeing the former state as stale, and want to revamp it in a new way (ex. powerviolence....less musical to my ears, but coming from the same place w/the same concept). I can appreciate that.