found: Work cat.: 96070567: Lahickey, B. All ages, c1997(hardcore)
found: All music guide WWW site, Jan. 22, 2003(Hardcore punk: The most rigid and extreme variation of punk rock; emerged in the early '80s; impossibly fast, the vocals were shouted, the riffs were simple, and the records looked (and sounded) like they were made in someone's basement; primarily American)
found: Grovemusic.com WWW site, Jan. 22, 2003(in text of articles on styles and groups: hardcore, hardcore punk)
found: Shuker, R. Key concepts in popular music(Hardcore: Part of the U.S. underground in the late 1970s; developed out of punk and was linked with grunge and alternative rock; originally harder and faster than its direct ancestor, punk rock, monochrome guitars, bass, and drums, half-shouted lyrics venting the most inflammatory sentiments; British hardcore and post-punk bands were noted for their melodically minimal, percussive structures)
found: Pickering, D. Cassell companion to 20th-century music(Hardcore: Alternative U.S. name for the punk rock movement of the late 1970s. In the 1980s the term was specially reserved for the most radical forms of post-punk rock)
found: White, D. Dict. pop. mus. styles world(under United States: Hard core: Loud minimalist punk rock music)
found: Encarta world Eng. dict. WWW site, Jan. 22, 2003(hard core, n. 2: type of fast rock music: a type of dance music notable for its repetitive rhythmic synthesized sounds and fast tempo)
found: Wicke, P. Handbuch der populären Musik(hardcore)