Gallantly Streaming: Sloan Revisits HFXNSHC On New Hardcore 7"

Everyone knows Sloan for their twenty-plus years of cranking out groovy, sometimes sugary doses of nostalgic pop/rock. However, they're well documented lovers of early 80's hardcore as well. Their 2006 album Never Hear The End Of It had the peppy, 72 second HFXNSHC (or, Halifax Nova Scotia Hardcore) hidden at the 24-spot of the sprawling album's 30 tracks. It sped by practically unnoticed on the album, but it now proves to be a formidable harbinger.

On Tuesday, Sloan is putting 500 hand-numbered copies of a new, limited edition hardcore 7" up for sale at their official site. The record, comprised of two Sloan originals, can be streamed in its (four minutes and change) entirety below. If you like what you hear, you'd best be at the site at noon (Eastern Time) on Tuesday to claim yours. At a glance, $25 for a 7" seems kind of steep (although maybe not if you've seen what some of this year's Record Store Day exclusives are going for).

As it turns out, what you get for your $25 is a pretty good bargain; not only do you get a rare, likely to be highly sought after single, you also get an exclusive T-shirt. But perhaps the most intriguing part of the bundle is the 12-song digital album you get with it, which features Sloan doing covers of hardcore classics by the likes of Minor Threat, The Descendents, Black Flag and Bad Religion. All in all, pretty exciting stuff.