内容摘要：“Take in the lyrics,” Ortiz wrote to Lucas. “Ponder what you’re allowing yourself to be a part of.”

“Take in the lyrics,” Ortiz wrote to Lucas. “Ponder what you’re allowing yourself to be a part of.”

The World Alive, a band signed on Shapiro’s label, said he was among “the most influential and positive forces in our music scene and beyond. And Dan was one of the most influential and positive forces behind the kit.”Shortly after punk rock entered the cultural zeitgeist in the late 1970s, it inspired musical sub-movements fueled by its “do-it-yourself,” community-minded ethics: hardcore punk begat post-hardcore, metalcore, emo and so on. Across decades, these music genres evolved in sound and scope, moving from underground popularity at concerts held in garages and basements to real mainstream fame, while refusing to abandon its independent ethos.

Thomas Gutches, who manages Beartooth and Archetypes Collide, recalled a time when now-popular bands like The Devil Wears Prada were getting their start playing in “DIY shows” in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio, in which you could see 10 bands perform for $5.Authorities work the scene where a small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, setting several homes on fire and forcing evacuations along several blocks early Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)Authorities work the scene where a small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, setting several homes on fire and forcing evacuations along several blocks early Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Shapiro was “single-handedly developing this next wave of bands that are coming in,” Gutches said. “He was able to take those bands, package them together and put them on a larger scale. ... He took a risk in being like, ‘OK, I’m going to go and take them to that next level.’ ”These artists reached a kind of apex in the 2000s and 2010s. Once-obscure bands that had found audiences on early online social media platforms like Myspace, at the mall goth haven Hot Topic, or in the pages of left-of-center publications like Alternative Press became MTV staples, celebrities in their own right.

Although many of these acts played similar-yet-different music — think of the blast beats of metalcore and the palm-muted power chords of pop-punk associated with the

— they were brought together by a shared punk rock spirit. And for the last few decades, these tight-knit groups have proven to be the dominant force in alternative rock, according to Mike Shea, founder of “Alternative Press,” who used the word “community” to describe the scene.Ever since U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration began dismantling the

, which was responsible for humanitarian aid, most of the help centers for Nepal’s LGBTQ+ community have been closed due to lack of funds. Thousands of people have been left without support.It is an unprecedented setback to the Himalayan nation’s growing queer community, which has made significant progress in recent years.

“It is a big crisis,″ said Sunil Babu Pant, an openly gay former parliamentarian and a leading LGBTQ+ campaigner. “When the community needs counselling or support, it is absent. People are going back to the closet again.”In the past few years, Nepal’s LGBTQ+ community made rapid advancements in securing their rights. The nation became one of the first in Asia to