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Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Two Mics, No Masters, Patrick and Andy dig into The Gatekeeper Paradox: can a scene survive without gatekeeping, or does gatekeeping eventually kill the thing it claims to protect? Hardcore, punk, and metal have always lived on a tension between openness and standards. Everyone wants the scene to grow, but nobody wants it watered down. Everyone hates elitism, but most people still have a line where something stops feeling real. So who gets to decide what be...

