For decades, Columbia has been a hub for counterculture, including punk and metal bands. And with a vibrant underground hardcore scene, comes moshing. Moshing, according to the Oxford English ...

How did the mosh pit evolve? There's a surprisingly colourful history to the practice of banging into fellow concertgoers at high speed.

Okay, let’s admit it: We’re all a fan of a good mosh pit. Nothing compares to throwing yourself into a massive pit of bodies at your favorite show. The chaos of the pit may be in for a change though, ...

In her Sept. 14 piece “Views from The Edge of the Mosh Pit: Making Peace with Periphery,” Sun columnist Jael Goldfine ’17 approached the topic of moshing from the perspective of an observer, and ended ...

Moshing is an art form. Like the heavy metal music it was intended to accompany, it’s a brutal, punishing art form, one built on the deliberate collision of bodies and the sweat, blood and bruises of ...

Rico Nasty's live shows have become a space for women to not only mosh together but create new friendships too. Twenty-one-year-old rapper Rico Nasty is reclaiming and redefining the word nasty. Rico, ...

It's a good time to love a mosh pit, if Austin City Limits Music Fest 2019 is any indication. And they're not just in places where you'd expect to find them. To the uninitiated, mosh pits can seem ...

When you go to a metal show, you're in one of two groups. Either you're in the back by the bar just hanging out and watching the show, or you're in the fray of things going nuts. So why would you want ...

I’ve seen signs at metal shows telling concert goers that moshing isn’t permitted before; it’s always at some ultra-corporate venue that probably wasn’t ideal for a metal show in the first place (e.g.

If you’ve ever felt the need to write a thirst tweet similar to “Shawn Mendes can stomp on my body,” just know that it’s not as fun as it sounds — as much as we’d all like to get lost in his Japan.

At a heavy metal concert five years ago, physicist Jesse Silverberg had a "eureka" moment: The jumping, raucous fans at the show seemed to be... Mosh Pit Math: Physicists Analyze Rowdy Crowd Physics ...