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\n\tOnly a nor\u2019easter could have stopped Boston<\/a> hardcore band Haywire<\/a> from performing the dates leading up to the release of their new album, I Don\u2019t Wanna Say Goodbye<\/a><\/em>. They were booked to play a string of gigs late last month, including a high-profile slot at New York\u2019s CBGB Festival, until they were all wiped out by that East Coast storm.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt takes a miracle for us to cancel,\u201d says frontman Austin Sparkman. That\u2019s not hyperbole for Haywire, who have played more than 400 shows since forming in 2023. In fact, they played 96 gigs in 101 days across all 50 states in the summer of 2024. \u201cI just try to do everything to the extreme,\u201d Sparkman adds.<\/p>\n \n\tHe\u2019s been like that since he was a kid. He dealt with familial drug abuse before moving in with an adoptive family in the tiny village of Barnesville, Ohio, when he was a child. His new family provided for him, but he still brought his books to school in a grocery bag. Before he moved to Barnesville, Sparkman was into hip-hop, but his new brother taught him about heavy music. He went to his first show at age 13 and started playing music at 15. Eventually, he began booking shows in his adopted parents\u2019 basement, a.k.a. the Lakeview House, and driving hours to hardcore and emo gigs in neighboring cities.<\/p>\n \n