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BARDCORE EXPLOSION CONCERNS -The Australian, Tuesday March 22, 2011 Government officials and social researchers have admitted to being both troubled and baffled by the meteoric rise of an underground music subculture at a Youth Focus Week press conference today. Speaking on the unprecedented explosion of the 'bardcore' music genre, many were at a loss to explain the speed of the rise. Bardcore, described as a combination of hip-hop, bard poetry, eastern spirituality and psychedelic narcotics, has captured the Australian youth, who are are now trading in their gangster bling for Jacobean ruffs, hoodies for tunics, their designer trainers for tulip boots and their phat-pants for pantaloons. Claiming its roots in Melbourne, Bardcore is said to have originated when former Contrazt, TRS and High Society frontman Link McElvenny launched his Inkstain Pro project to live audiences in 2008. Due to his indefinable style and mastery of word play, he could not fit the traditional hip hop