Azar Swan

“Strawmen” features vocals from Zohra of Azar Swan.

John Carpenter, Bob Dylan, Jessy Lanza, SISU, Kayo Dot, Inter Arma, The Acheron’s second-to-last show, and more NYC options for your Friday night.

Wax Idols have just announced fall tour dates starting just after the October 16 release of their third album, American Tragic. The NYC stop will be for a special Nothing Changes Halloween Party which happens at Saint Vitus on 10/31 with Azar Swan and tourmates Them Are Us Too…

Plenty of great metal, hardcore and other heavy shows in NYC are getting announced all the time. We don’t get a chance to write about all of them, so here’s a roundup of some recently-announced stuff coming up: Pennsylvania death metal band Rivers of Nihil will release their sophomore album, Monarchy, this week via Metal Blade (pre-order), and they’re in NYC TONIGHT (8/19) to celebrate at Sa…

UK musician William Bennett’s industrial/noise project Cut Hands is returning to the US for a few shows this month. One is the previously-discussed Warm Up at MoMA PS1 on August 15 with Untold, Ninos Du Brasil, Vessel and French Fries b2b Bambounou (tickets), and he also plays a night show in Broo…

Industrial rap group Dalek are back and played Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus last Friday (7/17) with cleanteeth, Azar Swan and FInal Boss. That’s a picture from the show above — did you…

Visual artist and designer Jenni Hensler, whose work has previously been showcased at the Guggenheim, MoMA and more, is working on a new piece exhibition which will include collaborations with a handful of great musicians…

You may remember that last year Karyn Crisis (singer of the now-defunct NYC metal oddballs Crisis) launched a Kickstarter to fund an album with her new band Gospel of the Witches which also includes her husband Davide Tiso (of Ephel Duath), Immolation frontman Ross Dolan, Tombs frontman Mike Hill, and Vaura drummer Charlie Schmid…

Late last year, Azar Swan released their second album, And Blow Us a Kiss, which adds some serious Kate Bush vibes to the duo’s electro-goth-tribal MO…

NYC experimental musician Charlie Looker (currently of Psalm Zero, formerly of Extra Life, Zs and others) is curating and performing at The Stone from January 13 to 18…