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Plus: Born Without Bones / Taking Meds, Spoon, Loyle Carner, Little Dragon, New England Metal & Hardcore Fest, The Hives, Los Lobos, Devendra Banhart, Jonathan Richman, and more…

Thursday’s NYC-area shows include Thrice, billy woods & Kenny Segal, Silversun Pickups, 2nd Grade, Liturgy, and more.

Sunday’s NYC-area shows include Lil Wayne, Bono, The Black Dahlia Murder, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Duster, Tink, and more.

Jus’ list has some albums you may not have heard of, but his descriptions do a great job of selling them (especially if you’re into psychedelic rock).

Krallice dropped their second album of 2017 today, and both Monarch and Dark Castle have upcoming NYC shows with Krallice-related projects opening.

Plenty of great metal, hardcore, and other heavy NYC shows 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 of the recently-announced stuff coming up: ’70s proto-metal band Bang, who played their first-ever NYC show in 2014 and opened for Pentagram here later that year, will return to NYC again on May 10 at The Shop (234 Starr St in Bus…

The picture above is Riley Breckenridge’s fractured jaw after the Puig Destroyer — the baseball themed grindcore group — drummer took a pitch to the head…

Thisquietarmy Thisquietarmy have teamed with Year of No Light to produce a new LP out now via Destructure Records. The four-track 12″ features songs that fall in the nether between ambient, post rock and post-metal, with two fresh jams from each band and a pair of collaborative songs…

Two European titans of metal, Altar of Plagues and Year of No Light, have teamed up for a split LP due via Music Fear Satan / Radar Swarm Records…

Monarch at Union Pool (more by Greg Cristman) Intercontinental doom destroyers Monarch return to a four-piece configuration with Omens, the band’s latest rumbling LP due on Feb 28th via At a Loss…