Orphan

Ari Marcopoulos‘s photographs and videos capture the rhythm and feel of diverse youth-oriented subcultures from snowboarding to underground music…

DOWNLOAD: Dope Body – “Dillion Aero” (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Dope Body – “Copper” (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Orphan – “Bogman” (MP3) Local street-toughs Orphan will team up with Baltimore-an ragers Dope Body to melt away the snow and turn the Ramiken Crucible (221 East Broadway, basement entrance on Clinton Street) into a 1000 degree sweatbox…

Krallice at Union Pool, replete with stage invadersAlmost no music is more ripe for renovation than black metal, with its hyper mannerisms, its flamboyant obscurantism, its single-mood monotony…

Skeletonwitch at Scion Rock Fest (more by Steven Brown) Skeletonwitch must pretty much live in their van. Luckily that means that NYC has another SW date to look forward to, 11/14 at Union Pool with the incredamazing Black Anvil…

Dark Castle Lest we forget, doom legends Saint Vitus have scheduled THREE east coast dates kicking off Friday night at Europa when they team up with Saviours, Orphan and Bassoon…

Battlefields‘ Rusty, belching forth the unholiest of bellows To quote my Aunt from Pennsylvania, I was in “a pickle”. French Swans-y post-metallers Overmars were touring the US for the first time ever with another favorite of mine, the criminally underrated North Dakota (…

Merle Allin, Pinback’s Rob Crow, and Dino Sex (Sweet shirt Rob!) Pinback are hitting the road this fall. The San Diego band, whose last LP was 2007’s Autumn of The Seraphs on Touch N Go, will be premiering some material from their upcoming Temporary Residence Limited debut, not due until Spring 2010…

DOWNLOAD: Pontiak – “Honey” (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Orphan – “Bogmen” (MP3) Brooklyn’s Orphan will join forces with Pontiak TONIGHT (5/1) at Cake Shop with Heavy Hands and Degreaser…

In between sets a bunch of what looked like DudeBros wearing ringer tee’s that said Goblin Cock Crew came out and set up equipment. A few minutes later the band pops out of no where in the now famous druid cloaks…

DOWNLOAD: Obits – Pine On (MP3) As previously mentioned, tickets are on sale for a March 27th Obits show at the Bell House with Lycaon Pictus, The Browns, and Rope…