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win tix to Hardcore Hell in NYC (with Marked Men, Iron Age, Kriegshog & more)

New NYC festival Hardcore Hell — from the people responsible for Not Dead Yet, New York’s Alright, and more — is coming to Saint Vitus, Brooklyn Bazaar, and Union Pool in August…

Marked Men, Career Suicide, Hank Wood, Kriegshog, more playing Hardcore Hell in NYC

The people behind the great Toronto hardcore fest Not Dead Yet have a new NYC festival happening this year called Hardcore Hell…

Sound & Fury 2019 lineup (Have Heart, Power Trip, Fury, Basement, more)

The 2019 Sound & Fury lineup also includes Fiddlehead, Incendiary, Despise You, Antagonize, and more.

Converge's Nate Newton's favorite albums of 2018

Converge bassist Nate Newton shared a huge, eclectic, genre-spanning list of his favorite albums of 2018, with punk, metal, hip-hop, and indie rock picks including War on Women, Daughters, Mazzy Star, Mitski, St. Vincent, Tomb Mold, Hot Snakes, Judas Priest, Cardi B, Deafheaven, Voivod, High On Fire, Boygenius, Author & Punisher, The Body, and more.

hear a Damaged City 2018 playlist & win tix to the fest!

The DC punk festival includes Turnstile, Limp Wrist, Radioactivity, The Flex, Warthog, Rixe, Wildhoney, Primal Rite, Red Death, and more.

Not Dead Yet 2016 initial lineup (GLOSS, Turnstile, etc) ++ Lock playing NYC

Possibly North America’s premier punk/hardcore festival and the closest heir apparent to Chaos in Tejas (RIP), Not Dead Yet, returns for the 2016 year on October 13-16. Again the Toronto fest comes hard, dropping a mixed bag of everything from the buzziest band in the hardcore world to the buzziest in the punk underground…

Violent Reaction releasing a new LP on Revelation, touring the US (dates & four song streams)

The UK’s Violent Reaction recall old school straight edge hardcore and Oi!, and they’re set to deliver another dose of that on their sophomore LP, Marching…

Damaged City Fest and New England Metal & Hardcore Fest initial lineups

Testament on the Motorhead Motorboat in October (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) A couple of stacked east-coast hardcore/metal festivals have recently announced their lineups…