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Punk Island announces 2023 lineup & new NYC location

Punk Island moves to a new location with Mikey Erg, Choked Up, Cometa Negra, Chemical X, Final Girls, Prostitution, Rebelmatic, and much more…

Burial Waves (Pianos Become The Teeth, Black Clouds) announce debut EP, share new song

The DC band also have two upcoming hometown shows: one with Quicksand and one with Fucked Up.

Hopscotch Festival 2015 day 3 in pics: X, Godflesh, Dwight Yoakam, Prurient, Chelsea Wolfe, Waxahatchee & more

Right before Yoakam was one of my all-time favorite bands, X, the great Los Angeles punk quartet that has endured many travails over the last four decades…

Hopscotch 2015 lineup (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, X, TV on the Radio, Godflesh, Deerhunter, Battles, Pusha T & more)

Raleigh, NC’s annual Hopscotch Music Festival returns this year from September 10-12, and today the lineup was announced. It includes God…

United Nations announce dates w/ Black Clouds & Loud Boyz

Geoff Rickly’s screamo band United Nations have announced two homecoming shows for 2015, one in DC and the other in Brooklyn. Both are with two DC bands, post-rockers Black Clouds (who are Geoff’s label, Collect Records) and punks Loud Boyz…

Pianos Become the Teeth told us their top LPs of 2014, playing Long Island w/ Title Fight, Defeater, Superheaven, Give, more

Pianos Become the Teeth at Webster Studio in October (more by Mimi Hong) Title Fight already have an awesomely billed tour with La Dispute and The Hotelier coming up that hits NYC on 3/27 at Webster Hall (tickets), and they’ve since added another appearance happening in the NYC-area that same weekend…

No Devotion announce new EP, share a track; Ricky Eat Acid, Black Clouds & Creepoid opening their NYC debut

Geoff Rickly‘s band with ex-Lostprophets members No Devotion have announced that they’ll follow their debut single with a new EP called 10,000 Summers on October 27 via Geoff’s Collect Records…

Fairweather releasing a reunion album (stream "Last Words")

Among the bands keeping emo raw and real during the genre’s mainstream breakout of the early 2000s was DC/Virginia’s Fairweather, whose second and final album before breaking up, 2003’s Lusitania, was one of the better (and comparatively overlooked) albums of its kind…