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Mean Jeans sign to Fat Wreck Chords for new album, on tour, playing 2 NYC shows (one with Paul Collins Beat)

Fat Wreck Chords turned 25 this year and they’ve been on a roll with signing cool new bands lately. This month they put out the great new album from Night Birds (who were added to Negative Approach’s tour) and today they announced the signing of Portland garage punks M…

Minneapolis' jangly Real Numbers on tour, playing three NYC shows this weekend; Big Quiet releasing debut 7" (streams)

Minneapolis’ Real Numbers make mod-ish, tinny and relentlessly catchy indiepop that owes a whole lot to Television Personalities. 2014’s What Was & What Is collects tracks from various single releases and is a good representation of what these guys do so well. Yo…

Tim and Eric releasing 'Zone Theory' self-help book, touring; David Liebe Hart touring too (dates, videos)

Adult Swim weirdos Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are making the logical step into the self-help world with new book Zone Theory, that offers “7 Easy Steps to Achieve a Perfect Life…

members of Delicate Steve, Dirty Projectors & more covering X's 'Los Angeles' for 'Decline' premiere afterparty

As mentioned, Penelope Spheeris‘ essential, long-out-of-print Decline of Western Civilization documentary trilogy is finally getting a DVD/Blu-ray release on June 30…

Punk Island 2013 happening in Staten Island (initial lineup)

Make Music New York’s Punk Island is back for a sixth year! From 11am until 10pm on June 22nd, hear more than 90 bands from every corner of the punk scene performing for 11 hours on seven stages, all curated by ABC No Rio’s punk/hardcore collective…