Marshstepper

The Thermals, Body/Head, Thee Oh Sees, Helmet, Ghost, The Sonics, Seu Jorge, Tony Molina, Jagwar Ma and more NYC-area show options for this very stacked Saturday.

Yesterday (9/25), Marshstepper member, Destruction Unit member and Ascetic House co-owner J.S. Aurelius posted to Facebook with a number of screenshots from the Instagram of clothing company Rocawear (founded of course by Jay Z), which seem to indicate that Rocawear stole a design from Marshstepper for a new line of t-shirts and hoodies…

Several NYC shows going on sale today.

Berserktown is an annual festival that goes down in LA that’s more interested in booking challenging music than big names (like for example, Destruction Unit and Thee Oh Sees were headliners last year). It returns for its third year from August 12-14 at the Teragram Ballroom and includes Psychic TV performing their 1982 album Force The Hand Of Change in full with guests, Ana Curra performing a set of music from her short-lived goth band Paralisis Permanente (who existed from 1981-1983), veteran UK DJ Powell, repeat offenders Destruction Unit (billed as “Destruction Unit + Friends”), the first-ever US show from long-running Swedish noise rockers Brainbombs, Danish punks Gorilla Angreb (who initially broke up in 2007), Hank Wood + the Hammerheads…

photos by Maria Jose Govea / Red Bull; words by Bill Pearis Pharmakon / Prurient / Genesis P-Orridge / Marshstepper

Nothing Changes is the weekly late-night party that happens at small Lower East Side bar Home Sweet Home that tends to feature relatively obscure goth/noise/punk/etc artists, and sometimes hosts bigger bands while they tour through NYC like Iceage and Merchand…

The Red Bull Music Academy will once again take over NYC this year from May 1-30 with several very cool events and various venues. This year includes a night of all African electronic artists at Villain, a GHE20G0TH1K’s biggest ever party which will happen at BK Bazaar with a big lineup including New Orleans Bounce ‘sissy rapper’ Sissy Nobby‘s first-ever NYC appearance, the premiere of a new Kid Millions (of Oneida) piece with 20 musicians, a conversation with A$AP Rocky, a PC Music showcase with all their artists and SOPHIE at BRIC House, a conversation with George Clinton, the biggest-ever Nothing Changes party at Output with Merzbow and many others, a Tri Angle Records 5th anniversary party on Wall Street with most of the label’s roster, the return of Frankie Bones’ Storm Rave party, the debut of FKA twigs’ new live show with dancers and more, an Arthur Russell tribute with Dev Hynes, Cults, Phosphorescent (UPDATE: Phosphoresent was initially listed as part of this but is no longer on the lineup), Sam Amidon, Little Scr…

Pharmakon, who put out one of The Quietus‘ favorite albums of 2014, recently played a release show for that album, Bestial Burden, at Palisades on November 22 with Ligature…

Danish one-woman industrial noise project Puce Mary released her newest album, Persona, earlier this year via Posh Isolation. If you’re unfamiliar, you can get a taste from the bleak, distortion-covered and effect-laden track “Courses” below…

Tickets for the Cat Stevens/Yusuf show at Beacon Theatre go on Amazon presale today at 10 AM. Tickets for the Pianos Become The Teeth, Frameworks and Gates show at The Studio at Webster Hall go on sale today at 10 AM…