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Big Eyes releasing 'Stake My Claim,' touring (stream two tracks)

As you know if you’ve seen them live lately, Big Eyes have been incorporating more classic rock riffage into their sound, and that is definitely coming across in the songs we’ve heard from this album…

The Acheron said goodbye

“I guess all I would want to say is thank you. Thank you to the people who came to shows, even just once,” Acheron owner Bill Dozer says.

Three more Acheron shows to go (get your picture taken at the final one)

One show Friday (tonight), and back to back shows on Saturday. Check out the schedule.

Magrudergrind playing one of the final Acheron shows

NYC-via-Baltimore grind heavyweights Magrudergrind have announced a NYC show, and are another big name participating in the sad send-off of The Acheron…

Meltasia festival returning to the Catskills w/ Pentagram, Kool Keith, Shannon & the Clams, Sheer Mag, more

The lineup for Meltasia Festival has been announced, and its pretty loaded and varied. Going down at the old Game Farm in the Catskills, which is less than a 3-hour drive from NYC, on September 2-4…

Martial Canterel, Ninos Du Brasil, Flatliner, Tozcoz & more playing upcoming Nothing Changes shows

NYC’s recurring party of all things dark, weird and dirty, Nothing Changes marches on and as always there are some cool things coming up on the sched…

Olympia punks Vexx touring, playing 3 NYC shows, two with Pissed Jeans (dates & new EP stream)

Vexx hail from Olympia, WA’s thriving underground punk scene, the same scene that brought us bands like the now-defunct (and sadly missed) Hysterics, whose final hometown show Vexx ope…

UK anarcho-punk pioneers The Mob touring the US before Damaged City Fest (dates)

The Mob were an anarcho-punk band originally from Yeovil, Somerset, England during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The band broke up in December 1983…

hardcore/punk roundup: Boston Strangler, Glue, Hank Wood, Crime In Stereo, Backtrack, Madball, Sheer Terror & more

Boston Strangler at Acheron in 2012 (more by Sarja Hasan) As is generally the case, there’s a whole bunch of cool hardcore/punk shows in NYC in the coming months…

The Roots playing a "secret show" next week in NYC

The Roots, Louis XIV, Yellowcard, Fat Joe, Pete Yorn, and five other groups are involved in this corporate “secret show” thing. Ten groups will play FREE “secret shows” at undisclosed locations…