Saint Vitus (bar)

Serious question: do defunct metal bands that have any remotely plausible claim to “legendary” status ever really die? The answer increasingly appears to be no, as long as at least one original member is still interested in playing live under the name…

Brooklyn metal club Saint Vitus Bar wasn’t originally intended to be a mostly show-oriented establishment; it only became one after its initial round of shows succeeded dramatically…

Missed them at one of their two large Manhattan shows earlier this year? Well, chances are you’ll miss them again because not many people will fit into Saint Vitus on October 11th for the Invisible Oranges-presented JUDGE show happening there as part of the CBGB Festival on that night in the intimate Brooklyn venue with Manipulate and more TBA…

Vision of Disorder (more by Kurt Christensen) In other crowdfunding-related news, a pair of Long Island hardcore fans named Nick and Chris Lilli are raising money for a documentary on the region’s legendary DIY hardcore tradition, titled Something in the Water: A Film About the Long Island Hardcore Music Scene…

H.R. of Bad Brains @ DeLuna Fest 2012 (more by Dana Yavin) today in NYC * Slavic Soul Party @ Barbes * Gary Clark Jr. @ Brooklyn Bowl * Brilliant Coroners @ The Stone * Pre-War, Grad Rapids @ Cake Shop * The Darcys @ The Mercury Lounge * Pretty Lights, Eliot Lipp @ Starland Ballroom * Chick Corea & Stanley Clarke Band @ Blue Note * Benjamin Walker’s Find the Funny @ Joe’s Pub * Johnny Foreigner, Motive, Rumors @ Glasslands * Dirty Names, Eyes Lips Eyes, Chasing Kings @ Pianos * Six Feet Under, Cattle Decapitation, Wretched @ Webster Hall * Jared Swiley (Black Lips), Alix Brown DJ sets @ SoHo Grand * Motion City Soundtrack, Jukebox the Ghost, Now, Now @ Irving Plaza * Organs, Twin Guns, Nat Brower & The Power, Juniper Rising @ Death By Audio * Josh Madden, Deemehlow, DJ Huggy Bear, Old Money @ Santos * Eugenics Council, M AX NOI MACH, Corephallism, Brown Recluse, The Epaulettes @ 285 Kent * Reptiles, Dirty Fences, Mutant Genes, ZZZs”>Reptiles, Dirty Fences, Mutant Genes, Zzzs @ Union Pool * H.R., Kyp Ma…

words and pictures Doom bands Witch Mountain and Castle played Saint Vitus Bar during their US tour on Friday night (11/2). With support from local act Kings Destroy, the show was the first ticketed event at Vitus in the wake of Frankenstorm Sandy…

“In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, which left a trail of deadly destruction, devastating power failures and extensive flooding, millions of people in the New York metropolitan region spent Tuesday assessing the damage and preparing for the possibility that it could be days or even weeks before life returned to normal…

Lets face it, we’re barely into CMJ 2012 and already in overload. So, we’ve decided to add a healthy alternative to the glut of Friday night showcases…

Yakuza at Gramercy, October 2010 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG) I am proud to announce the official BV-BBG CMJ showcase, going down in Brooklyn at Saint Vitus on October 20th…

Saint Vitus at Maryland Deathfest (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG) That one-off with Down at Best Buy Theater always looked so lonely, so Saint Vitus have scheduled a tour around that appearance that includes another stop in NYC…