The Best of the Worst

The NJ ska/post-hardcore blenders are celebrating the reissue of their sophomore album with a home state show, and their old friends Paulson are reuniting for the first time in 12 years to open.

Saturday’s NYC-area shows include ESG, Hot Rod Circuit, PWRUP, and more.

Friday’s NYC-area show options include Tool, Life of Agony, Sheer Terror, Big D & The Kids Table, Plaid, and more.

Listen to new songs by Devendra Banhart, Cave In, Save Face, Open City, Frost Children, Crumb & Melody’s Echo Chamber, Doechii, Crime In Stereo, and more…

Thirsty Guys, the New Brunswick, NJ ska-punk band that shares members with The Best of the Worst, have just surprise-released a new album on Bad Time Records.

plus Death from Above 1979, yeule, Bad Time Records fifth anniversary shows, and more tour and show news.

A variety of punk/hardcore subgenres will come together at Brooklyn’s Friendship Quest Fest this year…

Two great modern ska-punk bands (who share members), Joystick and Flying Raccoon Suit, are heading out on a co-headlining tour together of the Midwest and Northeast this May…

Folly and The Best of the Worst are both bands that mix ska with heavy metallic post-hardcore. They’ve often been the odd band out, but now they found each other and released a new split, which features Folly’s first song in 14 years, and they join us on the BV podcast to talk about that and much more…

Folly, the incredibly unique 2000s-era NJ band that mixed ska with metallic post-hardcore, have released their first new song in 14 years!