Tom Gabel

Ahead of the new Against Me! album, singer Laura Jane Grace (formerly Tom Gabel) headed out on a solo tour that wraps up in NYC tonight (8/16) at Bowery Ballroom (tickets)…

Following in the footsteps of Life of Agony’s Keith Caputo (who now goes by Mina), Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel is coming out as transgender…

At some point the Chuck Ragan-led Revival Tour added a 2nd NYC show, which still has tickets available, happening after the sold out first one tonight (3/30)…

Chuck Ragan (of Hot Water Music) is taking The Revival Tour 2012 across the US and Canada this March and April. Like past Revival Tours, the shows feature a number of singers (usually of the punk scene) and their acoustic instruments collaborating on stage in a traditional folk music fashion…

Hot Water Music, who have been reunited since 2008, are currently working on their first album since the reunion and since 2004’s The New What Next, and that album should be out this May via Rise Records…

(though not even close to metal) Last month, indie rock blog Productshop NYC shuttered it’s doors (RIP) to make way for Stories In High Fidelity, a place “for bands, record stores, labels and writers to share their stories, tour diaries, memories and so much more”, a sort of “Huffington Post of music”, if you will…