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Montreal punk/hardcore festival Varning is returning for its seventh year from November 7-9 at MTL venue Katacombes. A bunch of NYC bands will be there, like Hank Wood & the Hammerheads, Nuclear Spring, La Misma and more, plus Sweden’s Institution, Portland’s Criminal Damage, San Francisco’s Ruleta Rusa (ex-Born/Dead and Peligro Social whose last show was Varning VI), Boston bands Bloodkrow Butcher and Koward, and many m…

Memory Tapes @ Williamsburg Waterfront, August 8th (more by Benjamin Lozovsky) Tanlines, who have a free-ish show happening at the Whitney Museum on Friday with DJ/Rupture, will open for Memory Tapes at an Absolut-sponsored, free-with-RSVP (BonusTrack3@TheLMagazine…

“I took an Ecstaic Peace advert out in an early issue of Forced Exposure fanzine and made up a bunch names of forthcoming releases – one ’em being Mirror/Dash…

DOWNLOAD: Aaron Dessner – We Were Born (from the Long Count) (MP3) The Long Count Oct 28, 30 & 31 at 8pm Bryce Dessner, Aaron Dessner, and Matthew Ritchie In an inspired collision of creative worlds, three inexhaustibly original artists–brothers Bryce Dessner and Aaron Dessner of indie rock royalty The National and omnivorous visual art phenomenon Matthew Ritchie–combine talents to create a song-filled myth about the beginning of time…