Confines

The Saint Vitus Bar co-owner and booker reflects on 2020 and lists some of his favorite music of the year, including releases from HUM, Gulch, Ulcerate, Nothing, Deftones, Pallbearer, Jesu, Jessie Ware, Oranssi Pazuzu, Lido Pimienta, Chubby and the Gang, Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist and more.

plus Nile Rodgers, Florence Welch, Every Time I Die, Dean & Britta, Waxahatchee, Richard Thompson, Andrew Bird, Matt Berninger, Pussy Riot, Open Mike Eagle, and more livestreams you can watch this week since there are no live concerts to attend.

Plus: Mork, Madball, Lightning Bolt, Sleep, Claudio Simonetti's Goblin, Slayer, Earthless, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, and more metal tour announcements.

Here's all the metal we posted on BV this week, including Pallbearer, Tomb Mold, Gatecreeper, Tau Cross, Death Before Dishonor, Here Lies Man, and more.

Confines (David Castillo of Primitive Weapons, White Widows Pact, Saint Vitus Bar) turns Full of Hell's ”Angels Gather Here” into a gothy industrial banger.

Plus: Belle & Sebastian, The Bird and the Bee, Jay Som, Injury Reserve, Matt & Kim, Temples, and more NYC-area shows on sale.

Listen to new songs by Amyl & the Sniffers, The Raconteurs (Donovan cover), The Gotobeds, Pottery, Wild Side, Kaytranada, Supa Bwe/Chance the Rapper, Lizzo ("Shallow" cover), Charly Bliss, and more.

Forgetters at Red 7 in Austin (more here)

Few hardcore and punk shows to put on your radar....

Forgetters will team with Oi band Hard Skin and Boston hardcore The Rival Mob for a killer three-way at Europa on Oct 22nd...