Dan Melchior

Tonight's NYC-area shows include Youth of Today, The Flesh Eaters, The Interrupters, Kevin Devine, Thursday, Ted Leo fronting a Dexy's Midnight Runners cover band, and more.

Prolific musician Dan Melchoir has teamed with Austin's acerbic art-punks Spray Paint for a new project they call Contributors. The result is somewhere in between both of their inclinations: dark post-punk that has room for stretching out (and rocking out)...

A bit of unfortunate timing for the iconic Manchester band -- the album includes a song called "Victoria Train Station Massacre," which has unintended connotations with last week's Manchester Arena suicide bomber tragedy.

Gonerfest bands past and present make up this week's edition of our SiriusXMU Blog Radio show.

Whitney Johnson of Verma has a new album coming out via her Matchess solo project. The Rafter will be out June 3 via Monofonus Press, which once again displays her skills at making eerie, often unnerving, music. We've got the premiere of "The Fog" off the album, a haunting instrumental that weaves synths, strings, choral voices to splendid, haunting effect...

Austin's tightly-wound, astringent punks Spray Paint will release their new album Feel the Clamps on June 3 via Goner...

Speaking of Kid Millions, one of his other projects, the long-gestating NYC supergroup Soldiers of Fortune, release their new album Early Risers this Friday (11/6)...

Soldiers of Fortune, the NYC indie rock supergroup featuring Brad Truax (Home, Interpol), Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Superwolf) and Kid Millions (Oneida, etc etc etc), have been sporadically active for over a decade...

Versus are currently in the studio working on their next album though no word on when that is going to come out. You can however catch them live on November 9 at Rough Trade where they'll play with the Thalia Zedek Band, Antietam, Rogers Sisters, and Cynthia Nelson...

The WFMU Record Fair is this weekend (May 30 - June 1) at the 69th Regiment Armory in Manhattan (25th & Lex). They've released their live performance schedule that includes sets (who used to have a show on WFMU), UK band The Flatmates (in for Popfest), a high-concept Pere Ubu cover band, and more...