The decade's best punk, emo, hardcore, post-hardcore, screamo, and more, from Foxing to White Lung to Touché Amoré to Joyce Manor to Julien Baker to Camp Cope, and beyond...
Sacred Bones 10th Anniversary show for Red Bull Music Academy featured performances from Zola Jesus, Blanck Mass, Jenny Hval, The Men, Moon Duo with Jim Jarmusch, Psychic Ills, Marissa Nadler, Uniform, and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Edley O'Dowd. The label is putting on another 10th anniversary showcase as part of Northside Fest.
Cris talks about Phoenix punk OGs Exterminators' first-ever LP (that he produced and plays bass on) and upcoming first live show since the '70s, plus Meat Puppets stuff, Nirvana, Grateful Dead, The Feederz, Destruction Unit (who are named after an Exterminators song), and MUCH more.
Berserktown is an annual festival that goes down in LA that's more interested in booking challenging music than big names (like for example, Destruction Unit and Thee Oh Sees were headliners last year). It returns for its third year from August 12-14 at the Teragram Ballroom and includes Psychic TV performing their 1982 album Force The Hand Of Change in full with guests, Ana Curra performing a set of music from her short-lived goth band Paralisis Permanente (who existed from 1981-1983), veteran UK DJ Powell, repeat offenders Destruction Unit (billed as "Destruction Unit + Friends"), the first-ever US show from long-running Swedish noise rockers Brainbombs, Danish punks Gorilla Angreb (who initially broke up in 2007), Hank Wood + the Hammerheads...
Market Hotel's schedule keeps expanding, and the newest addition is Arizona's Destruction Unit on March 23. Tickets are on sale. It appears to be the band's only upcoming date at t...