Exotica

Plus: The Rolling Stones, Dead & Company, The Format, Pearl Jam, Circles Around the Sun, Treefort additions, Ana Curra, Aoife O'Donovan, and more tour-related news.

New NYC festival Hardcore Hell -- from the people responsible for Not Dead Yet, New York's Alright, and more -- is coming to Saint Vitus, Brooklyn Bazaar, and Union Pool in August...

The people behind the great Toronto hardcore fest Not Dead Yet have a new NYC festival happening this year called Hardcore Hell...

Philly queercore icons Limp Wrist have scheduled two Brooklyn shows with Portland noise punks Lebenden Toten for this June...

Plus: Zeta, Flogging Molly's St. Patrick's Day show, 1919's first-ever US tour dates, and more tour-related news.

This week in the Indie Basement we've got the new solo album from The Clean's Hamish Kilgour; French artist (and former Melody's Echo Chamber bandmember) Halo Maud; a new '50s exotica compilation from The Numero Group; balaeric pop from Australia; and debauched party rock from Warmduscher (featuring members of Fat White Family and Childhood).

The DC punk festival includes Turnstile, Limp Wrist, Radioactivity, The Flex, Warthog, Rixe, Wildhoney, Primal Rite, Red Death, and more.

Annual DC punk festival Damaged City Fest returns in April.

"Limp Wrist brings you 11 new trax of complete punk faggotry, not for the weak at heart and never will be."

Exciting metal and hardcore shows happening in NYC are announced all the time. We try to cover as much as we can (and there's even more on Invisible Oranges) but some things still fall through the cracks. Here's a roundup of some upcoming heavy NYC shows that we haven't mentioned yet...