Ghostlimb

The Fest also added Lemuria, Mean Jeans, Somos, Vacation, Iron Chic, Slingshot Dakota, PUP, RVIVR, Timeshares, Frameworks, Lifted Bells, Antarctigo Vespucci, Ian Graham, Katie Ellen, Roger Harvey, Museum Mouth, Hiccup, Amanda X, Die Choking, Sonic Avenues, Mac Sabbath, Creepoid, Sports and mannnnnny more.

It includes Planes Mistaken For Stars, Propagandhi, Small Brown Bike, Samiam, Dead To Me, Strike Anywhere, Knapsack, Tim Barry, Braid, Latterman (who are reunited again), The Menzingers, AJJ, War On Women, Underground Railroad to Candyland, Toys That Kill, United Nations, Iron Reagan, Jeff Rosenstock, Night Birds, and many more.

As always, there's a ton of metal and hardcore stuff happening in the NYC area. Here's a roundup of some of the latest. As we get ready for the annual giant Decibel tour that this year features Abbath, High On Fire, Tribulation and Skeletonwitch, we recently found out that, following the sad departure of longtime Skeletonwitch frontman Chance Garnette, the new vocalist on this tour and beyond will be Adam Clemans of the great Wolvhammer...

Ghostlimb, one of the many projects of Justin Smith (Dangers, Graf Orlock, Vitriol Records, etc), are releasing the followup to 2012's Confluence in 2...

California hardcore band Dangers (whose lineup includes Justin Smith, also of Ghostlimb) haven't released an album since 2010's Messy, Isn't It, but that just changed this week with a new EP, Five O'Clock Shadows at the Edge of the Western World, which came out via Justin's Vitriol label and Jeremy Bolm's (of Touche Amore) Secret Voice label...

The term "90s revival" gets tossed around a lot, but one band that sounds like they were ripped straight from the decade are Bay Area rockers High Water...

United Nations at Union Pool, Feb 2010 (more by Paul Birman) United Nations, the shrouded supercrew containing vocalist Geoff Rickly at the helm, are playing shows in middle January, including one at Saint Vitus on January 18 with support from Brooklyn crews Primitive Weapons, Descender, and Black Clouds...

My best guess is that you'd probably call Bay Area band Comadre's sound an offshoot of screamo, but that dirty word is far from fitting for a band this adventurous...

Black Breath at Precious Metal, May 2009 (more by Paul Birman) I can't tell you how many great bands I have seen over the years at Precious Metal at NYC club Lit Lounge on Mondays...

Ghostlimb features Justin Smith, the deviated mind that brought you the "cinematic grind" favorites like the Destination Time trilogy, Los Angeles and the engineering achievement that is Graf Orlock's Doombox EP...