Left and Right

Tonight's NYC shows include Roots Picnic, The Meadows, Blood Orange, Buzzcocks, Elvis Costello, Opeth, and more.

Gainesville's annual punk festival The Fest returns in 2015 for its 14th year (hence Fest 14) from October 30 to November 1, and like in previous years, a handful of the bands play Pre-Fest in Little Ybor from October 28...

Garage punk ragers Diarrhea Planet are on a tour with Left & Right that comes to NYC this Saturday (4/4) for a sold-out Bowery Ballroom show, also with Slonk Donkerson on the bill...

Radical Dads are back with their third album, Universal Coolers, which will be out February 24 via Old Flame. The trio make no bones about their love of '90s indie rock so it's extremely fitting that the cover art for the new album was done by prolific Greenpoint artist Steve Keene, who did the same for Pavement's Wowee Zowee and Apples in Stereo's Fun Trick Noisemaker and others...

The way they tell it, Philly's Left & Right are just "four regular ass dudes trying to live their fucking lives man." They also happen to make pretty good poppy punk, as you can hear on new single "Age of Independence" off their upcoming album, Five Year Plan, which comes out on September 9 on Infinity Cat's Cassette Ser...

Tickets for the RL Grime show at Terminal 5 go on Fan Club/VIP Package and AmEx presale today at 10 AM and noon, respectively. (Anyone know the password...

Punk veterans Ten Foot Pole, who formed as the hardcore band Scared Straight in the early '80s but changed their name before 1993's more melodic punk-styled Swill, have announced that they'll release their first new album since 2004's Subliminable Messages in 2015 via Cyber Tracks (El Hehe of NOFX's label)...