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

Tonight's NYC shows include Priests, American Football, Nellie McKay, a punk Planned Parenthood benefit, and more.

Austin post-punks Institute, who put out their debut LP last year, have released details of the Northside show that we mentioned they'd be playing. They'll be at Palisades on June 9, and they'll be joined by Sacred Bones labelmates Cheena (whose lineup includes Pharmakon and members of other cool local punk bands), along with Nandas Haram...

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...

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...

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... The Bouncing Souls, Tim Barry, Let It Burn, Tommy Brunett @ Stone Pony NJ punk heroes The Bouncing Souls continue their annual Home for the Holidays shows tonight at Asbury Park's Stone P...

NYC garage punks Hank Wood & the Hammerheads have a couple festival appearances coming up in September, Hopscotch and Gonerfest. Before that though, they'll get in a hometown show on September 11 at Saint...

Total Control's tour starts this weekend, and they'll be in NYC at the end of the week to play Music Hall of Williamsburg on Saturday (8/1) with Lust For Youth, Sannhet, and Flesh World...

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... Quilt, Monograms, King Cyst @ Brooklyn Night Bazaar With last year's Held in Splendor, Boston quartet Quilt trancended the paisley folk of their debut into a more complex, more appealing band whose influences were a little harder to pin down...