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Tonight's NYC-area shows include Ween, American Nightmare, Blood Incantation, Earthgang/Mick Jenkins, Sanction/SeeYouSpaceCowboy, DAWN, Juliana Hatfield, Vader, Anna of the North, and more.

The first few West Coast dates are with The Locust, and the rest are with Aborted and WVRM with Tombs joining about halfway through too...

Listen to new songs from Redd Kross, Ezra Furman, Automatic, Squid, Fever Ray, Nervus, Sinead O Brien, Nightfell, The Menzingers, A$AP Ferg, and more.

Here's all the metal we posted on BV this week, including Pallbearer, Tomb Mold, Gatecreeper, Tau Cross, Death Before Dishonor, Here Lies Man, and more.

Tonight's NYC shows include Craig Finn/Laura Stevenson, The National/Courtney Barnett, Gang Gang Dance, Halo Maud, Nicole Yun (Eternal Summers), Nails, William Tyler, and more.

Listen to new songs by Kindness (ft. Jazmine Sullivan & Sampha), Joan Shelley, Street Sects, Hiss Golden Messenger, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Efterklang, Honey Harper, The Bird & The Bee, Juan Maclean, and more.

The inaugural New Colossus Festival, the CMJ-esque music festival and industry conference, happens this weekend (March 7-10) at East Village/LES venues Pianos, Arlene's Grocery, The Delancey, Berlin, Coney Island Baby, and Bowery Electric.

New Colossus happens March 7-10 at venues in the East Village and Lower East Side.

Lyrically, Chuck Stern says the album is about ”exile and abandonment... It is a story about certain people in my life moving on without me: the death of my father, a terrible breakup with a girlfriend, Obama's departure.”

Even if you have no interest in buying vinyl, there are lots of fun things to do and see in NYC for Record Store Day, including live bands, swag, free beer and more.