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Seattle trio Wimps on Kill Rock Stars, touring (watch the "Couches" video)

Seattle trio Wimps — whose lineup includes Rachel Ratner (Butts), Matt Nyce (Meth Teeth), and Dave Ramm (The Intelligence) — put out their latest album Suitcase this past November on Kill Rock Stars. The band now gave the video treatment to “Couches, a dose of fidgety post-punk with a serious emphasis on “punk”…

Irish emo-punks The Winter Passing on US tour w/ Teen Death, playing NYC on Friday (dates, LP stream, videos)

Ireland’s The Winter Passing are on tour now with their Richmond, VA-based 6131 labelmates Teen Death. They just hit The Fest over the weekend, and the tour lands in NYC on Friday (11/6) at Aviv with PWR BTTM, Mumblr …

Chomp (ex-Cloud Nothings) streaming new tape, playing CMJ

Former Cloud Nothings guitarist Joe Boyer’s band Chomp released a 7″ this past spring, and this week they’ll release a new tape called Bruise Control on Mirror Universe (pre-…

Guerilla Toss sign to DFA, releasing 'Flood Dosed' EP (stream it), playing lots of shows

Art punk weirdos Guerilla Toss have been at it for a few years, with releases on Infinity Cat, NNA Tapes and more, and now they made the jump to a bigger label: DFA R…

Fat Wreck Chords are putting out the first 'Fat Music' comp in 5 years (listen to Night Birds' track & see them for free in NYC)

As someone who grew up listening to a lot of ’90s punk, the Fat Wreck Chords Fat Music compilations were a godsend. (Along with Punk-O-Rama and Hopelessly Devoted to …

Exploding In Sound throwing 5-day celebration in Brooklyn and Boston (but first a Northside showcase)

Brooklyn/Boston indie rock label Exploding In Sound Records is throwing a five-day, six-show celebration this August in their two hometowns, dubbed the “Thank You For Being A Friend” Extended Week…

Perfect Pussy played two nights at Baby's (Mac DeMarco showed up), playing BK Bazaar (one day after Priests)

Perfect Pussy wrapped up their tour over the weekend in Brooklyn with a two-night stand at Baby’s All Right. The shows were presented by the band and singer Meredith Graves’ new label Honor Press, and featured Sick Feeling, Meat Wave and Mannequin Pussy on night 1 (4/3); and Honor Press signees So Stressed, plus Wreck & Reference and Laced on night 2 (4/4)…

Soda Bomb expand tour w/ Mumblr (dates & new song)

Long Island’s Soda Bomb already put out the video for “Brainbuster” from their upcoming Wanna Jam? LP (due 4/7 via Broken World), and we’ve now got the premiere of another track, “Grump…

Soda Bomb releasing an LP, playing shows w/ TWIABP, Title Fight, Heeney, Vulture Shit & more (dates, new video)

Long Island fuzz punks Soda Bomb have a new LP on the way titled Wanna Jam? due out April 7 via Derrick from TWIABP’s label Broken World Media…

new Greenpoint DIY venue Aviv opening: upcoming shows include Turnip King, Peter Stampfel, Sunflower Bean & more

Some of the folks behind now-closed Bushwick venue Emet (and who ran Showpaper for a while) have opened a new place in Greenpoint called Aviv…