Public Serpents

What's Going on Thursday?

Thursday’s NYC-area shows include The Flaming Lips, Algernon Cadwallader, Mary J. Blige, Deadguy, Robert Glasper, and more.

What's Going on Wednesday?

Wednesday’s NYC-area shows include Moses Sumney, Car Seat Headrest, Maxwell, GZA, Thao, and more.

Dissidente interview: ska-core band talks Anti-Flag comparisons, protest music & more + new song

”The importance of protest music is to combat that burnout and reinvigorate people to have the energy to actually take to the streets,” says Chris Ruckus of Dissidente in our new interview about the band’s long-awaited debut album…

What's going on Sunday?

Tonight’s NYC-area shows include Little Simz, Dead & Company, The Raconteurs, Jackson Browne/Lucius, Hot Water Music, The Ocean Blue, and more.

Choking Victim & World/Inferno added to Punk Island 2019

Reunited ska-core vets Choking Victim just played two rare shows over the weekend, including one with The World/Inferno Friendship Society, and now both have been added to Punk Island…

Punk Island 2019 expands lineup

Annual free, all-ages NYC punk festival Punk Island returns to Randalls Island on June 22 for its 2019 edition. We posted the initial lineup, and now a bunch of bands have been added.

Choking Victim played two rare NYC shows (pics from Warsaw)

’90s-era ska-punks Choking Victim don’t play very often these days (related band Leftover Crack play just a teeny bit more), but they got together for two NYC shows on Sunday. The first was a free matinee show in Tompkins Square Park, and the second was a sold-out night show at Warsaw…