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Tokyo's Pinprick Punishment have been touring the US over the past month. The group is an interesting mix of hardcore and experimentalism, recalling the dissonance of later Black Flag and the choppy rhythms of Bl'ast, thus rightfully earning the 'weird' tag on their Bandcamp page for their 2013 EP Join My Army...

The second annual NYC punk/hardcore festival New York's Alright went down last month (April) with shows at various venues, including the recently-opened Bushwick venue The Wick, which we're highlighting today...

Back in 2011, it was announced that new Brooklyn venue The Wick would open in a former brewery at 260 Meserole St (next to the barely-open outdoor venue The Well), and that venue is finally set to open this March...

Crazy Spirit at New York's Alright 2013 (more by Tod Seelie) Punk and hardcore festival New York's Alright is back for a second year and will run at various venues around the city from Thursday April 17th to Sunday April 20th...

Occultation at Saint Vitus, 2012 (more by Caroline Harrison) After a relatively quiet autumn, NYC-based creepy crawlers Occultation (who share guitarist Ed Miller with the great black metal band Negative Plane) will take their, erm, occult rock on the road for the second time this year in December...

Shoxx at The Acheron, June 2012 (more by BBG) Olympia, Washington's GAG is a hardcore punk force to be reckoned with, and the band are  currently in the midst of a lengthy US tour that, as mentioned in today's What's Going On post, lands tonight (10/8) at Fitness at 1196 Myrtle Avenue with locals Shoxx, Goosebumps, Pleasure Industry and newcomers to the scene IVY (not to be confused with the NYC pop band of the same name)...

The Roots, Louis XIV, Yellowcard, Fat Joe, Pete Yorn, and five other groups are involved in this corporate "secret show" thing. Ten groups will play FREE "secret shows" at undisclosed locations...