Rixe

The DC punk festival includes Turnstile, Limp Wrist, Radioactivity, The Flex, Warthog, Rixe, Wildhoney, Primal Rite, Red Death, and more.

Annual DC punk festival Damaged City Fest returns in April.

Night Birds, Mean Jeans and Western Addiction (who also announced a new album) offer up best-of-2016 lists.

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…

Not to be confused with California’s inaugural it’s Not Dead Fest, Toronto’s annual Not Dead Yet fest returns in 2015 from October…