ROMP

Gainesville's Dikembe are following 2014's Mediumship (Tiny Engines) with a new album, Hail Something, on July 12 via Death Protector (US), Dog Knights (UK), and Lost Boy (AUS). We posted "Just Explode" off the album back in May, and now we're premiering a stream of the full thing...

Tonight's NYC shows include Kevin Morby, Kristin Kontrol, United Nations, Superheaven, Nails, Olga Bell, Mutual Benefit, and more.

Long Island punks Iron Chic have a bunch of shows coming up in and around their hometown, as usual. In addition to the Silent Majority reunion show in Brooklyn and local fests Wild Fest and Punk Rock Bowling, they play the two NYC-area dates of the Slingshot Dakota and Dikembe tour...

New Brunswick's ROMP recently released their debut album Departure From Venus (Bad Timing Records), which is full of tuneful, lyrical indie-pop punk. We recently met up with the band at an arcade in Philly to film singer/keyboardist Madison Klarer and guitarist Lucas Dalakian playing a stripped-down version of "Come Undone" for the latest BrooklynVegan Acoustic Session.

On the fifth episode of our Spotify show, we talk SXSW, LCD Soundsytem, Thursday, our redesign, pay tribute to Phife Dawg, and lots more.

Scrappy Philly punk duo The Obsessives are on Derrick from TWIABP's label, they just toured with a Modern Baseball side project, and Cam from Sorority Noise mastered their new 7", so you know they're in good company. Check out a new song and catch them on tour.

Stream ROMP's debut LP and Varsity's new 2-song single, catch both bands on separate tours (and a NYC show together).

You guys can knock Tinder all you want, but apparently it's a totally great place to form bands. First Philly's Kississippi said they met that way, and now New Brunswick's ROMP have the sam...

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... "KTHXBAI: A retrospective of the photographic works of Chris La Putt" @ IDIO Gallery BV Photo Editor Chris La Putt passed away last year after a long battle with cancer and we are honored to pay tribute to him with this show of his work...

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... Future Punx, Pill, Eaters, Beth Israel, Heaven's Gate, Steep Leans, MPHO, Sneaks, WALL, Final Bloom, Justin Frye, Order of Operations @ Silent Bar Dull Tools is bringing you this CMJ hangover party at Silent bar, which is up and running after some post-fire renovations...