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Two long-running sites -- Brooklyn culture blog Free Williamsburg and music site Tiny Mix Tapes -- are calling it a day.

Confines (David Castillo of Primitive Weapons, White Widows Pact, Saint Vitus Bar) turns Full of Hell's ”Angels Gather Here” into a gothy industrial banger.

Here's all the metal we posted on BV this week, including The Armed, Torche, Wear Your Wounds, Falls of Rauros, Melvins & Flipper, Wormed, Destruction, Abbath, and more.

Listen to new songs by Jai Paul, Abbath, Jesse Malin & Lucinda Williams, Chk Chk Chk, Erykah Badu, Whitney, Lost Under Heaven, and more.

Having started in Chicago, Industrial/goth fest Cold Waves now also happens in Los Angeles and NYC. The lineups, all in September, also include Severed Heads, Paul Barker, and more...

Tonight's NYC-area shows include Brooklyn Folk Festival, DMX, Viagra Boys/Pottery, Rapsody, Patio, Balance & Composure/Tigers Jaw, Deafheaven/Baroness, Burna Boy, Lupe Fiasco, and more.

Plus: The Woolen Men, Beach Rats, and more tour news.

The newly added Saint Vitus show is their second at the Brooklyn venue (the first is sold out).

After expanding from Chicago to L.A., industrial/EBM fest Cold Waves comes to NYC...

Veteran goth/darkwave act Clan of Xymox (who also went just by Xymox for a while), have remained active over the last three decades, and earlier this year released Days of Black, which doesn't stray too far from the gloomy, melodic, danceable sound of early 4AD classics like "Muscoviet Mos…