The Black Clouds

Friday’s NYC-area shows include Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Coheed and Cambria, Tears for Fears, Failure, With Honor, and more.

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...

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.

Annual free, all-ages NYC punk festival Punk Island returns to Randalls Island in June for its 2019 edition.

Grungy NJ rockers The Black Clouds are releasing their third album After All this January. The album was produced by Seattle grunge legend Jack Endino and it features vocals from another Seattle grunge legend, Mudhoney frontman Mark Arm, on the song “Vice.”

NJ's xylophone-fueled punks Crazy & the Brains have a ton of shows coming up in NYC/NJ, as usual. Their NYC shows include Pianos on Friday (1/15) with The Black Clouds, Those Mocking Birds, Dead Stars and Darkwing (tickets); a free show at Pine Box Rock Shop on Saturday (1/16); one at Palisades on January 21 with Larry & the Babes, Bodega Bay and Little Cobweb (tickets); Good Room on January 30 with Philly folk punks Mischief Brew (headlining), The Homewreckers and Out of System Transfer (tickets); a release party for their new video at Le Poisson Rouge on February 6 with comedian Brett Davis (who they've played with before) and High Waisted (tickets); back to

Make Music New York's Punk Island returns for its eighth year on June 21st, with nearly 100 punk bands, from as far away as the Philippines to as near as the East Village, all gathering on a Staten Island pier - just steps away from the Ferry Terminal -- for a day-long punk experience...

Pissed Jeans were last in NYC earlier this month for two shows at Baby's All Right (I caught the early show which was one of the wilder nights I've had at Baby's), and they're set to return this sum...

No man is an island. A punk fest? Yeah, we'll allow it. The colossal Punk Island show spanning various stages in Staten Island on June 21 still requires your support...