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Coney Island Baby, the new venue in the East Village space that used to be Brownies and Hi-Fi Bar, has announced its initial schedule. The Opening Night show is April 26 with Murphy’s Law…

It continues to be stacked week for shows in (and around) NYC. Tonight there’s Iggy Pop, Ween, Melvins/Napalm Death/Melt-Banana, CoC, Tim Hecker/Prurient, Kyp Malone, Future Punx/Pujol/Nude Beach, Japanese Breakfast, Esperanza Spalding and still more!

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Swervedriver, Gateway Drugs @ Music Hall of Williamsburg Arguably the heaviest, most rocking of the original UK shoegaze acts, Swervedriver returned this year with their first new album since the ’90s — and it’s pretty damn good…

Long-running San Francisco-via-Chicago punks The Dwarves are still at it and (like many punk bands) not deviating much at all from their classic material (like 1990’s Blood Guts & Pussy)…

Joanna Gruesome @ Shea Stadium earlier this week (more by Dylan Johnson) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights…

One of the bands playing the Burger Revolution show at Union Pool on Saturday (3/8) (with Threats and BOYTOY) are Baby in Vain, a three-piece from Denmark who are still in their teens and make bluesy sludge rock…

After a successful first try at a world rock n’ roll uprising, Burger Records is back with it’s second annual Burger Revolution which will happen at venues all over the world on March 8…

New York punks Marathon, whose lineup included two members that went on to form to Polar Bear Club (but both recently left that band), broke up back in 2006 after the release of their only full length (self-titled)…

Wayne Kramer and his wife Margaret are “The Beast and the Angel,” a short film from Adam McKay and Shira Piven that appears as the third segment in “Lifecasters…