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Jeffrey Lewis just released a video for "Sad Screaming Old Man," a song from last year's Manhattan. The stop-motion animated video, made by by Nicholas Clark/Minnowland, is a literal visualization of the song's lyrics about one of Jeffrey's neighbors and the desire for a dec…

We keep getting more and more hints that The Wrens' long-awaited followup to 2003's The Meadowlands is coming. Last year they said it was complete, more recently they signed a record deal, and then posted the above picture which is, apparently, a CD-R with the final recordings of the al...

Saturday October 4 marked my 14 year anniversary of living in this overpriced hellhole we call New York City. In honor of yours truly and this personal milestone, New York City hardcore veterans Sick of it All headlined a sick quadruple bill at a very packed Irving Plaza...

Sick Of It All at Rev25 (more by Rebecca Reed)

NYHC vets Sick Of It All have announced that they'll release their tenth album, The Last Act of Defiance, on September 30 (album art and tracklist below), and will play a hometown show soon after that on October 4 at Irving Plaza with fellow NYC pun…

NYHC vets Sheer Terror put out Standing Up For Falling Down, their first album in 18 years, earlier this year, and not along ago played a hometown show at Brooklyn Night Bazaar...

We recently attended the PS 154 benefit at the Bell House where two singing members of The Wrens were gloriously back on stage together again after a rocking set...

"They've been talking us down for so long, I almost started to believe them all."

Those are Madball singer Freddy Cricien's first unassisted words on new single "Doc Marten Stomp...

The Wrens at Maxwell's in 2009 (more by Anna Scialli)

A number of local indie musicians will be teaming up to play a benefit for Windsor Terrace's PS154 at Brooklyn's Bell House on May 30...

Japanese punk band Ultra Bidé formed back in 1978, and have been churning out a mix of caustic noise rock, art punk, and post-hardcore ever since...

Punk Island returns to Governors Island on June 19 as part of the annual city-wide Make Music New York fest (which actually occurs two days later)...