Xibalba

Saturday's NYC-area shows include Lagwagon, The Slackers, The Aggrolites, Steve Gunn & Jeff Parker, and more

The DC death metallers also play a toy drive in NYC this month with Xibalba, Section H8, Hangman, Scowl, Soul Blind, and Stabbed.

Plus: A Wilhelm Scream / Comeback Kid, Parquet Courts, Amyl and the Sniffers, Cate Le Bon, Sondre Lerche, Show Me the Body, Bounding Souls, Whitmer Thomas, Bent Arcana (OSEES, TVOTR), and more tour and festival news.

”I’m talking about people thinking outside their idea of what 'life should be' and kinda just calling for people to question what the hell they’re actually doing and question why it might be what they're told.”

It'll be Ludicra's first show in over a decade, and the initial lineup also includes Mizmor, Ringworm, Cloak, Xibalba, Vile Creature, Racetraitor, Oryx, and more...

Live music continues to comeback, and the return of West Coast hardcore has been especially insane...

To make up for the two lost years, Hellfest returns for two weeks in 2022, and it would be easier to list which heavy bands *aren't* playing...

The Saint Vitus Bar co-owner and booker reflects on 2020 and lists some of his favorite music of the year, including releases from HUM, Gulch, Ulcerate, Nothing, Deftones, Pallbearer, Jesu, Jessie Ware, Oranssi Pazuzu, Lido Pimienta, Chubby and the Gang, Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist and more.

From Napalm Death to Ulcerate to Black Curse to Faceless Burial to Boris to Necrot, here are our favorite metal albums of the year...

Necrot, Spirit Adrift, Napalm Death, Sweven, Pallbearer, Crowbar's Kirk Windstein, Oranssi Pazuzu, and more... what do you think of their list?