We are super excited that the end of the summer festival season doesn’t mean the end to good shows. Highly recommended Part Time Punks Festival  in Los Angele’s comes back on October 11for a second installment. With may bands to be excited about we are especially  looking forward to Jazz Butcher. Another installment from Milan Decays Festival Bats over Milan October 23, 24 also shines with a post punk line up with likes of the Fall and the Lorrys.  And last but not least first ever show (and what a great one! ) for one of our sister companies Vienna Decay (November 7) with Artery, Savage Republic and Squishy Squid. See you at the show kids!

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Coming soon Also included videos, mp3,s Legendary Pink Dots Interview, New Bands, Show reviews, in love with the gadget, remembering Cramps, style watch, Festival coverage

Feb 510 pm Fan Death @ Le Royale
Feb 7 11pm LEIF Tubway @ Mr.Blacks

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Next weekends NY Eye and Ear Festival is totally non genre specific, with the only unifying factor being proximity to NYC and the Do It Your Self attitude. Much like me you might be looking at this line up and not recognize most of the bands or labels so why should you care enough to attend? I’ll give you 4 easy  reasons: discovering new music, supporting independent music and labels, there is surely quality underground darker stuff on the bill you will like, and its a damn cheap ticket (15$ for 2 day festival, am I right?). It’s really a kind of noon brainier but let me illustrate the point about darker or weirder bands of immediate interest to the Drop Dead audience. .On Friday Magick Report, Hells Hills and Realax are experimental electronics,  each interesting its own way, Taigaa! are girl synth wave. Wierd Label and Tesco are both participating with a DJ set from both 1:30 till you fall asleep , so you know that’s going to be good. Saturday is a crazy day with over 20 bands. There is more experimental electronics from  Ben Miller/Degeneration, minimal from Silk Flowers and Xeno & Oaklander, punk Michael Jordan, experimental weirdness of Necking and Zs ambient Infinity Window,  cool laid back  Excepter, and of course post apocalyptic folk Cult of Youth (think Death in June). All these bands and a wholle lota new music you never heard before. See you there punks!

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Don’t Forget this weekend the mega 8-Bit Blip Festival is back December 4—7, 2008 at The Bell House.

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Great news for art punks and weird wave fiends it has just been announced that the second annual Mutant Transmissions Festival will take place in NYC on April 5th and 6th, 2009.

Last years MTF took place in LA and spotlighted a slew of excellent west coast bands as well as some interlopers. This year mutant Transmissions hits NYC which will give a an opportunity for the east coast weirdos to join in the fun. MT is a DIY event and invites local art and music community to get involved in planning and production. The younger crowd is also not excluded since the festival is traditionally an all ages event and every one is embraced with equal id not all together sane enthusiasm. Watch for the line up and updates on Mutant Transmissions Myspace. To join in the fun email mutanttransmissions at gmail dot com.

I miss old punk shows , i miss circle pits at CBGBs, all my friends going crazy to a good band. I need a punk fix, and just in time here comes ONE BIG CROWD.   Saturday December 6, 2008 at Knitting Factory OBC is a tribute to infamous NYC 80’s club A7. with over 30 early hardcore punk bands from east coast. No we are not talking a bastard of metal and punk that hardcore became later. This is real punk, raw, fast and infectious. A rare chance to see many of these early bands , few of which are doing a one off.

MP3: Jerry’s Kids - Desperate
Links:
A7NYHCreunion http://www.myspace.com/a7reunion
Knitting Factory http://ny.knittingfactory.com

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