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'Dee Snider's Jam for Autism'

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Witch cast their evil spell on Santos'

Four Top Five Lists From The Spits

Ever-touring, ever-spazzing, ever-wig-donning punk rock nutsos The Spits have a brand-new album out on In the Red, their fifth. It's called, as all their albums are, The Spits, and it's another buzzy blast of freaky fun, if a tad darker than the rest of their gonzoid garage catalog. To celebrate its ... More >>

Going Silent: The Last Party At Silent Barn

Maks Suski​ "This is totally normal," G. Lucas Crane says as he drags an amp and a box full of cassettes into his former kitchen. The experimental musician (and occasional tape manipulator for Woods) studies the giant plastic balls hanging from the ceiling, which change color as people talk, a ... More >>

The Bad Plus

Maks Suski​ "This is totally normal," G. Lucas Crane says as he drags an amp and a box full of cassettes into his former kitchen. The experimental musician (and occasional tape manipulator for Woods) studies the giant plastic balls hanging from the ceiling, which change color as people talk, a ... More >>

Pentagram

Maks Suski​ "This is totally normal," G. Lucas Crane says as he drags an amp and a box full of cassettes into his former kitchen. The experimental musician (and occasional tape manipulator for Woods) studies the giant plastic balls hanging from the ceiling, which change color as people talk, a ... More >>

The Top 10 Christmas Albums Of 2010

No.​Ah, another shitty year is ending, and we find ourselves trying to buy our way out of it with Christmas presents while struggling to block out the same old endless stream of yuletide muzak. Luckily, there's always a few notable holiday-album standouts to break the tedium, this year includi ... More >>

Live: A Revitalized Ozzy Osbourne And Rob Halford Stay Young At Madison Square Garden

Good advice. Pics by Phil Freeman, more below.​Ozzy Osbourne/Rob Halford Madison Square Garden Wednesday, December 1 Better than: Any other Ozzy performance of the 2000s. Ozzy Osbourne is turning 62 on Friday. That makes him older than his new guitarist (the shredtastic Gus G. of Greek power ... More >>

Download All The Songs Sampled On Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

​Given Kanye West's total ubiquity these past few weeks/months/years, it's jarring to realize that his profoundly unraveled My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is not even officially out yet. And yet the Internet dissection is well under way -- just as Girl Talk's All Day (which we can't exactly ... More >>

Live: Brooklyn's Hedonistic Waffles & Tits Party Takes On Heavy Metal Parking Lot

Just your average Sunday afternoon. Pics by Chris, more below.​Waffles & Tits 3: Heavy Metal Parking Lot House of Yes Sunday, October 24 Waffles & Tits, Brooklyn's traveling shit-show of a Sunday-afternoon party, is equal parts rock opera, Vaudeville revival, and Gathering of the Juggalos-esq ... More >>

Fu Manchu+Black Tusk+It's Casual

Just your average Sunday afternoon. Pics by Chris, more below.​Waffles & Tits 3: Heavy Metal Parking Lot House of Yes Sunday, October 24 Waffles & Tits, Brooklyn's traveling shit-show of a Sunday-afternoon party, is equal parts rock opera, Vaudeville revival, and Gathering of the Juggalos-esq ... More >>

Black Mountain

Just your average Sunday afternoon. Pics by Chris, more below.​Waffles & Tits 3: Heavy Metal Parking Lot House of Yes Sunday, October 24 Waffles & Tits, Brooklyn's traveling shit-show of a Sunday-afternoon party, is equal parts rock opera, Vaudeville revival, and Gathering of the Juggalos-esq ... More >>

This Weekend! James Maynard's Blood Into Wine, Reverend Horton Heat, Glee Live!, Holy Fuck, Nice Nice, Ninjasonik, So So Glos, Ava Luna, Bushick Rooftop Fest, And Much Much More

Tonight, the second viewing of Blood Into Wine, the documentary on Tool frontman James Maynard Keenan's brass-knuckled corkscrew domination of the Arizona winemaking frontier, aptly commences at the City Winery. Meanwhile, cowboy punk Reverend Horton Heat delivers his second sermon of "epically s ... More >>

A User's Guide To Ronnie James Dio, 1942-2010

The metal world lost one of its greatest voices, and one of its nicest guys, on Sunday morning, when legendary singer Ronnie James Dio died of stomach cancer at 67. After swatting away Internet rumors earlier that day, Dio's wife and manager, Wendy Dio, finally delivered the news herself: "Today m ... More >>

Big Win for Satan: Heavy Metal Addict Wins Disability Benefits

​If you think your union's solid, think again. Satan's apparently in the labor law business these days, and he's making your lawyer look like My Cousin Vinny.

Pentagram+the Gates of Slumber

​If you think your union's solid, think again. Satan's apparently in the labor law business these days, and he's making your lawyer look like My Cousin Vinny.

Arctic Monkeys

​If you think your union's solid, think again. Satan's apparently in the labor law business these days, and he's making your lawyer look like My Cousin Vinny.

This Week's Voice: Rap's Online Overdose, Our Jazz Consumer Guide, Heaven & Hell, Quentin Tarantino, and More

Charles Hamilton, hitting delete​In this week's Village Voice, Ben Detrick reports on rap's online overdose and the perils of allowing guys like Charles Hamilton anywhere near the Internet. Tom Hull presents the summer edition of our Jazz Consumer Guide. Phil Freeman celebrates the rebirth o ... More >>

Heaven & Hell+Coheed & Cambria

Charles Hamilton, hitting delete​In this week's Village Voice, Ben Detrick reports on rap's online overdose and the perils of allowing guys like Charles Hamilton anywhere near the Internet. Tom Hull presents the summer edition of our Jazz Consumer Guide. Phil Freeman celebrates the rebirth o ... More >>

Heaven & Hell Rise Again

The return of Dio-Era Black Sabbath

Yes In My Backyard: Download Werewolves' "Dora Gerson" MP3

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. Recently, we've given you the Beets' "Don't Fit In My Head" and the exclusive video for Motel Motel's "Coffee" Brooklyn's Werewolves brandish psych textures like weapons. Black Mountaineers without the ... More >>

In Praise of The Awl's "Public Apology" Column

He forgives youNYC-media liberal-elite types are most probably already acquainted with The Awl, a Gawker-alumni-heavy carnival of gossip, irreverence, and occasional profundity. The site's star attraction is Dave Bry's "Public Apology" column, wherein he begs forgiveness for a wide variety of hila ... More >>

'Paganfest America Part II'

He forgives youNYC-media liberal-elite types are most probably already acquainted with The Awl, a Gawker-alumni-heavy carnival of gossip, irreverence, and occasional profundity. The site's star attraction is Dave Bry's "Public Apology" column, wherein he begs forgiveness for a wide variety of hila ... More >>

Acid Mothers Temple

He forgives youNYC-media liberal-elite types are most probably already acquainted with The Awl, a Gawker-alumni-heavy carnival of gossip, irreverence, and occasional profundity. The site's star attraction is Dave Bry's "Public Apology" column, wherein he begs forgiveness for a wide variety of hila ... More >>

New Year's Eve 2009: New York Shows, Continued

He forgives youNYC-media liberal-elite types are most probably already acquainted with The Awl, a Gawker-alumni-heavy carnival of gossip, irreverence, and occasional profundity. The site's star attraction is Dave Bry's "Public Apology" column, wherein he begs forgiveness for a wide variety of hila ... More >>

"Teenage Alternative Realities" and Black Sabbath in John Darnielle's Master of Reality

He forgives youNYC-media liberal-elite types are most probably already acquainted with The Awl, a Gawker-alumni-heavy carnival of gossip, irreverence, and occasional profundity. The site's star attraction is Dave Bry's "Public Apology" column, wherein he begs forgiveness for a wide variety of hila ... More >>

The Melvins: Older, But the Same Age

Rock's idiot savants return

John Darnielle Rhapsodizes Black Sabbath This Saturday Night

Rock's idiot savants return

No Context: Orchestral Black Sabbath (Backwards) at Passerby

Rock's idiot savants return

Optimo Demolish the Subgenre

Rock's idiot savants return

Vaya Con Dio

The other Black Sabbath whips Baphomet's ass at Radio City

Crazy Covers Curated by Very Special Guest DJ Colleen

The other Black Sabbath whips Baphomet's ass at Radio City

Live: Metal God Wino

The other Black Sabbath whips Baphomet's ass at Radio City

Don't Call It Noise Music

Japanese metal bands summon power and energy from the '70s

Ratty Cool

TV hospital drama life unfolds to new new wave

Wild East

Messy Japanese rockers make annoyances work for them

Lycanthropy

Carnies, wolves, and goblin cocks transmogrify CMJ indie-rock fest

Chapels of Love

Eager young bands kneel down to altar, re-create history of psychedelic rock in own image

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Eager young bands kneel down to altar, re-create history of psychedelic rock in own image

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Eager young bands kneel down to altar, re-create history of psychedelic rock in own image

Listings

We come from garageland and we rock with drink in hand

Listings

We come from garageland and we rock with drink in hand

Pet Sounds Boy

We come from garageland and we rock with drink in hand

Listings

We come from garageland and we rock with drink in hand

Gossamer Wings of Poop

We come from garageland and we rock with drink in hand

Fester and Carbuncle

We come from garageland and we rock with drink in hand

Doomsday in the MP3 Wars

Excavating Stoned Metal From the Internet

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Excavating Stoned Metal From the Internet

Borgo Pass

Excavating Stoned Metal From the Internet

Scrap Metal

Excavating Stoned Metal From the Internet