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Brought to life by Tommy Meehan/Baxter Yogurt (Grodius Maximus of GWAR), Squid Pisser have just unleashed their new single, “Rats.” It is taken from their upcoming EP, Throat Slave, set for release on August 28th, via Skin Graft Records/Sweatband Records. Check it out below.
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Chaos and aggression is ugly in the world, but music that is chaotic and aggressive just soothes my ears. Living Weapon has released their debut album, Death in the Family (Closed Casket Activities), and has me feeling feral with each play. Over twenty minutes of an inner-ear attack will have you thinking existentially while also needing to throw spinkicks.
Over two years since being shut down in the middle of a show by the New York City Department of Buildings, Saint Vitus Bar will return to Brooklyn this fall in a new location. The new venue will be at 428 Troutman Street in Bushwick, the site of the old Brooklyn Made club, which closed in 2025. After a lot of teasing on social media leading up to the reveal, with a series of videos where Günther, the mascot/mannequin, left the bar at the old Greenpoint location on Manhattan Avenue and Clay Street, leaves his former home and sojourns to his new one. You can watch the last video in the series, which has him arriving at 428 Troutman and going inside, below.
Dubbed the “home of metal” in NYC, if not the USA, by Ghost Cult in our post-mortem about the closure, we are stoked to see it return!
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