JESSEFEST

Benefit party for Jesse James Madre, tonight at Lucky Bar, Jersey City, NJ.

Bands, DJs, raffles and giveaways from Allied Tattoo, Jersey City Tattoo, Inked Magazine, Coda Skateboards, NJ Skate Shop, and more. I DJ some tunes at midnight. Cued up:

A.R.E. Weapons
Anasazi
Billy Idol
Boogie Down Productions
Call of the Wild
Company B
D.A.D.
Damned, The
etc.

Info, here.

Photo by Dean Chooch Landry

Recap of new releases

OUT NOW:

Jun 30 - Old Wounds - The Suffering Spirit - Good Fight Music

Jul 10 - Power - Heavy Muscle - Twelve Gauge Records

Jul 10 - Great American Ghost - Everyone Leaves - Good Fight Music

UP NEXT:

Aug 7 - Stern - Bone Turquoise - New Atlantis Records

• Members of Kayo Dot, Time of Orchids, Secret Chiefs 3, Vaura

• "Alien pop" – dissonant, cinematic, soaring songs, in line with Mike Patton, Shudder to Think, Ennio Morricone

• Recorded and mixed at Strange Weather Studio (Liturgy, The Men, DIIV)

• In the Brooklyn scene of Kayo Dot, Mick Barr, Psalm Zero

• "Strange, aqueous... full of pop-like tunes, all hip-checked sideways and left to melt in the summer sun." –Decibel

• "Stern draw on everything from avant-garde metal to film scores in forging their self-described 'alien pop' sound." –Invisible Oranges

Aug 7 - STATS - Mercy - New Atlantis Records

• The passion of hardcore punk meets the musicianship of progressive rock

• Produced by ex-The Men guitarist Ben Greenberg

• Members' past/present credits include stints in Aa, Psalm Zero, Extra Life, Ocrilim, and projects with members of Dazzling Killmen and Craw

• "Dizzyingly complex screamoid marathons... the mangled jazz/metal of [late] Black Flag collide head on with Don Caballero's avant-prog mania." –Noisey

• "Pissed-off noisy hardcore, math rock technicality, and a weird operatic part... It's out-there stuff." –BrooklynVegan

Aug 21 - Extinction A.D. - Faithkiller - Good Fight Music 

• Four ex-members of This Is Hell

• Razor-sharp thrash metal

• On tour now in US

• "A 21st-century powerhouse upgrade of Eighties thrash... The best aspects of early Metallica and Testament." –Guitar World

Aug 21 - Nathan Gray - NTHN GRY - Good Fight Music

• Debut solo EP from Boysetsfire frontman

• Satanic post-industrial pop with nods to Death in June, Dead Can Dance, Skinny Puppy, Portishead

• European tour in August

Sep 4 - Axis - Show Your Greed - Good Fight Music

• New Good Fight Music signing

• Killer young band from Orlando, FL on the metallic hardcore tip – the heaviness of Turmoil/Buried Alive, the gloom of Kiss It Goodbye/All Else Failed

• Produced by Taylor Young of Nails and Twitching Tongues

• On tour this summer w/ labelmates Old Wounds, Of Feather and Bone, and more

Sep 18 - Of Feather and Bone - Embrace the Wretched Flesh - Good Fight Music

• New Good Fight Music signing

• Ripping young trio from the Denver scene of Primitive Man, Call of the Void, etc. – savage crust/grind/gloom in line with '90s German crust gods Acme, or modern-day warriors Cult Leader

• Produced by Andy Patterson (Cult Leader, Call of the Void)

• On tour this summer w/ labelmates Axis, Old Wounds, and more

AND COMING SOON, NEW RELEASES BY:

Graf Orlock

Hollow Earth

Nervous

So Hideous

White Widows Pact

+ more!

THANKS

THANKS

THANKS