Brooklyn Vegan — Like their Gainesville counterparts, Hot Water Music, As Friends Rust doesn't give a damn what you think punk is about. They've broken it down to it's original components: raw emotion, no bullshit riffage, and hooks galore. In their reconstruction, t... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Tim Kasher in Brooklyn in 2012 (more by Ryan Muir) Old Point Light Records' "Fourward" series is a series of compilation albums that benefit the American Cancer Society and Johns Hopkins Myositis Center. The third installment is... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher #deafheaven on now @funfunfunfest #ffffest #funfunfunfest A photo posted by BVAustin (@bvaustin) on Nov 11, 2014 at 2:19pm PST #rocketfromthecrypt @funfunfunfest #ffffest #funfunfunfest A photo posted by BVAustin (@bvaustin) on Nov 1... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — In addition to being National Metal Day, it's also Veteran's Day and in honor of that Anti-Flag's label A-F Records is premiering a stream of their new compilation, This Concerns Everyone, which will benefit the Right To Heal Campaign.... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — We recently mentioned that Hot Water Music co-frontman Chuck Ragan will be on tour this year, hitting NYC on December 6 at Rough Trade with Adam Faucett (tickets), and it's now been announced that he'll be in the NYC-area... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Hot Water Music co-frontman Chuck Ragan is going on another solo tour this year, including a December Northeast run with his backing back The Camaraderie, which includes Lucero and Social Distortion members. That tour hits NYC on December 6... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Touche Amore at Santos in 2011 (more by Rebecca Reed) Gainesville punk mecca The Fest recently announced its 2014 lineup and now many additional artists were announced, including Hot Water Music, Screaming Females, Touche Amore, Pianos Become the Tee... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Chuck Ragan w/ HWM at MHOW in 2013 (more by Jonathan McPhail) Hot Water Music co-frontman Chuck Ragan will release his fourth solo album, Til Midnight, on March 25 via SideOneDummy. Like most of his solo material,... more info

Chorus.fm — You can stream a new song from *Unwed (http://www.absolutepunk.net/tags/unwed/)* here (http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/16489-made-of/). Unwed brings together several veterans from 1990s post hardcore: bassist Jason Black hails from Hot Water Musi... more info

Chorus.fm — *Hot Water Music* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/hotwatermusic) is doing a StageIt (http://www.stageit.com/hotwatermusic/hwm_live_and_worldwide/31441) tomorrow at 12 PM EST. more info