Brooklyn Vegan — photo: GWAR at 'Empire Records' celebration (more by Sachyn Mital) GWAR, who were just in NYC for the Empire Records 20th anniversary, will be putting on another installment of their annual GWAR-B-Q this year. The fest happens in Richmond from... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — L.A. fun-punk vets The Dickies have been touring consistently over the last few years, and they've recently announced a bunch of dates in North America and Australia for 2014 and 2015. The tour will include a stop in NYC... more info

Guardian Music — From King Kong to Space Monkey, here are your songs with a simian sensibilityMonkey songs are often those with a swinging sense of fun – gibberish, even – if your recommendations over the last week are anything to go by.Take Gino Washington's sou... more info

Chorus.fm — Chris Conley of *Saves the Day* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/savestheday), Matt Pryor of *The Get Up Kids* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/thegetupkids), and Anthony Raneri of *Bayside* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/bayside) huddled around the Dickies' ... more info

Dlisted — Lindsay Lohan would fellate a frog for a dime bag (Who wouldn't, though?) and give Hugh Hefner's colostomy hole a wet willy for a spread in Playboy, but now she's really hit the "ground zero desperation" button on life's elevator ... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — Oh man, if only this YouTube tutorial on how to dress punk had been around when I was in middle school! I mean, I still would have embarrassed myself, but it would have been in a completely different way. Instead of Operation Ivy tees, Converse and b... more info

Guardian Music — Are a new generation pogoing to the Offspring, Glassjaw and New Found Glory, or did pop-punk never go away?It's Thursday night in a packed London basement and sweaty people are going wild. Revellers hang from the ceiling, the DJ is wearing a backward... more info

Altsounds — *Album White Hat Out September 13 On Saddle Creek Watch Big Harp Perform “All Bets Are Off” For Dickies Sound* *Big Harp* is the by-product of a three-year whirlwind for husband-and-wife duo Chris Senseney (vocals, guitar, keyboa... more info

Guardian Music — As Snoop Dogg prepares to perform his 1993 debut album in full, we remember why it was such a rap game-changerIt proved that rappers could reinvent themselvesSnoop had been part of going-nowhere rap group 213 before he handed a tape of his own work t... more info

Guardian Music — Songs for kiddywinks often perform the basic function of getting them to shut up and go to sleep. Others go beyond the call of duty to entertain, challenge and informThe best children's music has to withstand extreme repetition, since kids insist on ... more info