Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the Beirut show at Radio City go on sale at noon. Tickets for the Stars shows at Bowery Ballroom and MHOW go on sale at noon. Tickets to see the September 9 Chelsea Wolfe and Wovenhand show... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher photo: Chelsea Wolfe at Levitation 2015 (more by PSquared) We already heard one song from the upcoming Chelsea Wolfe album, "Iron Moon," which, for someone who's always been at least somewhat associated with metal, was maybe the... more info

Stereogum — For whatever reason, all the best all the best albums I’ve heard this spring have been dank, dark, hopeless, fearsome, towering things, all expansive wrath and monolithic misanthropy: Triptykon’s Melana Chasmata, EMA’s The Future’s Void, Wove... more info

Stereogum — The Swans reunion is an unambiguously great thing: A band of grizzled veterans channeling all the forces of darkness and playing half-hour symphonies to the abyss, staring all their deepest impulses in the face and submitting to them entirely. A Swan... more info

Stereogum — Refractory Obdurate, the new album from former 16 Horsepower frontman David Eugene Edwards’s Wovenhand project, somehow walks the line between blackened, apocalyptic roots music and scorched-earth postpunk. Converge frontman Jacob Bannon’s Deathw... more info

Stereogum — David Eugene Edwards came up as frontman of the Denver-based 16 Horsepower, an alt-country band that signed to A&M at a time when major labels were signing alt-country bands across the United States (16 Horsepower released their debut EP in 1995, the... more info