Last night at The Acheron members of Friends and Tear It Up debuted their new post-punk infused hardcore project Pagan Rituals. The band played a tight 20 minute set. And they’ll do it again tonight at Big Snow Buffalo Lodge in Brooklyn. A video edit of their set is below, alongside clips of the supporting acts.

Pagan Rituals at The Acheron

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In what was a rather unusual billing for ‘heavy and loud’ venue Saint Vitus, Marissa Nadler and Dutch Jim Jarmusch collaborator Jozef van Wissem graced the blackened Greenpoint stage with a night of fragile bliss. Video edits of both performances are posted below.

Marissa Nadler at Saint Vitus

Jozef van Wissem at Saint Vitus

The tenth installment of Pat Noecker’s drone project ASSEMBLE was performed at Knockdown Center in Maspeth, Queens last Saturday. This is a complete recording of the early show. Alexandra Drewchin JR., Bonnie Baxter, James Corrigan, Jeanann Dara, David First, Kate Henderson, Laura Ortman, Michael Durek, Camilla Ha, Daniel Schlett, Sto Len, Ted McGrath, Jason Poranski, Sadaf H. and Adam Holquist simultaneously played the notes of A and E, while RAFT orchestrated musical changes and pauses to them by text message. ASSEMBLE collaborator and video artist Matthew Caron, with Peter Shapiro, Eric Drasin, Reid Bingham, Sofy Yuditskaya and Matt Romain of Fast Food Music Video handled the kaleidoscopic visuals throughout the night.

On Friday, May 10, NYU’s annual Strawberry Fest took over LaGuardia Place in Manhattan with all sorts of shenanigans, all and foremost a stellar billing of live bands which included Merchandise and Mission of Burma. Short video edits of their performances are posted below.

Merchandise at Strawberry Fest

Mission of Burma at Strawberry Fest

Pendu recording artist You played the weekly Nothing Changes party at Home Sweet Home. A 2 song video edit is below.

Here’s a little Sonic Youth diddy called “Silver Rocket” from when they played Battery Park on 4th of July back in 2008.

Last Friday, Nails played a sold out show at Saint Vitus. Video of that is below, alongside clips of the openers White Widows, Early Graves and Xibalba.

Nails at Saint Vitus on May 3, 2013

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Before heading to Europe today for a string of shows, Into Another played a sold out warm up gig at Saint Vitus. Watch the last two songs of their hourlong set below, “May I” and “Running Into Walls”.

Last Sunday at Public Assembly and Monday at The Flat the fifth installment of Annihilvs’s Apex Fest tried to annihilate Brooklyn with a tidal wave of power electronics, harsh noise, ambient and other forms of electronically fueled sonic warfare. Below is a complete video recap of every single artist

En Nihil

The [Law-Rah] Collective

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Spiritualized played a warm-up show for their upcoming tour at Bushwick DIY art space Secret Project Robot last night. A 30 minute video edit is below.