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LAS CRUCES - The people who've been putting on the Vans Warped Tour for the last 16 years like to call it "punk rock summer camp," a nod to the punk, ska, power pop, metal and other musical variations that have been showcased on its multiple stages over the years.

Bird's Mile Home hatches new Americana punk album by Erika Fredrickson Tim Arrowtop has played high energy, aggressive punk rock shows for seven years with his band Reptile Dysfunction. But in 2007, he started listening to Leadbelly and other old-time, roots musicians he found in the record collection of his friend, guitarist Keith Moore. Moore, likewise, scavenged through Arrowtop's punk rock ...

Hails, and welcome to the inaugural post of my metal column for the plenipotentiary Bay Bridged. Tune in the second Sunday of every month for commentary, reviews, and news — a scattershot attempt to update my loyal (and as-yet nonexistent) readers on the world of heavy metal, hardcore, and punk rock. The Old: Peter Tägtgren has been more active as a producer in the last decade or so, helming albums by Immortal, Dimmu Borgir and Children of Bodom. After the rise and undignified fall of th

Bleeding Through continues their mission to rock off faces and implode ear drums while doing so. Straightedge metalcore sensations Bleeding Through continue their mission to rock your face off and implode ear drums with their latest release Declaration. Combining heavy metal, death metal, punk rock, and even a little black metal, they have their own unique style that is just brutal, and that is ...

Fifteen years and still going strong, Propagandhi aren’t a band goddammit, they’re a way of life. Either get on board or get the fuck out of their way. The four anti-capitalist vegans from the plains of Winnipeg are a blunt force trauma to the skull of staid punk rock, who aren’t so much a band for the people by the people, but a band for the people by hockey-loving radicals who are smarter, better read and do more volunteer work than you do. And if that wasn’t enough, they can play their inst