Saturday, April 4, 2015

April Festivals

Every month Patrician Music Reviews posts  small festivals around the nation that you should check out. This fests are usually a mix of punk, hardcore, metal, etc. Here are some fests to check out this month.
New Jersey Toxic Fest 3
This is a hardcore festival that takes place in Secaucus, NJ. This is the third fest of it's history and features heavy hardcore bands and some underground rappers. This is a one day fest and it is on April 4 and starts 2pm. This event will be taking place at The Blue Room.
Skarhead, Razorblade Handgrenade, Brick By Brick, Sicker Than Most, Los Brothers, Knuckle Up!, Low Road, Strength Through Suffering, Scars of Deceit, Full Scale Riot, Internal Warfare, Death Grip, Barbaric, Thick As Thieves, Get Ignorant, Thee Unfukwittables, Grym Galaxy, Wes Nihil, Pryme Prolifix.
Southeast Beast
This a festival that mix up between pop punk, metalcore, and hardcore. This is a two day festival and it took place in Jacksonville, FL. The venue is The Aqua and the date is April 4 & 5.
Day 1 April 4
New Found Glory, The Ghost Inside, H2O, Cro-mags, Citizen, The Acacia Strain, Defeater, A Loss For Words, Apnea, Artifex Pereo, Bad luck, Better Off, Boys No Good, Capsize, Carpathians, Counterparts, Dark Semon, Fireworks, GhostxShip, Gideon, Hotel Books, In Hearts Wake, King Nine, Like Pacific, Nothing Til Blood, Oh Captain My Captain, The Orphan The Poet, Pentimento, Secret Keeper, Speak Low If You Speak Love, Superheaven, This Wild Life, Turnover, Turnstile, Villains, Xerxes.
Day 2 April 5
Life of Agony, Biohazard, letlive., Earth Crisis, Kids Like Us, Afflictive Nature, Another Mistake, Apathy, The Banner, CDC, Chains, Cross Me,  Down In It, Drown, Engraved, Head Creeps, Incited, Lifeless, Modern Art, Old Wounds, Point Blank, Rhythm Of Fear, Sworn Enemy, War Story, Wisdom in Chains.
Damaged City Fest
This is a hardcore fest that takes place in Washington D.C. This is the third annual fest and it is also three days long. From April 10 till the 12th hardcore bands from around the world come to this fest. There are multiple shows each day of the fest.
Day 1 April 10
First Show St. Stephen's Church: The Mob (UK), Government Warning, Night Fever (Denmark), Excruciating Terror, The Flex (UK), Semper Eadem.
Second Show The Pinch: Hounds of Hate, Stapled Shut, Perspex Flesh (UK), Sick Fix, Freak Vibe.
Day 2 April 11
First Show St. Stephen's Church: Career Suicide, Heratys (Sweden), No Tolerance, United Mutation, Vaaska, Nervosas, AJAX, FURY, Spine, Red Death, In School, Leather Daddy, Sectarian Violence, Javla.
Second Show The Pinch: Arms Race, Urbanoia, Pure Disgust, Agression Pact.
Day 3 April 12
The Dance Institute of Washington
Heratys, Coke Bust, Razorheads, Suicidas (Spain), Blood Pressure, Sem Hastro, Public Suicide.
The Big Show 2015
This is a festival that features some of the heaviest bands of hardcore. This event only take places one day at The Foundry Concert Club in Lakewood, Ohio.
Wisdom In Chains, Lionheart, Nasty, These Streets, No Zodiac, Drowning, Vow of Hatred, Knocked Loose, xRepresentx. Counterfeit, Dementor, Heavyweight HC, Lash Out, Ante Up, Hand of Zeus, Alcon, Ruthless.
New York's Alright 2015
This is annual festival that happens in New York City every year and it is meant to be an DIY punk fest. This is spanning three days and different clubs are having it. This will be between April 17 till April 19.
Day 1 Friday April 17
First Show Le Poisson Rouge: Kromosom, Blazing Eye, L.O.T.I.O.N., Pure Disgust, Sadist, Ajax.
Second Show The Acheron: Isterismo, Aspects of War, Mommy, and Special guests.
Day 2 Saturday April 18
First Show Palisades: Condominium, Mystic Insane, Freak Vibe, Nandas.
Second Show Le Poisson Rouge: Warhead, Warthog, La Misma, Blood Pressure, Contingent, 2X4
Third Show The Acheron: Sheer Mag, Vanity, Bad Noids, Tapeheads, Gowanus Mutant Komandos.
Day 3 Sunday April 19
The Wick: Dawn of Humans, Glue, Raw Distractions, Impalers, Urbanoia, Gaucho.
New England Metal and Hardcore Festival
This is an annual festival that takes place in Worcester, MA. This fest has been around since the 1999 and has grown to a huge expansion. The fest will take place at The Palladium and will be on April 17- April 19.
Day 1 Friday April 17
Between The Buried and Me, The Red Chord, Cavalera Conspiracy, Death Angel, Corrosion of Conformity, Overcast, Jasta, Within The Ruins, On Broken Wings, Fit For An Autopsy, The Atlas Moth, The Banner, Black Mask, Homewrecker, Discourse, Phinehas, Downpour.
Day 2 Saturday April 18
Testament, Exodus, Nuclear Assault, NAILS, Turnstile, Indecision, Incendiary, Suburban Scum, Incitation, Vital Remains, Allegaeon, Rivers Of Nihil, The Agonist, Wisdom In Chains, Disgrace, Gods Hate, Thy Will Be Done, Vice, No Zodiac,  Extinction AD, Boris The Blade, Absolute Suffering, and Shattered Sun.
Day 3 Sunday April 19
Motion In White, For Today, The Color Morale, Vanna, Death Before Dishonor, Cruel Hand, Sworn In, Lionheart, The Plot in You, I Declare War, These Streets, My Ticket Home, Nasty, Rude Awakening, Lorna Shore, Gift Giver, The Last Ten Seconds of Life, Brick by Brick, World of Pain, Shark Ethic, Unity, GhostxShip, Living Laser, Oath, Exalt, Eternal Sleep, Jagged Vision,
Broken World Fest 2015 
This an two day festival that Broken World Media is putting up. This is a two day event that takes place April 24 & 25 at Up All Night Records & Collective in North Haven, Connecticut.
Day 1 April 24
I Killed Giants, Sorority Noise, Glocca Morra, Rozwell Kid, Posture & The Grizzly, One Hundred Year Ocean, Told Slant, Patch Kit, People Like You, Trashlord, Nouns, Perspective A Lovely Hand To Hold.
Day 2 April 25
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Old Gray, Empire Empire, Joie De Vivre, Deer Leap, Brightside, Soda Bomb, For Everest, Take One Car, Makeshift Shelters, Zebras & Bulls Fight Tonight, Florida= Death, John Galm, All People, Spit-Take, Tiny Fractures.  

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