As many have noted, this past weekend in New York was the greatest “punk rock” weekend in sometime. Saturday night alone saw performances across the city from Hot Water Music, Alkaline Trio, Circle Jerks, Dillinger 4, American Steel, Paint It Black, Thursday, Trash Talk and more. If only they had made a huge festival out of this.

As you can tell by the headline, we caught the Hot Water Music reunion show which had support from Thursday and Paint It Black. Each band was spot on, and the ferocious Paint It Black even did a damn fine job making Terminal 5 seem like a basement show as Dan Yemin stood against the barrier the whole time as the crowd gathered close and screamed along.

Thursday’s set included a few songs from each full length as well as a new song from their forthcoming split with Envy. It was an instrumental track called, “In Silence” that sounded stunning.

Hot Water Music was amazing as always. This was actually the third show on their ongoing reunion tour I have seen this year and they never disappoint.

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Earlier this month we announced HOT WATER MUSIC would be performing a reunion show at Terminal 5 in NYC this summer (July 12th).

Well it was just announced that THURSDAY will be joining HWM on stage and the show is now going to be a co-headlining gig. Paint It Black will handle the opening duties.

TICKETS: Thursday | Hot Water Music at Terminal 5

The official statement from Thursday’s lead singer Geoff Rickly.

Hey all-

We’re excited to announce an amazing show we will be playing in NYC this summer. On July 12th, at Terminal 5, we’re co-headlining a show with the legendary Hot Water Music. This band was one of the main influences on us when we started Thursday. Seeing their shows at the church in philly and the melody bar in New Brunswick provided a the spark for us that we still hold close to our hearts. We’re also happy to be playing our first show in Manhattan in two years. hrow on one of the most consistently awesome hardcore bands around today- Paint It Black– and this show is a dream come true for us.

Can’t wait to see you there,
Geoff

PAINT IT BLACK have announced an in store performance at Generation Records on March 1st in support of their forthcoming record New Lexicon on Jade Tree. The in-store is open to the first 50 people to buy the new album at Generation starting February 12th (they are selling the cd a week earlier then the official release!) The band will be performing in the basement of Generation, so get ready to have Dan Yemin scream right in your face while surrounded by Vinyl and the Metal T-shirts. Awesome.

Generation is located on Thompson Street in near Washington Square Park. Paint it Black will perform at the Knitting Factory later that night with STRIKE ANYWHERE.

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