THIRSTY CITY ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY: DURAZZO, LISA VAZQUEZ, MONTGOMERY WORD, NORTHERN DRAW, & MORE
(The Know, 2026 NE Alberta) See My, What a Busy Week!

HEAD WOUND CITY, GRAVE BABIES, VICE DEVICE
(Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi) Out of all of the high-profile reunions of the 2010s, Head Wound City might be the most unexpected. Not that these shows and the remastered EP arrive unwelcome, but the band—members of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blood Brothers, and the Locust—always seemed too weird to happen again. Oddly enough, the band sounds more straightforward than the sum of its parts, like a kind of Bob Ross paint-by-numbers of spazzy grindcore, but, hey, for some people, that's exactly the itch that needs to be scratched. (And Bob Ross did some cool things, too. Look at those trees, man. Those were three brush strokes each and it looks like freakin' Yosemite in your living room.) MP Also see My, What a Busy Week!