ON SALE THIS FRIDAY 5/10 @ NOON IN METRO:
Saturday, May 25: 2ND SHOW ADDED DUE TO DEMAND! A Metro 30th Anniversary Event... CHANCE THE RAPPER * SIR MICHAEL ROCKS
Friday, June 28: 2ND SHOW ADDED DUE TO DEMAND! A Metro 30th Anniversary Event... NAKED RAYGUN * ZERO BOYS * THE CROMBIES
Wednesday, July 24: RX BANDITS * NORTHERN FACES
Tuesday, September 10: DEERHUNTER
Friday, October 25: A Metro 30th Anniversary Event... DESAPARECIDOS

JUST ANNOUNCED - ON SALE NOW IN METRO:
Sunday, May 26: A Metro 30th Anniversary Event... CHANCE THE RAPPER * SIR MICHAEL ROCKS

ON SALE THIS FRIDAY 5/3 @ NOON IN METRO:
Friday, July 5: A Metro 30th Anniversary Event... SQUAREPUSHER

ON SALE THIS SATURDAY 5/4 @ NOON:
Monday, June 17: TRICKY

Approaching the one-year anniversary of their last mixtape, The Hood Internet has released their latest surge of mashups with The Mixtape Volume Seven. With 25 tracks chopped, mixed and merged, the mixtape crosses old favorites and new hits (Usher x Rick Ross x Santigold—‘nuff said). The Mixtape Volume Seven is available for free download now, so no excuses for missing this pounding summer soundtrack.

Plenty hyped and ready to deliver, Chance the Rapper has released his second mixtape, Acid Rap. The Chicago hip-hop stud is following up on last year’s 10 Day. Pegging the sophomore release as “the best tape to come out in 2013,” the young local is armed and ready to challenge any skeptics. Decide for yourself and listen to Acid Rap here.

Having exploded out of the gate in 2010 with the album Pickin’ Up the Pieces, Fitz and the Tantrums haven’t slowed down since. In the three years since their debut album they have found international success, extensively toured the world and still managed to find the time to record their highly anticipated sophomoric effort More Than Just a Dream. The album has premiered via Hype Machine and all twelve tracks are available to listen to in their entirety. The album drops just in time for the summer on May 7^th, Fitz and the Tantrums play a brief two-night residency at the Metro on June 18^th and 19^th. You can listen to More Than Just a Dream here.

Kurt Vile nabbed a strong following with his ten-track confessional Smoke Ring For My Halo, and it seems like he’s outdone himself with the sun-bleached haze of Wakin on a Pretty Daze. Vile has released a video for insistently cathartic single “Never Run Away.” The video follows an ever-pensive Vile—clad in all white—strumming away in the most desolate pockets of an unnamed city.

Spitting that Jersey salt and spewing irreverent jibes partly for the sake of the workingman, all for the sake of saving punk, Titus Andronicus have become the rising champions of rock in their seven-year career. Snagging their name from the eponymous Shakespeare play, Titus Andronicus has expertly retained all of the tact and none of the pomp of their English class inspiration. Chugging out three albums and a slew of EP’s—including a Civil War concept album, complete with a glorious bagpipe solo—Titus pushed rock into ambitious, deeply calculated territory.

Rolling Stone touted Titus as “one of the seven best new bands of 2010” and backed that title with their latest release Local Business. Tugging at the brackish roots of their home city, the Jersey quintet have learned to pack a punch, and more importantly, when to store it in their back pocket. The five-strong group, tromping through swashes of reverb and feedback fuzz, proves that their former tour slogan was no joke—punk is, indeed, back.