Metalcore veterans Botch played a pair of farewell shows over the weekend. Founding members Brian Cook, Dave Knudson, Tim Latona and Dave Verellen took over the Showbox in Seattle, celebrating their legacy with what they called “A Weekend Of Dead Ends.”

A couple of weeks ago, Crowded House released their new album Gravity Stairs. The band brought “Teenage Summer” to late-night television earlier this month, and today they performed that track, “The Howl,” and their 1991 classic “Weather With You” on CBS’ Saturday Sessions.

Baltimore’s Praise specialize in a kind of heartfelt, sincere melodic hardcore, evoking the music that came out of Washington, DC in the ’80s and ’90s. They’re really good at it, too. Members of Praise have played in bands like Have Heart, Mindset, Champion, Give, and Protester, and their regular drummer i...

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If you grew up anywhere near Washington, DC in the ’90s or ’00s, then there’s a very good chance that you had formative experiences at the HTFstival, the big annual show put on by the local alt-rock station WHFS. At its peak, the HFStival, a mid-Atlantic version of the KROQ Weenie Roast, would sell out DC’...