Drop Dead Festival signals next wave of post-punk deathrock:

Din Glorious, the young New York band who open and close the weekend-long Drop Dead Festival, tend to “get lumped together with punk or goth bands,” according to the group’s percussionist, Johnny Landmine. He accurately compares his group’s “post-punk tribal” wall of sound to such industrial music vets as Einstürzende Neubauten and Test Dept. But Landmine quickly adds that such categorization is “not a bad thing” but rather, an indictor of a burgeoning next-wave of the darker post, post-punk acts that include such different styles as industrial, deathrock and goth. 

Russian-born Polina Y started the Drop Dead Festival in 2002 after she booked 11 bands one night at CBGBs. Since then, it’s grown steadily, and this year’s festival will include a total of 50 bands and 40 DJs. “In Europe there are so many festivals catering to all this powerful music,” she said, grouping “goth, deathrock, post-punk, horror-punk, batcave, gothabilly and psychobilly” among the styles that come under the Drop Dead umbrella. 

To get a taste of the festival just read aloud this lineup: Cult of the Psychic Fetus, Lene Lovich, Cinema Strange, Ausgang, The Quakes, Monster A Go-Go, Black Cat Rebellion, Blitzkid, Wrecking Dead, the Dedadneks, Sasquatch & Sickabillys, Psychocharger and Din Glorious. And to really get the feeling of the dark side of the Drop Dead movement, Sunday includes a DIY “anti-fashion” show with “no models, no designers, no bullshit.” 

September 1-3. Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard St. (betw. B’way & Church Sts.), 212-219-3132; Fri. 7 p.m.-4 a.m., Sat.-Sun. 6 p.m.-4 a.m., $63 for weekend/ $25 per day. www.dropdeadfestival.com.

Three behind the Japanese New Music Festival:

The members of the group Akaten describe themselves as an “experimental convenience store punk band that provides the sound images of cheap and simple daily lives.” The duo, which will perform at the Japanese New Music Festival in Manhattan and Brooklyn, accurately lives up to this description with its choice of percussion instrumentation: scissors, toothbrush, zipper, camera and a plastic bottle. Frantically banged and manipulated, they provide the ideal backdrop to the wild group’s repeated shouting of brand names—the makers of each of the individual household objects they are drumming with. The traveling Japanese New Music Festival is in actuality a one-night-at-one-club affair with seven bands, all made up by just three eclectic and energetic Japanese musicians: Yoshida Tatsuya from The Ruins, and Tsuyama Atsushi and Kawabata Makoto from AMT. These three perform various roles in seven radically diverse and often hilarious “units” that include the “eccentric poly-rhythmic a cappella ensemble” of the trio Zubi Zuva X and the “extreme trip psychedelic” Acid Mothers Temple along with Zoffy, Shrink Wark, Seikazoku and Ruins Alone (Yoshida).

September 2. Northsix, 66 N. 6th St. (betw. Kent & Wythe Aves.), Brooklyn, 718-599-5103; 8, $15. September 3. Tonic, 107 Norfolk St. (betw. Essex and Suffolk Sts.), 212-358-7501; 8, $15.

Temporary Residence Limited turns 10:

This weekend, Temporary Residence Limited celebrates what only the most innovative and perseverant independent record labels can: a decade of existence. TRL’s impressive roster of experimental rock bands—and especially its instrumental groups—have won a loyal following among fans of post-rock. Since Jeremy deVine, the label’s founder, relocated to Brooklyn from Portland, Ore., in 2004, TRL has been riding high since the move coincided with a dramatic upswing in success for Explosions in the Sky, the label’s crown jewel. For its “Big Baby Birthday Bash,” TRL plans to fill The Bowery Ballroom with orchestrated noise, droning soundscapes and electro explorations from 12 of the label’s big draws as well as newcomers over three nights. Friday brings one of TRL’s most recent additions, Envy, a Japanese post-hardcore quintet, as well as IDM shape-shifter, Cex. Austin’s Explosions in the Sky, whose blistering live performances put TRL on the lips of every post-rock devotee, headline Saturday, and earlier in the evening, Caroline, an electro-pop songstress from L.A. by way of Japan, will play her New York debut. Japanese noise-rockers Mono close the festival Sunday, along with Fridge—a project Kieran Hebden started pre-Four Tet—who give their first performance since 2002. 

September 1-3. Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey St. (betw. Bowery & Chrystie Sts.), 212-533-2111; 8, $16 per night.