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[ROCK] Bring that insufferable hangover to Mohawk Place on New Year’s Day where the music will blast you back into shape for another humdinger. Beginning at 5pm, just around the same time that the aspirin should start working, the hair of the dog will flow (do NOT say it was me that suggested drinking after taking aspirin). However you manage to get to point B, the edge will need to be sanded down in order to handle this post-hardcore lineup. Kings and Kingdoms guitarist Joey Galligan is up first—unclear if it’ll be a solo acoustic set or what, but the scorching death metal of Inertia will definitely clear out any remaining cobwebs in your holiday-marinated brain. Andrea Elle’s vocals soften Mallorie’s assaultive crunch ever so slightly (in all the best ways), but the remaining bands all deliver a crushing, growling wallop, straddling the blurred lines between the fringes of metal and hardcore’s evil spawned: locals Contempt Creates a Killer, Rochester’s Vanity Strikes, Houston’s Whether, I, and headlining from Florida, I set My Friends on Fire. Make sure you’re good and limbered up for the last two bands—unrelenting heat makes for deliciously angry music. It can all be yours for $10 in advance, $15 at the door.