PRECIOUS METAL

"You can add Curran Reynolds' Precious Metal to the spectrum of NYC Monday institutions like Reverend Vince's residency at Black Betty or Les Paul's at The Iridium. Reynolds, the drummer for Wetnurse, is ideally suited for hosting what is quickly becoming regarded as New York's premier metal party. And it's about time. Think not of all the Motley Crue you've had to endure in Lit's basement over the years, but instead, the dark, the noisy, the atonal, and, of course, the loud and heavy."
-Jonathan Toubin

"Best Metal Party... Precious Metal is a new night of heavy, featuring DJs and national touring bands, hosted by Curran Reynolds, party curator and drummer for local band Wetnurse. Through his band and various record label connections, Curran has sunk his fangs deep into the jugular of today's hessian underground. The party caters to the alloyed jams du jour -- mostly of the extreme-metal variety: the brutally screamed, shrieked, and chugged sounds associated with micro-genres such as the New Wave of American metal, death, black, thrash, metalcore, and noise."
-The Village Voice, 2006 Best Of NYC Issue

"Precious Metal is a headbanger band-and-DJ night curated by Wetnurse drummer Curran Reynolds. It's rich in the best of today's touring underground bands, and has DJs spinning the best in extreme metal."
-The Village Voice

"Lit on Monday nights... the party's called Precious Metal and the music is all metal, all the time."
-Paper Magazine

"Every week, Reynolds hosts a combination DJ jam and mini-concert featuring the best in contemporary extreme metal. If you happen to be in New York, check it out..."
-The AV Club

"The city's most open-minded metal night" "
-Time Out New York

"Precious Metal, where the heavy underground can literally be found underground... in the basement of Lit Lounge."
-Brooklyn Vegan

"You may know Reynolds as the drummer from NYC noiseniks Wetnurse but he's a man who wears many hats and we're here today to give him his propers for booking the Precious Metal series at Lit Lounge."
-Decibel Magazine

"Curran Reynolds' Precious Metal weekly is Manhattan's epicenter of underground metal."
-Invisible Oranges

"The Monday night metal parties at Lit Lounge were some of the year's coolest shows literally taking place in the NYC underground. The room rules, the bands were killer, and what was supposed to be a summer fling kept rolling through the fall. Precious Metal forever."
-The Aquarian