Author: Karma Oak

Thursday‘s sophomore album Full Collapse turns 20 today, and as we said in our 20th anniversary review, it’s not just the band’s breakthrough but one of the most pivotal albums in the emo and post-hardcore explosion of the early 2000s.… Read More

This week in hip hop, we got the anticipated new Brockhampton album (featuring Danny Brown, A$AP Rocky & Ferg, JPEGMAFIA, and more), and you can read my review of that in Notable Releases. We also got a posthumous Chynna single… Read More

Between our daily coverage, our Notable Releases and Indie Basement columns, and our monthly punk and rap roundups, we post tons of new music all the time here on BrooklynVegan. In an effort to keep track of all the new… Read More

Ska-punk may have faded in popularity after the third wave died down in the early/mid 2000s, but as anyone who follows the genre knows, the idea that it ever “died” is a total myth. It may have taken a little… Read More

So many artists, so little time. Each week we review a handful of new albums (of all genres), round up even more new music that we’d call “indie,” and talk about what metal is coming out. We post music news, track premieres, and more all day. In… Read More

After promising he had “new holistic music coming this week,” Sufjan Stevens has announced a new five-volume ambient album, Convocations. He performed, recorded, mixed, and produced the album’s 49 tracks (spanning two and a half hours) himself, and it follows… Read More

“Kings of Quarantine” is a streaming covers series put together by Kevin Jardine and Jason Rockman of Slaves on Dope, and they’ve just shared an all-star version of Public Enemy‘s classic Slayer-sampling “She Watch Channel Zero” from 1988’s It Takes A Nation… Read More

Two Minutes to Late Night‘s new web series Splitsville, where two artists cover each other’s songs. launched back in January with Every Time I Die and Cave In and both of those two covers have now been made available as standalone videos.… Read More

Pavement were set to reunite for the 2020 edition of Primavera Sound in Barcelona and Porto, which were going to be their only shows that year. Due to the pandemic, Primavera got postponed August 2020, then to June 2021, which then… Read More