It’s another hugely stacked week for new music. I highlight ten new records below, and here are a bunch of honorable mentions: Weezer, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Tee Grizzley, Undo K From Hot (Zach Hill), Sophia Kennedy, L’Orange & Namir… Read More
While NYC is on the verge of reopening from COVID lockdown, restrictions on live music remain. With hosting shows at full capacity still not on the immediate horizon, Brooklyn’s Market Hotel has announced that in the meantime it’ll be opening… Read More
The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains made its splashy premiere in 2017 at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and is now finally coming to America. It will make its Stateside debut at Los Angeles’ Vogue Multicultural Museum, running August… Read More
“A couple of years ago I began making music with the wonderful Amy Douglass,” Hot Chip‘s Joe Goddard says of Hard Feelings, his newly announced duo with NYC singer-songwriter and Róisín Murphy collaborator Amy Douglas. “I had heard her song ‘Never Saw It… Read More
UK band Bossk have announced their sophomore album, Migration, due June 18 via Deathwish (pre-order). The Martin Ruffin-recorded album features guest vocals by Cult of Luna’s Johannes Persson and Palm Reader’s Josh McKeown and guest instrumentation/noise by members of Endon,… Read More
After sitting out 2020 due to the pandemic, NYC’s Governors Ball will return this year but in a little different form. Unlike previous years, where it happened in early June at Randall’s Island, this year it will be in the… Read More
In addition to fronting Self Defense Family, Drug Church, and other bands, Patrick Kindlon co-hosts the Axe To Grind podcast and he’s also co-authored some graphic novels, including We Can Never Go Home and Nobody Is In Control. He has… Read More
In Defense of the Genre is a column on BrooklynVegan about punk, pop punk, emo, post-hardcore, ska-punk, and more, including and often especially the bands and albums and subgenres that weren’t always taken so seriously. Here are The Genre’s best… Read More
After not receiving a single nomination at the 2021 Grammys, The Weeknd announced that he would be boycotting the awards and not submitting his music going forward, citing the “corrupt” “secret committees” that have long been used to narrow down potential nominees. The… Read More
Fresh off releasing their new album Fortitude, Gojira have announced a headlining US tour with support from Knocked Loose and Alien Weaponry, which takes place after their previously announced run opening for Deftones. The headlining tour begins right after Gojira’s… Read More