UK band ME REX released one of the year’s most unique indie rock albums with Megabear, and now they’re already set to follow it with a new EP, Pterodactyl, on February 4 via Big Scary Monsters. The first single is… Read More
Anaïs Mitchell has announced her first proper solo album in a decade (2014’s Xoa was an album of re-recorded older material), which is self-titled and due January 28 via BMG (pre-order). It was produced by her Bonny Light Horseman bandmate… Read More
With their 2019 album Pretty Buff, Angel Du$t branched out from their hardcore roots (members also play in Trapped Under Ice and Turnstile) and dove headfirst into jangle pop territory. It was an appealing, well-executed 180, but it wasn’t a… Read More
TONIGHT IN NYC: Lucy Dacus, Bartees Strange @ Brooklyn Steel Elvis Costello & The Imposters @ Capitol Theatre The Mountain Goats, Sophia Boro @ Brooklyn Made AJJ, Gladie, Shellshag @ Le Poisson Rouge Someone ft. Meshell Ndegeocello & Chris Bruce,… Read More
JPEGMAFIA has released his new album, LP!. Entirely written, produced, mixed, and mastered by JPEGMAFIA himself, it’s a trek through the unique, experimental, genre-defying rap music that Peggy has been making since day one. If you liked his last few… Read More
This just might be the most amount of albums BV has ever reviewed in one week. I highlight 10 below, Bill tackles 13 in Bill’s Indie Basement (Parquet Courts, Jarvis Cocker’s French pop covers album, Helado Negro, Deerhoof, Guided by… Read More
Brian Wilson has just a couple of dates left on his Greatest Hits Tour, which has him out with fellow Beach Boys and regular live collaborators Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin. Earlier this month (10/6) they stopped at Port Chester’s… Read More
Midwest poppy punks The Copyrights‘ first album in seven years, Alone In A Dome, comes out this Friday (10/22) via Fat Wreck Chords (pre-order), and ahead of the release, we’re premiering the video for new single “Part of the Landscape.”… Read More
NJ metalcore pioneers Deaguy recently reunited for the first time in nearly 25 years at Decibel Metal & Beer Fest in Philly and the band’s new documentary Deadguy: Killing Music premiered in Philly the night before their set. Now, more… Read More
World Mental Health Day was last week on October 10, and Sound Mind Live is marking the occasion with a NYC benefit concert, “Un-Heard Mentality,” in partnership with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) and Relix Magazine. It happens… Read More