As new strains of the deadly coronavirus circulate globally, it seems that the more positive pandemic of post-punk continually mutates, re-infecting us with new renditions of itself every few years. Post-punk emanated from punk, of course, first as a reaction… Read More
It’s been over ten years since heavy metal legend Ronnie James Dio died, but now an autobiography that the Dio/Rainbow/Black Sabbath/Elf frontman was working on before his death is scheduled to be released this July. Named after Dio’s classic 1983… Read More
Hardcore vets H2O have announced a full band streaming show, happening February 26 at 8 PM EST. The show, sponsored by canned water brand Liquid Death, was filmed in vocalist Toby Morse’s garage and is the first time the band have played… Read More
“They tell me slow down, bitch never me…” Dawn Richard has Danity Kome a long way as a solo star in her own right, proving time and time again through ambitious, genre-blurring independent audio-visual experiences – including the Goldenheart, Blackheart… Read More
Boundary-pushing R&B singer Dawn Richard recently signed to Merge and revealed that she'd be releasing a new album on the label this year, and now that album has been announced and the first single has been released. It's called Second… Read More
Manchester Orchestra just premiered A Black Mile To The Surface: The Global Concert Film, prefaced by a BrooklynVegan-hosted fan Q&A. (Thanks to everyone who tuned in!) The film saw the band performing their most recent album — 2017's A Black… Read More
This week in heavy music, we got the excellent new For Your Health album (read my review/interview), as well as albums from Swampbeast, Ad Nauseam, God Is An Astronaut, and more, plus tracks from Oryx, Enforced, Skeleton, Paysage D'Hiver, Conan,… Read More
“I did really feel like — is this a step too far?” laughs Benjamin John Power near the end of our Zoom call. Nestled among keyboards and synths in his home outside Edinburgh, the Blanck Mass composer feels as anyone… Read More
History is often not as judicious in granting sympathy to the album that follows a classic. As great as the Beatles’ “White Album” is, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is typically the starting off point for lists about the… Read More
I Comete: A Corsican Summer (2021) is the debut feature from actor and director Pascal Tagnati. With a feeling of life in a Corsican village passing by, the static camera observes the residents. The long takes and wide shots ask… Read More