Salem
When the trio of Midwest malcontents in SALEM released their first EPs over a decade ago, they, like many young people in America, were staring down a dead end. As the critic Larry Fitzmaurice pointed out last year in an… Read More
Author: Manny Sanchez
‘In Defense of the Genre’ October roundup (5 best songs of the month included)
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 five… Read More
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras (excerpt)
Excerpted from When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras by Claudrena N. Harold (footnotes omitted). Copyright 2020 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Used with permission of the University of Illinois Press.… Read More
Old School Politicking Gets Powerful Punk Backing on Dead End America's 'Crush the Machine'
A standard-issue modern music gripe, subject of a ton of clickbait articles, is, “why are there no protest songs anymore?” The answers vary, but the most crucial point is that political criticism laces an incredible amount of modern music. Anyone… Read More
Grateful Dead Bertha skeleton action figure coming, 1980 Halloween show streamingGrateful Dead Studio Albums Ranked Worst to Best
Super7 continues expanding their line of awesome, music-related, retro-design ReAction figures. We've seen lots of punk and metal figures from the company, as well as some hip hop, and for this upcoming release they're branching out into another genre, though… Read More
Tom Morello pays tribute to Eddie Van Halen, covers Hendrix, collabs with Slash on new EP
Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello is a guitar hero in his own right, and he's just released a new EP, Comandante, which honors some of his guitar heroes. He pays tribute to the late Eddie Van Halen with "Secretariat"… Read More
Deftones release Purity Ring remix of “Knife Prty” (listen)
As mentioned, Deftones will release their White Pony remix album Black Stallion on December 11 via Reprise. It features remixes by DJ Shadow, Phantogram, Robert Smith (The Cure), Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park), Squarepusher, Trevor Jackson, Clams Casino, Blanck Mass, Salva,… Read More
Freddie Gibbs releases new single “4 Thangs” (ft. Big Sean, prod. Hit-Boy)
Freddie Gibbs has already been having a great year with his excellent Alchemist-produced album Alfredo and standout guest verses on albums by Benny The Butcher, Conway The Machine, Westside Gunn, Boldy James, Machinedrum, and more, and now he dropped a… Read More
Ane Brun's 'After the Great Storm' Features Some of Her Best Songs
Seventeen years have passed since Ane Brun delivered her critically acclaimed debut album Spending Time with Morgan. On her latest outing, After the Great Storm, the Stockholm-based Norwegian artist still displays a singular knack for painting words that leap off… Read More
25 New Songs Out Today
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,… Read More