The Fourth of July is coming up soon, and the biggest event of the day in NYC is the annual Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks spectacular. This year's fireworks will be launched from five barges along the East River in Manhattan… Read More
The free, all-ages, DIY punk fest Punk Island, which happens on July 23 in its new Bushwick location of Maria Hernandez Park, has announced its full 2022 lineup. Here it is, in alphabetical order: Baby B and the Back Up… Read More
Today Half Waif (aka Nandi Rose Plunkett) surprise-released an EP, Portraits, comprised of four reworked songs from her albums Mythopoetics and The Caretaker. The EP finds Nandi singing and playing piano solo, making for a totally stripped-down and highly soulful… Read More
So many artists, so many songs, 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… Read More
Pusha T has announced more dates for his It's Almost Dry tour. Phase 2 kicks on September 3 in Philadelphia at the Made in America festival, and includes stops in Vegas, Cleveland, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, NYC (Rolling Loud on September 25), Milwaukee,… Read More
Ondara (fka J.S. Ondara) has announced his third album, Spanish Villager No: 3, due September 16 via Verve Forecast (pre-order). The album was produced by Ondara and past collaborator Mike Viola (Jenny Lewis, Andrew Bird, etc) with contributions from Taylor… Read More
Sonic Youth have launched an official Reverb shop, and they're selling analog tape that they stocked up in the early 2000s when digital recording began taking over. A press release clarifies that these tapes do not contain any Sonic Youth… Read More
Roger Waters' "This is Not a Drill" tour will finally get underway, after a number of pandemic postponements, on July 6 in Pittsburgh. To promote it, he and his band stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday… Read More
Producer Kenny Beats is returning to SummerStage in Central Park on September 16 for another D.O.T.S. (Don't Overthink Shit) Party with a lineup of special guests (still TBA) to join him. You can get tickets early with the BrooklynVegan presale that runs… Read More
Ska-punk vets Streetlight Manifesto recently announced the extensive "Calm Before the Chaos Tour," and now they've added support on several dates from one of the best bands of ska's newer generation, Catbite. That includes the show at NYC's Terminal 5… Read More