“Call me a telepath…” Conan Gray is kind of psychic. It’s like he has ESPN or something. After dropping his Top 5-charting debut album Kid Krow last year, including “Maniac” and the TikTok-trending “Heather,” his most commercially successful hit yet,… Read More
Friday night’s headliners truly showed how diverse hip-hop is at the moment. On one stage, Playboi Carti shook the ground (quite literally) with mosh-pit anthems from his new album Whole Lotta Red. Several hundred feet away, J. Cole brought his… Read More
Swedish-Persian R&B singer Snoh Aalegra released her third LP, the Tyler, the Creator-featuring Temporary Highs in the Violet Skies, in July via ARTium and Roc Nation. She’s now announced a North American tour supporting it. She’ll hit the road in… Read More
Curtis Harding‘s new album If Words Were Flowers is out Friday, and here’s one final early taste before the whole thing drops. Sprinkled with spacey synths, “Explore” is a groovy psychedelic soul love song, and you can listen below. You… Read More
Earlier this year, Jarvis Cocker‘s current band, JARV IS…, released a dub mix of “Swanky Modes” by reggae great Dennis Bovell as a single. That is now part of a new remix album that also features Hot Chip, David Holmes… 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
Happy Halloween Weekend! I forgot to figure out a costume once again as I’ve been busy listening to records. This week I review new platters from Billy Bragg, Brooklyn buzz band Geese, Sam Evian and The Pop Group‘s dub version… Read More
“It can’t be just me who’s running on empty / It can’t be just me who feels this way…” Aly & AJ want to know: you alright, babes? And to that I say: good question! In this wildly weird year… Read More
The Armed keyboardist Clark Huge (real name Clark Plaunt) has fallen ill with what doctors suspect may be carcinoid lung cancer, and he may have to have part of his left lung removed. As The PRP points out, his friend… Read More
Yves Tumor followed their excellent 2020 album Heaven to a Tortured Mind with a surprise new EP, The Asymptotical World, in July (order on vinyl), and they’ve been on tour supporting both throughout the fall. That tour stopped in NYC… Read More