Roc Marciano & The Alchemist are fresh off releasing their excellent new album The Elephant Man's Bones, and they've also announced at least two shows together. They've got a set at BCW's Xperience Boston Arts & Music Festival on September… Read More
The 1975 have shared "I'm In Love With You," the third single off their upcoming fifth album being funny in a foreign language, and this one finds them exploring their sugar-sweet jangle pop side. It also comes with a Samuel… Read More
Nordic dark folk band Heilung just released their third album, Drif, and began their North American tour supporting it. Last time they were in NYC, they blew us away. They'll stop in NYC again to bring their primal live "ritual"… 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. August is a wrap, and… Read More
Singer Julian Casablancas sounded great as he rock ‘n’ roll crooned songs such as “Meet Me In The Bathroom” and “Bad Decisions,” the latter of which featured terrific guitars from Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr. Casablancas was also his… Read More
Roger Waters brought his spectacular This is Not a Drill tour to NYC on Tuesday night (8/30) for the first of two shows at Madison Square Garden. With a stage show involving massive LED screens, lasers and flying farm animals,… 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 post music news, track premieres, and… Read More
Pasadena, CA festival This Ain't No Picnic (whose name is a callback to the original 1999 and 2000 fests) kicked off its 2022 edition on Saturday (8/27) at Brookside by the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. We already posted about LCD… Read More
Angel Du$t and One Step Closer are about to be on tour opening for Movements (alongside Snarls), and that tour hits Brooklyn on September 9 at Music Hall of Williamsburg. But now, Angel Du$t and OSC have added their own… Read More
The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die have a new live album and tour documentary on the way, both titled Thank You For Being Here, and both out October 7 via Epitaph (pre-order).… Read More