This week in heavy music, we got new albums from Carcass and Employed To Serve, as well as the latest from metal-adjacent post-rockers MONO, all three of which you can read about in Notable Releases. You can also head to… Read More
SummerStage runs into October this year, and this weekend they’re hosting two excellent, FREE shows at Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield. Saturday, September 18 features Brooklyn Afrobeat vets Antibalas, with support from Cochemea and DJ Tara, and on Sunday, September 19,… Read More
Between our daily coverage, our Notable Releases and Indie Basement columns, and our monthly punk and rap roundups, we post tons of new music all the time here on BrooklynVegan. In an effort to keep track of all the new… Read More
Fall may not officially start till Tuesday, but autumn feels off to the races judging by this week’s release calendar and today’s Indie Basement features reviews of seven new albums: Blunt Bangs, the new group from Black Kids’ Reggie Youngblood,… Read More
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds‘ sequel to their 2005 b-sides and rarities compilation, B-Sides and Rarities Part II, is due out on October 22 (pre-order on double vinyl), and they’ve shared a second track from it, “Earthlings.” The melancholy… Read More
The late, great Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry was a master of collaboration in addition to his dub skills behind the controls, working with everyone from Keith Richards to George Clinton to The Beastie Boys to Andrew WK. The Upsetter left us… Read More
Old Man Gloom released their first albums since their bassist Caleb Scofield passed away (and first with Stephen Brodsky), Seminar VIII: Light of Meaning and Seminar IX: Darkness of Being, last year, but didn’t get to tour supporting them due… Read More
Between our daily coverage, our Notable Releases and Indie Basement columns, and our monthly punk and rap roundups, we post tons of new music all the time here on BrooklynVegan. In an effort to keep track of all the new… Read More
It was a short week due to Labor Day, but not a less busy one, so let’s just get straight to the music. I highlight eight new albums below, Bill tackles Saint Etienne, Amyl & the Sniffers, The Bevis Frond,… Read More
NJ’s self-proclaimed “bitch rockers” Little Hag will release their new album Leash on September 24 via Bar/None (pre-order), an album vocalist/guitarist Avery Mandeville describes as “a sarcastic but seriously cynical pop rock soundtrack for the dropouts and the disappointments; for… Read More