This week: “punk professor,” reggae expert and all-around cool person Vivien Goldman releases her first-ever solo album; A Certain Ratio wrap up their three EP series; Chorusing delivers hushed-and-haunted synth folk; Stephen Duffy unearths an album’s worth of song by his… Read More
The 2021 edition of Las Vegas festival Life is Beautiful happens on September 17-19 in Downtown Las Vegas, and like many other festivals, venues, and artists have been doing lately, they’ve announced that they’ll require ticketholders to present proof of… Read More
After playing Lollapalooza and a few other shows, Limp Bizkit cancelled the remainder of their August tour “out of an abundance of caution and concern for the safety of the band, crew and most of all the fans.” Frontman Fred… Read More
Veteran Chicago footwork producer Jana Rush says that Painful Enlightenment, only her second album since she debuted in 1995, isn’t a footwork record. She might be right: Painful Enlightenment’s abstract passages, tortured rhythms, and sprawling webs of sound have little… Read More
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
The BrooklynVegan Show on Vans Channel 66 returns this Thursday (8/12) at 11 AM ET, and this week we’ll be doing a deep dive into the career of one of New York’s most important bands: Sonic Youth. Joining us for… Read More
Sam Evian has announced a new album, Time to Melt, which will be out October 29 via Fat Possum. The album was made at Sam’s new Flying Cloud Recordings studio in the Catskills, and inspired by records that mixed the… Read More
Bay Area post-hardcore band Down Again will follow their 2020 debut album The Devil is a Gentlemen with a new EP, Bury The Bones, on September 3 via self-release. The first single is “Predisposed,” which picks up right where The… Read More
Ska is one of the longest-running styles of popular music, and it has a rich history, one that spans over half a century, six continents, and countless examples of cultural exchange. It was born in Jamaica in the 1950s as… Read More
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival was supposed to return for two weekends in October 2021, after the 2020 edition had been postponed, and now they’ve announced that the festival will not occur in 2021 due to “the current exponential… Read More