Hot 97 couldn’t hold their annual Summer Jam concert in 2020 because of COVID, but they’ve now announced that they’ll be back this year. Summer Jam 2021 happens on Sunday, August 22 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, and… Read More
Genre-defying Detroit punks The Armed recently released their excellent new album ULTRAPOP on Sargent House (read our review), and they’ve now announced three U.S. release shows shows for 2022: a hometown date on January 8 at El Club (tickets), a… Read More
José González‘s anticipated first album in six years, Local Valley, is due out September 17 via Mute, and in addition to his tour with Rufus Wainwright supporting it, he also has a couple of special livestream events coming up. The… Read More
After cancelling their 2020 edition due to COVID, Atlanta, GA festival Shaky Knees has announced its return this year. It’ll move to the fall, on October 22-24 in Central Park, instead of its typical May dates, and one of the… Read More
Danny Elfman‘s first solo album in nearly four decades, Big Mess, is out on June 11, and among the new songs is a reworked version of Oingo Boingo’s “Insects” (from their 1982 album Nothing to Fear). This new version has a… Read More
OSEES are usually on the road more than they’re not, and after a year and change with no live music — during which time the band released three great albums — there was surely a lot of pent up energy.… Read More
audiobooks, the duo of Evangeline Ling and producer/mixer David Wrench, made one of the best, brilliantly bonkers albums of 2018 with their debut, Now! (in a minute). Three years later, they’re finally back with Astro Tough, which will be out… Read More
Megadeth have officially parted ways with bassist David Ellefson following allegations that he was grooming an underage girl online. In a message on Facebook, Dave Mustaine writes: We are informing our fans that David Ellefson is no longer playing with… Read More
In Defense of the Genre is a column on BrooklynVegan about punk and its many offshoots, including and often especially the bands and albums and subgenres that weren’t always taken so seriously. This list looks at some of the genre’s… Read More
Young punk band The Linda Lindas had been on the rise ever since being hand-picked by Bikini Kill to open one of their reunion shows in 2019. They also played shows with Alice Bag (and members appeared on Alice’s album… Read More