This is an extremely stacked week for new music. I highlight 11 new albums below, Bill tackles 10 in Bill's Indie Basement (including Kelly Lee Owens, Röyksopp, Melody's Echo Chamber, Dany Placard & Julie Doiron, Honeyglaze, Scalping, Shilpa Ray, Astrel… Read More
Live Nation has announced the return of their "Concert Week" promotion, where they're selling $25 "all-in" tickets (aka taxes and fees included) to over 3700 shows happening across North America. The promotion begins on Wednesday, May 4 at 10 AM… Read More
This Friday (4/29), N8NOFACE releases his new album Homicide via Blackhouse Records (pre-order), and we're premiering a full stream of it in this post. It's his fifth album in as many years, and like his past work, it finds him… Read More
Squint is a new St. Louis band fronted by Soul Craft's Brennen Wilkinson that also features current and former members of Time and Pressure, New Lives, and Choir Vandals, and they cite pioneering melodic hardcore bands like Turning Point and… Read More
Tickets for the Lizzo show at Madison Square Garden with Latto are on BrooklynVegan presale today from 10 AM – 10 PM. Use password SPECIALBV If you miss out on our presale, tickets for Lizzo's whole tour go on sale to… Read More
TONIGHT IN NYC: Jawbreaker, The Linda Lindas, Worriers, Chris Gethard @ Irving Plaza Arch Enemy, Behemoth, Napalm Death, Unto Others @ Terminal 5 Girl Talk, Hugh Augustine @ Brooklyn Steel Burna Boy @ Madison Square Garden Big K.R.I.T, Elhae @… 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
Big Thief are in the midst of their North American tour supporting their excellent new double album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, and on Monday night (4/25) they stopped in Chicago for a show at Riviera Theatre.… Read More
Brooklyn emo band Stay Inside, who released one of our favorite albums of 2020 with Viewing and who we more recently called one of 25 newer bands every 2000s emo fan needs to know, have just released their first new… Read More
Jason Pierce has been making the same album for over three decades. This is not a criticism. He found his calling — mixing blues, gospell, and Velvet Underground-style psychedelia into orchestral grandeur — while still in Spacemen 3 and has been spinning… Read More