Shackleton’s work is so diffuse and so challenging that finding an entry point can be like feeling out a foothold in a sheer granite wall. His last solo full-length, 2012’s Music for the Quiet Hour/The Drawbar Organ EPs, sprawled to… Read More
Interstellar indie rock vets Man Or Astro-Man? are back with a new 7″ EP featuring two great new songs: The poppy, danceable and new-wavey “Tenth Planet” and heavy, surfy instrumental “Space 1991.” (The EP also opens with a short atmospheric… Read More
The BrooklynVegan Show on Vans Channel 66 is now once a month, and the September edition happens this Thursday (9/23) at 11 AM ET. With summer ending and the year about three quarters done, we’re in the home stretch for… Read More
Portland, Maine indie rock trio Weakened Friends have announced a new album, Quitter, due out November 19 via Don Giovanni. It’s their second album, the follow-up to 2018’s Common Blah, and you can see the cover art and tracklist below.… Read More
Cocteau Twins guitarist Robin Guthrie will release a new EP, Mockingbird Love, on October 15 via his own Soleil Après Minuit label. It’s the first in a series of releases coming from Guthrie this year, and you can stream its… Read More
After going virtual in 2020 due to the pandemic, the Brooklyn Folk Festival returns as an in-person event this fall. It’s slightly scaled down this year, happening November 12 & 13 at St. Ann’s Church. As usual, it will feature… Read More
Metallica recently made their return to the stage after, according to them, 738 days, with a surprise, last minute, intimate show at the 500-capacity Independent in San Francisco. Tonight they’re doing another intimate show in another city, Chicago. The show… Read More
After kicking off on Saturday, the 2021 edition of Asbury Park’s Sea.Hear.Now Fest continued on Sunday (9/19). Smashing Pumpkins were the night’s headliners, and their setlist, which you can see below, was identical to the one they did at Riot… Read More
Swedish occult rockers Ghost have been working on their fifth album, and while most details on that are still TBA, they did just announce a big co-headlining 2022 arena tour with Volbeat, which includes support from Twin Temple. The tour… Read More
Devo may have begun in Akron, Ohio, 48 years ago, but the band still sounds like it’s channeling music from the future by way of planet Mars. It had been a lengthy absence from Chicago for the new wave pioneers,… Read More