The devastating loss of John Prine to coronavirus complications back in April continues to haunt us. He was 73 when he passed away, a year younger than President Donald Trump, who has been downplaying the severity of the virus after… Read More
In 1962, an American ad man named Martin Speckter proposed a new punctuation mark. The sublimely named “interrobang” combined question and exclamation into a single expression of quizzical incredulity: “What are those‽‽‽” This space-age innovation sadly didn’t catch on, but… Read More
John Lennon’s short life can be roughly divided into two periods: his first 31 years in England and the remaining nine years since moving to New York City, as a born-again American. Although the latter period was significantly shorter, it… Read More
UK rapper Headie One already released one of the year's best rap albums with April's Fred Again-produced GANG, and now he's set to release a second album of 2020, Edna, on Friday (10/9) via Relentless Records (pre-order). It features his… Read More
We were recently looking back at 7Seconds' 1984 classic The Crew and were bummed to realize it's not on streaming services, so it's good news that that's one of three classic BYO Records albums set to be reissued and added… 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, track premieres, and more all day. In… Read More
It's another Bandcamp Friday which means more Sonic Youth releases from their very extensive archives. This time it's Volume 3 of the Sonic Youth Rarities series, featuring hard-to-find studio recordings, most of which are instrumental. Steve Shelley writes that "This collection… Read More
Run the Jewels were set to perform their excellent 2020 album RTJ4 in full for the first time on Saturday, October 10 for an Adult Swim virtual concert, "Holy Calamavote," to encourage voter turnout. Because of a "health scare" among… Read More
In Defense of the Genre is a column on BrooklynVegan about punk, pop punk, emo, post-hardcore, ska-punk, and more, including and often especially the bands and albums and subgenres that weren’t always taken so seriously. Here are The Genre’s five… Read More
Jim White’s latest LP, Misfit’s Jubilee, arrives on 30 October via Fluff & Gravy Records and features many of White’s hallmarks. Meditations on the American South, touches of heartbreak and laughter, and novelistic portraits carried out in the narrow spaces… Read More