Dead & Company — featuring Grateful Dead‘s Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann along with John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti — held their annual Mexico concert vacation, Playing in the Sand, in January of 2020 before COVID… 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 best… Read More
The 2020 edition of New Colossus Festival, which happens right before SXSW and features a lot of international bands on their way to Austin, was one of the last festivals to happen in the United States, wrapping up just days… Read More
Tame Impala are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their 2011 album InnerSpeaker this year. They released a box set version of the album last week, and now they’ve announced they’ll be playing it in full at a global streaming event… Read More
Some band names just totally capture what the band is going to sound like, and Odd Circus is one of them. The Orlando-based avant-rock trio is made up of a guitarist/bassist/drummer, a bassist/drummer, and a saxophonist, and — in their… 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
Beak>, the trio of Geoff Barrow (Portishead), Billy Fuller (Robert Plant’s Sensational Space Shifters) and Will Young (Moon Gangs), recently shared a new song, “Oh Know,” as part of Mexico City festival NRMAL’s monthly YouTube show. It’s their first new… Read More
As mentioned, Massachusetts punks Oh The Humanity! are releasing a self-titled album on April 16 via Hellminded Records (pre-order). They recently released the singles “Wit’s End” and the Fest-inspired “Everyone in Gainesville (Looks Like Someone I Know),” which are both… Read More
Following last year’s terrific self-titled debut album, UK group Working Men’s Club are back with a new single. “X” finds the band laying off the synthesizers just a little to deliver a taut, nervy ripper that you can still dance… Read More
The BrooklynVegan Show on Vans.com/Channel66 returns this Thursday (4/1) from 11 AM to 1 PM ET and this week’s guest is Mikey Erg and his band, who will be performing a 25-minute live set and coming on the show to… Read More