Everything about this story is right up my street. Meet Aleyna Tilki: she’s a 20-year-old Turkish singer-songwriter. Aleyna first rose to fame in 2014 as a semi-finalist on Season 6 of Yetenek Sizsiniz Türkiye – or Turkey’s Got Talent (!),… Read More
Back in December, Live Nation president Joe Berchtold said that he expected major concerts to return by summer of 2021. While Dr. Fauci has since predicted that fall might be a more accurate timeline for live music’s return, Live Nation… Read More
In addition to gearing up for a collaborative album with The Body, Montreal post-metal greats BIG | BRAVE have just announced their own new album, VITAL, due April 23 via Southern Lord (with vinyl coming out July 9). A press… Read More
Behemoth frontman Adam “Nergal” Darski has launched a GoFundMe, “Ordo Blasfemia”, after being convicted of “offending religious feelings” in his native Poland for posting a picture of himself standing on a painting of the Virgin Mary. Conservative legal group Ordo… Read More
Streaming service CBS All Access is being rebranded as Paramount+ in March, and will include programming from all the networks under the ViacomCBS umbrella, including MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1, BET, Comedy Central, and your grandma’s favorite, CBS. You may have seen the Super… Read More
San Jose mathcore maniacs Heavy Heavy Low Low were supposed to reunite in 2020 until the pandemic got in the way (they did release two and a half hours of old tour footage on New Year’s Eve though), and while… Read More
Pre-order The Living’s ‘1982’ on limited translucent ruby vinyl in the BrooklynVegan shop. Before he joined Guns N’ Roses, bassist Duff McKagan carved out territory in Seattle’s pre-grunge punk scene, having played in The Fastbacks and The Fartz. He also played… Read More
Like Dropkick Murphys (who announced a new album today), Flogging Molly will perform a livestreamed concert on St. Patrick’s Day (3/17). Theirs goes down at 3 PM ET, so you can watch both (Dropkick’s is at 7 PM ET), and… Read More
Reggae and pioneer U-Roy has died, according to Jamaican media sources. He was 78. Born Ewart Beckford in 1942, U-Roy (also known as Daddy U-Roy) was one of the first “toasters,” Jamaican DJs who chanted along with the records they… Read More
Sigur Rós’ Odin’s Raven Magic came into existence in starts and stops like a bird that couldn’t get off the ground. The record, a live orchestral composition originally imagined by Sigur Rós, first saw the light of day nearly two… Read More