Khruangbin and Vieux Farka Touré recently announced a new collaborative album and both played together in Prospect Park on Thursday evening as part of the 2022 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival. For those hoping they would preview the album, they did,… 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… Read More
Between our daily coverage, our Notable Releases and Indie Basement columns, and our monthly punk and rap roundups, we post tons of new music all the time here on BrooklynVegan. In an effort to keep track of all the new… Read More
Phoebe Bridgers played a secret show on Thursday night (8/4) at a place in Sonoma County, CA called Little Saint. The venue teased a free show from a "super secret special guest" with a poster featuring a skull and tombstones,… Read More
Benny the Butcher's Black Soprano Family have announced a new project, Long Live DJ Shay, due September 9 (pre-order). In addition to Benny and his BSF group/labelmates Rick Hyde and Heem, it also features Benny's Griselda labelmates Westside Gunn, Conway… Read More
Spike Lee pretty regularly throws block parties on the block his 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks HQ is located on in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and this Saturday (8/6) he's having a stoop sale. Will he be selling that electric mixer… Read More
Carly Rae Jepsen announced her new album, The Loneliest Time, earlier this week, and now she's shared another new single from it, "Beach House." Alex Hope produced the summery anthem, which was co-written by Jepsen, Hope, and Nate Cyphert, and… Read More
Earlier this year, Mike Kinsella and his cousin/American Football bandmate Nate Kinsella launched their new band Lies with two new songs, and now they've released a third, "Summer Somewhere." It's a pulsating, synthy art pop song, and Mike Kinsella's unmistakable… Read More
Denver crust/deathgrinders Vermin Womb (who are fronted by Primitive Man's Ethan McCarthy and also feature members of Ethan's former band Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire) have announced their sophomore album, Retaliation, following 2016's Decline. It was recorded… Read More
yeule released their great new album, Glitch Princess, back in February, and they just wrapped up a short US tour supporting it, which included a set at Pitchfork Festival and a pair of NYC shows at Bowery Ballroom and National… Read More