Neko Case will celebrate her two-decade-plus long career with a digital-only career retrospective album, Wild Creatures, which features 22 songs from throughout Neko's career and the new song "Oh, Shadowless." The album comes out this Friday (4/22) via ANTI-, and…
Here's a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more. JAPANESE BREAKFAST (NEW DATES WITH LINDA LINDAS, BARRIE, CATE LE BON, MORE) Japanese Breakfast, who just played Coachella Weekend 1, has expanded her North American tour with new…
Rodrigo, backed by a terrific four piece band, sat down at the piano Friday to deliver her breakout debut single “drivers license.” “I wrote this song about driving through the suburbs crying…” said the singer, outlining the origins of the…
Ministry are currently on tour celebrating the belated 30th anniversary of their classic 1989 album The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste. The tour, originally set for 2020, was a reunion of the "Industrial Strength" tour with KMFDM and Front…
Hurray for the Riff Raff are on tour now with Anjimile in support of their great new album Life On Earth, and that tour hit band leader Alynda Segarra's former hometown of NYC for a show at Brooklyn's Elsewhere on…
Lizzo pulled double duty on Saturday Night Live last night as both host and musical guest. "Ladies and gentlemen…me!" she said, introducing herself before performing her fun new single "About Damn Time." Having just announced her new album Special just…
Dinosaur Jr are playing a rare show in their hometown of Amherst, MA to celebrate the opening of new venue The Drake on April 27. It's a small room, about 250 capacity, and they're holding a lottery for tickets —…
Perennial recently released their new album In The Midnight Hour, which we said in our review will bring you right back to early 2000s dance-punk with such influences as Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Blood Brothers, The Rapture, Nick Cave, The…
Ride have announced details of their upcoming reissues of their early catalog. On November 4, Wichita Records will release vinyl and CD reissues of 1990's Nowhere and 1992's Going Blank Again. Also out that day, and perhaps most exciting of…
Coachella kicks off weekend one of its 2022 edition, its first edition since 2019, on Friday (4/15), and the set times have finally arrived. As teased, they include Arcade Fire, a last minute addition to the lineup, playing a Mojave…
The Dream Syndicate will be heading out on tour this year to celebrate their 40th anniversary, and for the occasion they'll be playing their classic 1982 debut album, The Days of Wine and Roses, front-to-back at every show, along with…
The world of country music is vast and extremely popular, and yet so much of it tends to go unnoticed in indie/alternative rock circles. Occasionally artists cross over — like Jason Isbell, Kacey Musgraves, Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson, Margo Price,…
Questlove's award-winning Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) documentary brought renewed interest to 1969's Harlem Cultural Festival, which was held in Mount Morris Park (now known as Marcus Garvey Park) and dubbed the "Black Woodstock,"…
Last summer, Lou Barlow and John Davis announced they were working on their first new Folk Implosion music together since 2000. (Barlow released The New Folk Implosion album in 2003 which didn't feature Davis.) Today, The Folk Implosion released the…
Hop Along have announced a summer tour that has them out on the East Coast in the second half of July. The tour surrounds their appearance at SummerStage at Central Park on 7/21 with Lucy Dacus, and includes a headlining…
As usual, BrooklynVegan Blog Radio on SiriusXMU makes many of its playlist selections based on stories we ran in the last week, and our April 10 show kicks off with Portishead, who just announced their first show in years would…
Back in March, Toyah and King Crimson's Robert Fripp covered Living Colour's 1988 classic "Cult of Personality" in solidarity with Ukraine. They've now revisited the song for their Sunday Lunch covers series, with a little more of the flash and flair their known…
Sleater-Kinney's third album and breakthrough, Dig Me Out, turns 25 today (4/8), and to celebrate they've announced a new album of other artists covering its songs. They've put together quite an exciting list of participating artists, including Courtney Barnett, St.…
Emma Ruth Rundle has announced new album Electric Guitar Two: Dowsing Voice, which will be released May 13 via Sargent House. It's a quasi sequel to 2011's EG1 and she says it's "album of improvised music – with an emphasis…
Motion City Soundtrack are gearing up to finally take their beloved 2005 sophomore album Commit This to Memory on tour this summer, and we're also teaming with the band on a new translucent ruby red vinyl pressing of their classic…
It's a big week in Indie Basement: Wet Leg finally release their debut album; Pavement finally release the Terror Twilight deluxe edition; plus reviews of new albums by Orville Peck, Kae Tempest, Mick Trouble, The Pop Group's Mark Stewart (ft.…
