Knockdown Center in Queens' seasonal series, Outline, has announced its fall edition, which happens Saturday, November 19. Helado Negro headlines, and the lineup also includes genre-defying NYC jazz/hip hop/soul collective Standing on the Corner, NYC singer-songwriter Vagabon (aka Lætitia Tamko), instrumental guitarist Yasmiin Williams, ambient… 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. It's officially fall, September is… Read More
MUNA released their self-titled third album in June, and they've been out on tour with Meet Me @ The Altar supporting it, stopping in NYC for a run of three sold out shows at Irving Plaza on Friday, Saturday, and… Read More
The Avalanches have canceled the remainder of their current North American tour. They wrote: "Unfortunately due to serious illness we have had to make the heartbreaking decision to cancel our remaining US and Canadian shows to return home. Thank you… Read More
SRSQ has shared a trippy new video for "Used to Love" off this year's very good Ever Crashing. “Cinematographer Leigh Violet and I drew on visual references from many artists, people, and real-life locations including ‘Blue Velvet’, John Waters, the… Read More
Yo La Tengo have announced the 2022 edition of their annual Hanukkah run at Bowery Ballroom from December 18 – 25. The band helpfully fill in the details of how these shows work: "If you've celebrated the holiday with us… Read More
Paramore played their first show in over four years at Mechanics Bank Arena in Bakersfield, CA last night. They opened with the live debut of their great new single "This Is Why," played "Simmer" off Hayley Williams' 2020 debut solo… Read More
Pavement continued their four-night run at Brooklyn's Kings Theatre on a drizzly Sunday (10/2), with their Matador Records labelmates Horsegirl opening. There are lots of fans going to multiple nights and Pavement have been really mixing up the setlists. Sunday night… Read More
Arctic Monkeys have been gearing up for the release of their anticipated seventh album The Car, and recently made the live debuts of some of its songs at Brooklyn's Kings Theatre, a relatively intimate venue for them at this point.… Read More
Bono is releasing SURRENDER: 40 Songs, One Story, a memoir told through the lens of 40 U2 songs, on November 1 via Penguin. “When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I’d previously… Read More