Philly post-hardcore band ASkySoBlack's self-released 2021 debut EP What Is Yet To Come? was one of last year's best punk EPs, and we since named them one of 25 newer bands every 2000s emo fan needs to know, and we're… 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. March birthed a wealth of… Read More
Former TEEN leader Teeny Lieberson has been performing as Lou Tides for a few years now, having created a multimedia live show with drummer Sarah Galdes that is unlike anything she did with her band. Lou has now announced her debut… Read More
City Girls have gone full drill with their new single "Top Notch," and they've tapped rising Brooklyn drill star Fivio Foreign to help them do it. JT, Yung Miami, and Fivio sound great together, and all three of them star… Read More
City Girls have gone full drill with their new single "Top Notch," and they've tapped rising Brooklyn drill star Fivio Foreign to help them do it. JT, Yung Miami, and Fivio sound great together, and all three of them star… Read More
Happy April! No jokes today, just some good records: Sondre Lerche's sprawling, ambitious Avatars of Love; Papercuts' charmingly glum seventh album; Jon Spencer releases his second album with The HITmakers; Warmduscher meet At the Hotspot; and Bath, UK band Rueben's Daughters… Read More
Back in 2020, Denver hardcore band FAIM put out their great debut full-length Hollow Hope on Safe Inside Records, and now they've given a 12" reissue to their Convulse Records-released 2018 7", as a split release between Safe Inside and… Read More
This week's Notable Releases is kinda light, but last week's Notable Releases had seventeen reviews, plus Bill reviewed eight more heavy hitters in Bill's Indie Basement and we reviewed the new Machine Gun Kelly album later on, so there's plenty… Read More
Mick Jagger has released a new solo song, "Strange Game," which is the theme song for the upcoming Gary Oldman-starring Apple Original series Slow Horses. The song was co-written with film composer Daniel Pemberton, and it's got sort of a… Read More
To celebrate Sunday's Grammy awards, Spotify has been releasing new entries in its singles series this week, having this year's Best New Artist nominees cover past nominees. The final entry in the series is a particularly exciting one: Arooj Aftab… Read More