POP

So much rap music comes out all the time, and especially with frequent surprise releases, it can be hard to keep track of it all. So, as a way to help keep up with all of it, here’s a roundup… Read More

The amazing triple-billed tour of Mannequin Pussy, Angel Du$t, and Pinkshift wrapped up their run together on Saturday night (10/30) at Bowery Ballroom, their second of two NYC shows (the first was on Thursday at Music Hall of Williamsburg). Mannequin… Read More

Curtis Harding‘s new album If Words Were Flowers is out Friday, and here’s one final early taste before the whole thing drops. Sprinkled with spacey synths, “Explore” is a groovy psychedelic soul love song, and you can listen below. You… Read More

The Magnetic Fields are a little over a week into their tour of City Winery locations, where they play multi-night residencies in each city on their itinerary. They started with three nights in Boston, and just wrapped up a four-show… Read More

Before Dawn of Chromatica, before Club Future Nostalgia, before B In The Mix, before The Remixes, there was ayu-mi-x, Ayumi Hamasaki‘s debut remix album. Almost immediately after the Empress of J-Pop™’s career first took off with a song for xx… Read More

Steve Buscemi usually gets in the Halloween spirit and dresses up to pass out candy at his Park Slope home. This year for his costume he turned to his own meme, the “How do you do, fellow kids?” scene from… Read More

Earlier this year, Jarvis Cocker‘s current band, JARV IS…, released a dub mix of “Swanky Modes” by reggae great Dennis Bovell as a single. That is now part of a new remix album that also features Hot Chip, David Holmes… Read More

Iron Maiden released a new album, Senjutsu, in September (order on vinyl), and while the next leg of their Legacy of the Beast tour isn’t until June of 2022, frontman Bruce Dickinson will head to North America earlier next year… 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. Here are The Genre’s best… Read More

The War on Drugs released a new album, I Don’t Live Here Anymore, on Friday (order on clear blue vinyl), and while their first concert since doing so is still a couple weeks away (Desert Daze fest), they did just… Read More