Long Island chaotic hardcore vets Dr. Acula are reunited and gearing up for their first tour in 10 years, and now they've announced their first new album in 10 years, which is self-titled and due October 28 via Silent Pendulum… Read More

Williamsburg bar and venue Union Pool will be closed tonight (7/1) and Saturday (7/2), after a 5-alarm fire ripped through neighboring buildings early Friday morning. No one at Union Pool was hurt, but the bar did sustain some damage. According… Read More

Welcome to July! Holiday weekends are usually not the most exciting time for new releases, but today sees the release of one of my favorite albums of the year so far (Naima Bock's Giant Palm), as well as great new… Read More

The Wonder Years officially announced their highly anticipated seventh album, The Hum Goes on Forever, last week, and we're excited to be teaming up with them for an exclusive pressing, on "orange, bone & blue swirl" vinyl. It's limited to… Read More

Indie Basement is a weekly column on BrooklynVegan focusing on classic indie and alternative artists, "college rock," and new and current acts who follow a similar path. There are reviews of new albums, reissues, box sets, books and sometimes movies and… Read More

Calvin Harris has launched pre-orders and revealed the list of guests for Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2, the sequel to 2017's great Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1, which arrives August 5 via Sony. It includes his recent single "Potion" with… Read More

"Within our camp we have a saying: ‘Mad shit happens when you do art’ – it means what it means," says Yard Act frontman James Smith. In this case he's talking about the new studio version of their song "100%… Read More

Cardi B has released her first new single in over a year (her first since "Up," which came out in February 2021), and it's got a Tay Keith-produced, bass-heavy beat that sounds like it'll have car subwoofers rattling and dancefloors… Read More

It's a holiday weekend in the US (not that the US has much to celebrate right now) and that means a shorter release week than usual. There are still some great ones, three of which I highlight below, and more… Read More

Today (7/1) is Sufjan Stevens' birthday, and to celebrate he's shared two new alternate versions of the gorgeous, haunting "Fourth of July," from his excellent 2015 album Carrie and Lowell. Both were recorded around 2014: the "April Base Version" at… Read More