While NYC is on the verge of reopening from COVID lockdown, restrictions on live music remain. With hosting shows at full capacity still not on the immediate horizon, Brooklyn’s Market Hotel has announced that in the meantime it’ll be opening… Read More
“A couple of years ago I began making music with the wonderful Amy Douglass,” Hot Chip‘s Joe Goddard says of Hard Feelings, his newly announced duo with NYC singer-songwriter and Róisín Murphy collaborator Amy Douglas. “I had heard her song ‘Never Saw It… Read More
In addition to fronting Self Defense Family, Drug Church, and other bands, Patrick Kindlon co-hosts the Axe To Grind podcast and he’s also co-authored some graphic novels, including We Can Never Go Home and Nobody Is In Control. He has… 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
After not receiving a single nomination at the 2021 Grammys, The Weeknd announced that he would be boycotting the awards and not submitting his music going forward, citing the “corrupt” “secret committees” that have long been used to narrow down potential nominees. The… Read More
Satomi Magae recognizes that memory is as bound up in the body as it is in the surroundings. Since her 2012 debut, awa, the guitarist and vocalist has seen reflections of herself in the world around her, using empty streets,… Read More
This week on Toyah & Robert Fripp‘s “Sunday Lunch” covers series they take on Heart‘s 1977 rock classic, “Barracuda.” Given the piscine nature of the song there was only one way to do it: mermaid style. With an aqua blue… Read More
When Belgian musicians Dan Lacksman and Marc Moulin first joined forces as Telex in the late 1970s, the goal, Lacksman said last year, “was to do something not serious,” like taking a well-known French song and make it as slow… Read More
Lord Huron have shared “I Lied,” the fourth single off their upcoming album Long Lost (out 5/21). This one’s with a gorgeous ’60s-style country ballad that finds Ben Schneider duetting with Texas singer/songwriter Allison Ponthier. Listen and watch the video below.… Read More
Online music gear marketplace Reverb has announced their first full-length documentary. They describe The Pedal Movie as “the most comprehensive look at how effects pedals have influenced the sound of popular music as we know it,” and it features conversations… Read More