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BrooklynVeganScenesNew Godflesh & Jesu with Phoebe too The great Jon Wurster (The Mountain Goats, The Bob Mould Band, Superchunk, The Best Show with Tom Scharpling) is a prolific drummer and one of the funniest people on earth.

BrooklynVeganScenes5 Artists We Want to See at Louder Than Life 2026 Louder Than Life ‘s 2026 edition is this weekend: September 17-20 at Kentucky Expo Center in Louisville, KY. As always, we’re figuring out who we most don’t want to miss.

BrooklynVeganScenesCypress Hill announce ‘Haunted’ shows in NYC & Colorado + more tour dates (BV presale for NY) Cypress Hill are bringing their long-running Haunted Hill Halloween shows back to NYC this year for two nights at Irving Plaza.

BrooklynVeganScenesHaywire sign to Roadrunner, announce new LP & video, threw $$ into the crowd at Sound & Fury, keep touring & stuff (BV-exclusive vinyl) Boston punks Haywire are one of the fastest rising hardcore bands of recent times, and now they’ve announced their second full-length album, I Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye , due October 2 via their new…

BrooklynVeganScenesFontaines D.C. announce new album ‘Dopamine Chamber,’ share ‘Marianne,’ sang with Kurt Vile Fontaines D.C. have announced their fifth album, Dopamine Chamber , due October 16 via XL Recordings.

BrooklynVeganScenesThe Still Out reissue coming; song w/ Adam Franklin of Swervedriver (who they reformed to open for) out now New York City indie rock band The Still Out — who we recently mentioned were reforming to open some shows for their friends in Swervedriver — formed in the late 2000s by producers Josh Stoddard and…

BrooklynVeganScenesDenzel Curry & Kenneth Blume (fka Kenny Beats) reunite for new album, share Yebba-featuring “DIFFERENCE” (BV-exclusive vinyl) Rapper Denzel Curry , who has lately been dipping his toes more in hardcore , and producer Kenny Beats , who now goes by Kenneth Blume and is known lately for working with bands like IDLES, Geese…

BrooklynVeganScenesSwervedriver add Bleary Eyed & a reformed Love Battery to ‘Raise’ tour The first leg of Swervedriver ‘s North American, BrooklynVegan-presented tour celebarting 35 years of their debut album Raise begins this month, and as previously discussed , newer band Slow Fiction…

BrooklynVeganScenesTaking Back Sunday announce ‘Louder Now’ 20th anniversary reissue with bonus 7″ (exclusive vinyl) One of Taking Back Sunday ‘s most classic albums, their 2006 major label debut Louder Now , turns 20 this year, and to celebrate it they’re giving it a new vinyl reissue.

BrooklynVeganScenesYoung Fresh Fellows announce 2026 East Coast tour Pacific Northwest indie rock cult heroes Young Fresh Fellows , led for over 40 years by Scott McCaughey (R.E.M., Minus 5), rarely make it to the East Coast, but we’ve been blessed this decade.

BrooklynVeganScenesLollapalooza 2026 day 4 pics (Turnstile, Hot Mulligan, MUNA, Water From Your Eyes, more) The 2026 edition of Lollapalooza wrapped up on Sunday (8/2) at Chicago’s Grant Park. Turnstile played to a huge crowd that was going wild the whole time, and Brendan Yates ended their set by…

BrooklynVeganScenesAziz Ansari announce fall tour dates Aziz Ansari has announced a short fall run of his ongoing Hypothetical tour , kicking off in Los Angeles on October 7 and wrapping in DC on October 22. All dates are below.

BrooklynVeganScenesBonnie ‘Prince’ Billy announces live album, shares song ft. Samhain’s London May Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy , aka Will Oldham, has announced a new live album that was recorded at The Pico Union Project in Los Angeles over Valentine’s Day weekend 2025, not long after BPB released his…

BrooklynVeganScenesShe’s Green name their 5 favorite dream pop albums Minneapolis dream pop/shoegaze band She’s Green have named their five favorite dream pop albums in a new video made for BrooklynVegan.

BrooklynVeganScenes12 New Songs Out Today So many artists, so many songs, so little time. Each week we review a handful of new albums (of all genres), round up even more new music that we’d call “indie,” and talk about what metal is coming…

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Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

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