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• Kevin Morby began solo tour in Brooklyn, covering Springsteen at Woolworth Bldg

  15-06-2018 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Springsteen covers shows has Kevin playing in an apartment on the 40th floor of the Woolworth building where you can also check outa viewing of Springsteen's draft of "Born to Run."
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• Tour news: Starcrawler, Thee Sacred Souls, La Doña, Axis:Sova / Purling Hiss, more

  09-05-2024 00:40 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Here’s a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more.
  STARCRAWLER
  Starcrawler will be on the road for much of 2024, including opening for Boris on their fall tour which hits NYC on October 23 at Racket. Before that they’ve got a West Coast headline tour around Punk Rock Bowling. All dates are here.
  THEE SACRED SOULS
  San Diego-based soul trio Thee Sacred Souls will be on tour this summer, beginning at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival on June 22 (
  
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• Efterklang announce new album, share “Plant” ft Mabe Fratti

  08-05-2024 22:38 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Danish group Efterklang have announced a new album, Things We Have In Common, which will be out September 27 via City Slang. The album features appearances from Beirut, Mabe Fratti and Sønderjysk Pigekor.
  Things We Have in Common also features the return of Rune Mølgaard, who left the band in 2007 and co-wrote seven of the nine songs on the album. It also was made after Rune left the Mormon church. “It became a completely therapeutic process for me,” says Rune. “W
  
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• Martha Skye Murphy announces debut LP ‘Um’ ft. Claire Rousay & more, shares “Pick Yourself Up”

  08-05-2024 22:07 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  UK artist Martha Skye Murphy has released some EPs over the last few years, and now she’s announced her debut full-length album, Um, due out on June 14 via AD 93. She co-produced it with Ethan P. Flynn, and it features Claire Rousay on “Forgive,” Roy Montgomery on “Need,” Alex McKenzie of Caroline, and Laurie Nankivell of Squid. You can see the cover art and tracklist below.
  “I wanted the album to feel like this constant tension between being in a very intimat
  
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• Heavenly announce first West Coast shows in 29 years

  08-05-2024 21:56 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Indiepop cult heroes Heavenly will be in NYC later in May for their first US shows since the ’90s. They’ve now announced they’ll be back in the fall for their first West Coast shows in 29 years. They’ll play Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and all dates are listed below.
  The Seattle, Portland and San Francisco shows are with Swansea Sound, the indiepop supergroup led by Heavenly‘s Amelia Fletcher and Pooh Sticks‘ Hue
  
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• fantasy of a broken heart announce debut LP, share “Ur Heart Stops”

  08-05-2024 21:54 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Having signed to Dots Per Inch Music back in March with the release of the great “AFV,” Al Nardo (Water From Your Eyes, Sloppy Jane) and Bailley Wollowitz (Sloppy Jane) have announced their debut album as fantasy of a broken heart. Feats of Engineering is due out on September 27 via Dots Per Inch, and it features contributions from Nate Amos (This Is Lorelei, Water From Your Eyes) and Jordana. You can see the cover art and tracklist below.
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• Bikini Kill announce openers for summer tour

  08-05-2024 21:04 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Bikini Kill begin their North American tour in August, and they’ve announced support for the run. Black Belt Eagle Scout, Sweeping Promises, Death Valley Girls, The Ghost Ease, Cheap Perfume, Blisster, Shadow Show, Retail Simps, Birthday Girl, and Birthday Girl DC each open select shows, and you can see the updated schedule below.
  The NYC shows are at Brooklyn Paramount on September 7 and 8, with Birthday Girl on night one and Sweeping Promises on night two.
  Kathleen Hanna also begins her
  
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• Nirvana, Pixies, Superchunk, Wedding Present, Cloud Nothings, Breeders & more pay tribute to Steve Albini

  08-05-2024 20:11 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Following the tragic news that Steve Albini passed away at the age of 61, the music world has been paying tribute to the indie rock icon. Nirvana, Michael Azerrad (who wrote the 1993 Nirvana biography Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana), Pixies, Superchunk, Jack White, The Breeders, Cloud Nothings, Fred Armisen, David Gedge (of Wedding Present, who told us about the album he made with Albini in an interview), Low, Lamb of God, Fucked Up, CLPPNG, Jarvis Cocker, Sadie Dupuis (of Speedy Ortiz),
  
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• Tour news: Suki Waterhouse / Bully, Gesaffelstein, Slowdive, EXTC, Freak Heat Waves, more

  07-05-2024 00:09 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Here’s a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more.
  SUKI WATERHOUSE / BULLY
  Suki Waterhouse has announced The Sparklemuffin Tour which has Bully as opener on most shows. The tour kicks off September 28 in Denver and hits NYC at Brooklyn Paramount on December 7.FREAK HEAT WAVES
  Cindy Lee, aka former Women singer/guitarist Patrick Flegel, had been on tour supporting their fantastic new triple album Diamond Jubilee, but canceled the rest of t
  
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• NYC’s Little Island announces 2024 lineup of free summer shows & events

  06-05-2024 23:12 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Hudson River Park’s Little Island has announced its 2024 lineup of free and low cost shows and events that happen June through September.
  This year features nine world premieres throughout the four-month season at Little Island’s 700-seat amphitheatre, The Amph, including “How Long Blues” (June 1-23), a collaboration between Twyla Tharp, T Bone Burnett and David Mansfield; and “The Manhattan Variations” (August 14-18), a new piece from Chris Thile and Claire C
  
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• Half Waif announces new EP, shares “Big Dipper”

  06-05-2024 22:59 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Half Waif has announced a new EP, Ephemeral Being, due out on May 31 via ANTI-. She recorded it during winter 2021 and the following spring, and according to a press release it’s “the first offering in a larger body of work coming later this year.” See the cover art and tracklist below.
  The first single is “Big Dipper,” which Half Waif says is “a song about looking for answers, and finding none, and looking again. It was written at a time when I was feeling ve
  
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• CSS brought the party to joyous Webster Hall show on their first tour in 11 years (review, pics, video, setlist)

  06-05-2024 22:02 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  In line for CSS‘ show, I noticed there were people dressed up in costume. The band were known for wild shows but never in that way, and these folks were dressed as vikings and faery folk. Turned out I was at the wrong venue. CSS’ show was at Webster Hall but at nearby Irving Plaza, where I was mistakenly at, it was the annual Stevie Nicks tribute party Night of 1000 Stevies. Oops! I’m sure that was fun, but Webster Hall only needed one Lovefoxxx to make the show a total rager.
  
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• Mach-Hommy announces album ft. Black Thought, Roc Marciano, Kaytranada & more, shares new song

  06-05-2024 20:45 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Mach-Hommy has announced a new album, #RICHAXXHAITIAN, due May 17 via self-release. It’ll include guest vocalists Black Thought, Roc Marciano, Your Old Droog, Tha God Fahim, 03 Greedo, HEPHZIBAH, and Big Cheeko, alongside production from Conductor Williams, Kaytranada, Quelle Chris, Sadhu Gold, and more. The first single is the title track, produced by Kaytranada and featuring 03 Greedo. Listen below.
  Mach-Hommy says:
  All the people I worked with are people who I know and who I’
  
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• BeachLife Festival cancels Sunday due to high winds

  06-05-2024 19:25 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Redondo Beach, CA’s BeachLife Festival cancelled its third day on Sunday due to high winds. Organizers evacuated the festival during ZZ Top‘s set for an hour, then made the decision to cancel the remainder of the day. in a statement, they write:t is with great sadness that we must cancel our programming at BeachLife this Sunday evening, due to a serious wind event that put the general public at risk. While we take extraordinary measures to keep our fans and artists safe, and while ab
  
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• Watch the trailer for upcoming Lollapalooza docuseries

  06-05-2024 19:11 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Paramount+’s three-part docuseries Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza is out May 21, and they’ve just dropped the trailer for it. It features festival founder Perry Farrell, plus Chance the Rapper, Flea, Trent Reznor, Ice-T, Tom Morello, Lars Ulrich, Vernon Reid, and more, and you can watch below.
  Directed by Michael John Warren (Jay-Z’s Fade to Black), the docuseries tracks the creation of Perry Farrell’s touring festival, which took a wide range of alt-rock, hip hop, punk
  
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• Cindy Lee cancels remainder of tour

  05-05-2024 13:52 via brooklynvegan.com
  Cindy Lee, aka former Women singer/guitarist Patrick Flegel, has been on tour supporting their fantastic new triple album Diamond Jubilee, but the remainder of the dates have been cancelled. Empty Bottle announced that Saturday’s Chicago show was cancelled “due to personal reasons within the touring party,” and other venues have also shared the update, as have collaborators and openers Freak Heat Waves, who wrote, “For reasons beyond our control the remaining dates of the
  
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• Kendrick Lamar drops 4th Drake diss track

  05-05-2024 03:35 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  This morning we woke up to Kendrick’s third Drake diss track, and before bed we’ve already got a fourth, and this time before Drake even had a chance to respond again. Listen to “Not Like Us’ below:
  
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• Kendrick fires back with Drake with “Meet the Grahams”

  04-05-2024 15:37 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  This Kendrick Lamar / Drake beef is so intense right now that you can’t turn away for a second without one of them firing back. Drake dropped “Family Matters” late last night, and Kendrick already fired back. The intense, six-and-a-half minute “Meet the Grahams” is a series of open letters over a moody, piano-fueled backdrop from The Alchemist that sounds like it could’ve been on Mr. Morale. The first verse is addressed to Drake’s son Adonis, the second
  
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• 2024 Lovers & Friends Fest canceled just hours before it was set to start due to high winds forecast

  04-05-2024 15:29 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Today’s Las Vegas’ throwback R&B / hip-hop festival Lovers & Friends has been canceled due to forecasted high winds. The announcement came at just after midnight on Saturday morning:
  Saturday’s Lovers & Friends Festival at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds has been canceled.
  Lovers & Friends Festival organizers have been monitoring the weather for several days and proactively preparing for a windy Saturday. However, the National Weather Service has now issued a Hig
  
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• Drake drops 7+ minute Kendrick Lamar diss track, “Family Matters”

  04-05-2024 05:45 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  The Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef escalated this week when Kendrick dropped not one but two Drake diss tracks, “Euphoria” and “6:16 In LA,” and now Drake has responded. He just put out “Family Matters,” a seven-and-a-half minute song with multiple beat switches that feels like as much of a musical response to “Euphoria” as a lyrical one. While he’s at it, Drake also takes shots at The Weeknd, Future, Metro Boomin, A$AP Rocky, and Rick Ross. A
  
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• Tour news: Slipknot, Hermanos Gutierrez, L’Impératrice, Jet, “The Music of Crosby, Stills and Nash,” more

  04-05-2024 00:03 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Here’s a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more.
  L’IMPÉRATRICE
  French disco band L’Impératrice will release their new album Pulsar on June 7, and they’ll be on tour this fall. They’ve just added a Los Angeles date (9/27 at Shrine Expo Hall) and before that they’ve got two sold-out shows at NYC’s Terminal 5 on 9/7 & 9/8. Check out their latest single “Love on the Other Side.”SLIPKNOT
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• Duane Eddy, twangy guitar icon, has died

  02-05-2024 00:04 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Duane Eddy, the guitarist whose twangy guitar style helped shape the sound of rock n’ roll, died on Tuesday in Franklin, TN at age 86. Via The New York Times, his wife said his cause of death was complications from cancer.
  Eddy’s signature “twangy” sound could be heard on a string of hits from the late-’50s and early-’60s, including “Rebel Rouser,” “Cannonball,” “40 Miles of Bad Road,” “Because They’re Young&rdqu
  
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• Casiokids are back; listen to their first new single in 13 years

  01-05-2024 23:30 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Norwegian band Casiokids had a moment in the late ’00s / early-’10s with infectious if hard to pronounce singles like “Fot I Hose” and “Verdens Største Land” (released on Polyvinyl in the US and Moshi Moshi in the UK) and their undeniably fun live show. (I once saw them at tiny Williamsburg club Cameo where one of the openers was Mumford & Sons.) The band never broke up, but went into hibernation not long after releasing 2011’s Aabenbaringen O
  
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• Australian hardcore band Speed announce debut LP (exclusive vinyl & new video)

  01-05-2024 23:15 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Australian hardcore band Speed have built up a reputation off the strength of their wild live show and some killer EPs, and now they’ve finally announced their anticipated debut full-length album. It’s called Only One Mode, and it’s due July 12 via Flatspot Records in the US and Last Ride Records in Australia. We’ve teamed up with the band on an exclusive quad black & white vinyl variant, which is limited to 300. Pre-orders are up now in the BV shop and you can check
  
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• Lovers & Friends announces 2024 set times (Janet Jackson, Usher, Backstreet Boys, Lil Wayne, more)

  01-05-2024 22:35 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Lovers & Friends returns for its third edition this Saturday (5/4) at Las Vegas Festival Grounds, and they’ve announced the 2024 set times. With a ton of artists performing on five stages there are set time conflicts galore, including at the end of the night, when Janet Jackson, Nas, and M.I.A. perform at the same time.
  Other set time conflicts include Nelly vs Kelly Rowland vs Lupe Fiasco; Nelly Furtado vs Majid Jordan; Gwen Stefani vs T-Pain vs 98 Degrees; Mary J. Blige vs Rick Ross;
  
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• Bad Religion, The Damned, The Jesus Lizard, Scowl & more playing No Values sideshows in CA

  01-05-2024 22:16 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  The inaugural No Values Festival happens on Saturday, June 8 at Pomona Fairplex in Pomona, CA, and they’ve announced a few headlining “sideshows” from artists playing the festival, in the days surrounding it. Those include:The Exploited and D.I. at The Glass House on June 5
  Bad Religion and Slaughterhouse at Garden Amp on June 6
  Power Trip with Soul Glo, and Spy at The Glass House on June 6, and with Soul Search and Mortal Wound at Fonda Theatre on June 9
  The Damned and The Ave
  
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• Power Trip announce California shows with Soul Glo, Soul Search & more

  01-05-2024 21:55 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Power Trip, with Seth Gilmore (Fugitive/Skourge) on vocals, announced they’d be making their official live return at Pomona festival No Values in June, and they’ve now announced a couple of California shows surrounding the fest with killer support. They’ll warm up for No Values on June 6 at The Glass House in Pomona, CA, which is with Soul Glo and Spy; the day after the fest, they’ll play Los Angeles’ Fonda Theatre on June 9, which is with Soul Search and Mortal Wou
  
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• Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra announce East Coast tour dates

  01-05-2024 21:45 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Jeff Goldblum is bringing The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra back to the East Coast for a brief tour. Dates include DC and Pittsburgh in late spring, and then they’ll be back in July for three NYC-area shows: July 25 at Canoe Palace in the Hamptons, then July 26 at The Opera House in Williamsburg and July 27 at Le Poisson Rouge.
  Tickets for the July shows go on sale Friday, May 3 at 10 AM. All dates are listed below.Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer OrchestraMay 30 Washington DC Lincoln T
  
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• Carly Cosgrove announce new album ‘The Cleanest of Houses Are Empty,’ share new song

  01-05-2024 21:10 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Fresh off winning over some pretty massive crowds on the Wax Bodega Tour, Philly emo band Carly Cosgrove have announced their sophomore album, The Cleanest of Houses Are Empty, due June 14 via Wax Bodega (pre-order). They made it at Studio 4 with Justin Bartlett (who’s worked alongside Will Yip on several records), and drummer Tyler Kramer says, “We purposely wanted to make a big, very live-sounding record. Our live show is the best way to hear our music because of the energy we&rsqu
  
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• Waxahatchee played Brooklyn Paramount with Good Morning (pics, video, setlist)

  30-04-2024 00:40 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Waxahatchee recently began her tour supporting her fantastic new album Tigers Blood, and on Saturday (4/27) she stopped in NYC for the first of a few area shows she has lined up, at Brooklyn Paramount. The stage setup for this tour has her standing on a little platform, festooned with lights, center stage, with her fantastic band (including Spencer Tweedy on drums, who also contributed to the album) arrayed around her, and all of them in front of a three-hubbed, light-up backdrop. Taken together
  
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