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• Tour news: Aqua, Luke Combs, Whitney, Talking Kind, Machine Girl, more

  25-08-2023 23:26 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Here’s a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more.
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  Danish-Norwegian europop band Aqua having been having a good summer with “Barbie Girl” back in the public consciousness thanks to the Barbie movie and they’re striking while the iron is hot, announcing a fall US tour that kicks off November 12 in Seattle. No NYC shows currently but they played here back in June.
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• Afropunk Brooklyn 2023 Set Times

  25-08-2023 22:54 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Afropunk Festival happens this weekend, August 26-27 in a different location than usual, Greenpoint Terminal Market, and the set times for day one have arrived. Flying Lotus headlines, and the lineup also includes Vince Staples, Tobe Nwigwe, Durnard Bernarr, Amindi, Proper., Madison McFerrin, Cleo Reed, and more. See the schedule below.
  The day two set times are still to be announced. Teyana Taylor will be headlining on Sunday, replacing Jazmine Sullivan, and that day’s lineup also feature
  
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• Green Day selling Donald Trump mugshot “ultimate Nimrod” t-shirt for charity

  25-08-2023 22:29 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Donald Trump‘s mugshot, from his fourth indictment this year, hit the internet on Thursday night (8/24), and since then it’s been inescapable, whether in the news, on social media, or as fodder for memes. Green Day, who have been vocally Anti-Trump in the past, are marking the occasion with a new piece of merch featuring the mugshot, which they’re calling “the ultimate Nimrod” shirt, as Stereogum points out. It’ll be available for 72 hours only, and proceeds w
  
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• Ratboys on how Maps & Atlases, Land of Talk, a cat named Moose & more inspired their new album

  25-08-2023 15:53 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Ratboys have just released their fourth album, The Window, on Topshelf (order yours). It’s their second album since the founding duo of vocalist/guitarist Julia Steiner and guitarist Dave Sagan solidified their lineup with bassist Sean Neumann (Jupiter Styles, Single Player) and drummer Marcus Nuccio (Dowsing, Pet Symmetry, The Please & Thank Yous, Mountains For Clouds), but first written collaboratively as a four-piece, and it was also their first album recorded outside of their homet
  
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• Becca Mancari on how their new album was inspired by Kehlani, ‘Women Talking,’ therapy & more

  25-08-2023 15:52 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Becca Mancari has just released their third album, Left Hand, via Captured Tracks. It features contributions from Julien Baker, Brittany Howard, and Paramore’s Zac Farro, and it continues down the synthy dream pop path of 2020’s The Greatest Part. Becca made us a list of some of the things that influenced the album, including a mix of music, books, movies, therapy, and more. Stream the album and read on for what they had to say…
  Left Hand by Becca Mancari
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• Spike Lee bringing back Michael Jackson & Prince block party in Brooklyn for the first time in 4 years

  25-08-2023 15:44 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Spike Lee has been celebrating Michael Jackson‘s birthday with annual Brooklyn block parties for many years, but he put them on hold because of Covid. He’s bringing it back this weekend for the first time in four years, on Saturday (8/26) at Fort Greene Park, from 12 PM – 7 PM. This year’s edition celebrates Prince, too, and DJ Spinna will provide the tunes. It’s free to attend, and Spike says, “Whaddup Party People. It’s Finally OFFICIAL. I’m Elat
  
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• Streetlight Manifesto’s ‘Everything Goes Numb’ turns 20

  25-08-2023 15:39 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Third-wave ska had a divisive silly side.  From the increasingly attenuated pun band names to all those checkers, many of the moment’s frontrunners leaned into genre tropes in ways that attracted as many detractors as loyal devotees.  How a genre originally rooted in Jamaican dancehall ended up splitting the difference between SoCal pop punk and any given suburban high school’s marching band is a story worth telling, but not every band with a horn section at the turn of the
  
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• 10 things that influenced Buck Meek’s (Big Thief) great new album ‘Haunted Mountain’

  25-08-2023 15:32 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek‘s third album, Haunted Mountain, is his most accomplished yet, made with his core solo band — Mat Davidson of Twain (who also produced it), Adam Brishin, and Austin Vaughn — alongside new bassist Ken Woodward and Buck’s brother Dylan Meek. It also features lyrical contributions from Jolie Holland and the closing song, “The Rainbow,” uses unfinished song lyrics from late folk legend Judee Sill. Read our Notable Releases review, and
  
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• Full of Hell surprise-release split & collab with powerviolence vets Gasp

  25-08-2023 15:22 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Full of Hell have teamed up for a surprise split release with LA powerviolence vets Gasp. It includes two Full of Hell songs, one Gasp song, and a collaborative song from both bands. Though FOH and Gasp are both known for making very fast music, this split explores their slower, sludgier, noisier sides, and features multiple extended noise passages. Both FOH songs are over eight minutes long, and the collab song is over nine minutes long. Listen to the whole thing below.
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• Notable Releases of the Week (8/25)

  25-08-2023 15:10 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  This is the last Friday before September, and I guess everyone’s scrambling to drop before Labor Day Weekend, because this might be the busiest week for new albums of 2023 yet! I highlight 13 below, and this is one of those weeks where all 12 fall into the “highly anticipated” category. And that’s not all. Bill tackles Sonny & The Sunsets, Cindy Wilson (The B-52’s), Who Is She? (Chastity Belt, Tacocat, Lisa Prank), Film School, The Lilac Time, and the Drab Majes
  
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• Indie Basement (8/25): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more

  25-08-2023 15:07 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  This week in Indie Basement: Nashville’s Be Your Own Pet‘s first album in 15 years; Sonny & The Sunsets teach Self Awareness Through Macrame; plus Drab Majesty, snarky Seattle supergroup Who is She? (members of Chastity Belt, Tacocat), long-running California shoegazers Film School, The B-52s‘ Cindy Wilson and The Lilac Time.
  This week feels like the last chance for labels to drop their summer releases and there are just so many records out today. Andrew reviews another 12
  
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