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• Gatecreeper’s 10 favorite melodic death metal albums

  16-05-2024 16:10 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Arizona death metallers Gatecreeper are gearing up to release their excellent new album Dark Superstition tomorrow (May 17) via Nuclear Blast. We’ll have a review of that soon, but first, vocalist Chase Mason and bassist Alex Brown have made us a list of their favorite melodic death metal albums, to go along with this new melodeath-leaning LP. It includes Dismember (whose Fred Etsby assisted Gatecreeper on the new album) and In Flames (who Gatecreeper are on tour with as we speak), plus al
  
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• Stream Islands’ “The End” off their “final album”

  16-05-2024 16:00 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Montreal indie vets Islands are gearing up to release their 10th album, What Occurs, on June 21 (pre-order), and band leader Nick Thorburn also says it will be their last. We’re premiering album closer “The End,” and here’s what Nick says about it:
  The final song on the final album from Islands pulls no punches. It’s The End. We’ve reached the last stop on the station, and it’s time to disembark into the void. With this song, I wanted to look back on the
  
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• One Step Closer list their favorite songs they discovered in skate videos

  16-05-2024 15:42 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Wilkes-Barre hardcore band One Step Closer are releasing their sophomore album All You Embrace this Friday (5/17) via Run For Cover, and it marks a few changes for the group. They’ve brought in new guitarist/backing vocalist Colman O’Brien (who used to drum in Jail Socks), and they’ve got more clean vocals and shinier production. It was produced and engineered by Jon Markson (Drain, Drug Church, Koyo, etc), and they brought in Knocked Loose’s Isaac Hale and Citizen’
  
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• Poliça announce intimate NYC show

  16-05-2024 15:41 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  It’s been a little while since we’ve heard from Poliça — their last album was 2022’s Madness — but it seems like that’s about to change, as they’ve announced an intimate NYC show this summer. It happens on August 22 at The Sultan Room, and tickets go on sale Friday, May 17 at 10 AM ET.
  This is Poliça’s only upcoming show at the moment; stay tuned for more.
  
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• Tickets for The Blood Brothers’ NYC reunion shows on BV presale (password here)

  16-05-2024 15:35 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Tickets for The Blood Brothers‘ reunion shows at NYC’s Irving Plaza (December 13 & 14) go on BrooklynVegan presale today (5/16) at 10 AM. PASSWORD = BLOODBROTHERSBV.
  If it needs to be said, you might wanna act quick on this one – good luck! Any remaining tickets will go on sale Friday (5/17) at 10 AM.
  The Blood Brothers’ reunion tour also hits San Francisco, LA, Seattle, Chicago, Santa Ana, Denver, Portland, Austin, Boston, and Philly; and they have a 20th anniversary
  
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• Watch Les Savy Fav’s amazing Trump-mocking Seth Meyers performance of “World Got Great”

  16-05-2024 15:34 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Les Savy Fav released OUI, LSF — their first album in 13 years — a couple weeks ago, and last night appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers to perform single “World Got Great.” The band’s Sid Butler and Seth Jabour know the studio well, as they’ve been members of the show’s 8G Band since the start, and it’s pretty clear they were given the run of the place for this. Or at least frontman Tim Harrington was; he came out in a dark suit and a golf hat
  
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• Stream Ufomammut’s new LP ‘Hidden’ & read the band’s track-by-track breakdown

  16-05-2024 15:21 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Italy’s Ufomammut have been mixing doom and psychedelia for 25 years straight, and their time-tested formula is in tasty form on their new album Hidden. At this point, they’re up there with Sleep and Electric Wizard as far as trad-doom consistency goes, and they’re just as necessary for psych fans as they are for metalheads. The new album officially comes out Friday (5/17) via Neurot Recordings in the US and Supernatural Cat in Europe, but we’re premiering a full stream o
  
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• David Gilmour adds more NYC & LA shows to tour

  16-05-2024 15:18 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  David Gilmour has a few fall tour dates lined up supporting his new solo album Luck and Strange, with North American shows confined to either coast, NYC and Los Angeles. He’d just added a third NYC show, and now there’s a fourth, happening on November 9 at Madison Square Garden. Tickets to that and the three previously announced shows November 4, 5, and 6 go on sale to the general public on Friday, May 17 at 10 AM ET, with a fan presale for the new show starting today (5/16) at 10 AM
  
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• JFA drummer Mike “Bam-Bam” Sversvold has died

  16-05-2024 15:06 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Mike “Bam-Bam” Sversvold, original drummer for Phoenix hardcore/skate punk vets JFA, has passed away. The band broke the sad news by posting the above picture and writing: “Rest in peace Michael ‘Bam-Bam’ Sversvold, the best dang 80s Skate Rock drummer, bar none. Seen here cruising some outer Phoenix banks in combat boots after JFA practice, circa 1983.”
  No cause of death has been given, but Mike had dealt with a variety of health problems that led him to stop
  
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• Saosin reflect on 20+ years in new career-spanning BV interview

  16-05-2024 14:33 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  A lot’s going on in the world of Saosin right now. They’re gearing up to release Live From The Garden Amphitheater, a live album recorded at their 2023 20th anniversary shows with both lead vocalists (Anthony Green and Cove Reber) that includes a full performance of their debut EP Translating The Name, covers (of Sunny Day Real Estate, At the Drive-In, The Smashing Pumpkins, and Blindside), and more; they have a re-recorded “Saosin’s Version” of their self-titled al
  
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• Tour news: Kishi Bashi, Shellshag, Atmosphere, Real Estate, onelinedrawing, Noun, Bloomsday, more

  16-05-2024 00:34 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Here’s a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more.
  KISHI BASHI
  Kishi Bashi will release his new album Kantos on August 23 via Joyful Noise Recordings. A week after it’s out, he’ll start his North American tour in Atlanta on 9/3 and will hit Brooklyn at Warsaw on October 7. Check out the album’s first single, “Colorful State.”SHELLSHAG
  Garage punk lifers Shellshag are on tour this spring, starting May 29 in DC, and from ther
  
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