NY Brooklyn news

• Common Sage announce new LP, playing shows with Sparta, Sweet Pill & more

  26-09-2024 18:17 via brooklynvegan.com
  NYC post-hardcore band Common Sage are following their recent Nostos | Algos EP (featuring collaborations with Thursday’s Geoff Rickly & Steve Pedulla and Further Seems Forever’s Jason Gleason) with their first full-length album for Equal Vision, Closer To, due November 22 (pre-order). Like the EP, the album was produced by The Movielife/I Am The Avalanche member Brett Romnes, and the LP’s got two collaborations with other bands too: there’s one song with Stay Inside
  
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• Tour dates: Explosions in the Sky, Oasis, Caribou, Goose, Eagles, Sports Team / Houndmouth, more.

  03-10-2024 00:02 via brooklynvegan.com
  Here’s a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more.
  EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY
  Having just completed their trek across the Pacific Northwest and Canada, post-rock greats Explosions in the Sky have announced new 2025 tour dates happening in the spring, where they’ll hit Raleigh, Orlando, New Orleans, Knoxville, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Kingston, NY (Ulster PAC on 4/10), and more.OASIS
  If you were wondering whether Oasis could sell out stadiums in North Ame
  
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• The Get Up Kids brought ‘Something To Write Home About’ to Warsaw (night 2 pics, setlist)

  02-10-2024 23:14 via brooklynvegan.com
  The Get Up Kids are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their classic, massively influential 1999 album Something To Write Home About this year, and they’re in the midst of a tour where they’re playing that album in full, along with a set of favorites from throughout their discography. They stopped in Brooklyn for a pair of shows at Warsaw over the weekend, where they switched the second set up a bit from Saturday to Sunday. Night one got “One Year Later,” “Stay Gol
  
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• Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom announce holiday album, share cover of Willie Nelson/Roy Orbison’s “Pretty Paper”

  02-10-2024 21:40 via brooklynvegan.com
  Dean Wareham, his partner Britta Phillips, and frequent collaborator Sonic Boom have teamed up to make a holiday album. It’s titled A Peace of Us and will be out November 22 via Carpark. They made the album at Sonic Boom’s studio in Portugal: all three sang, Dean played guitar, Britta played bass and keyboards, and Sonic provided the psychedelic effects and mixed the album. Britta says it’s “like Bing Crosby…on acid,” which means a little more when you’
  
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• Oasis add more shows to 2025 North American tour

  02-10-2024 21:16 via brooklynvegan.com
  Having announced their first North American shows in 16 years on Monday, Oasis have now added additional dates in four of the five cities: Toronto, East Rutherford, Los Angeles, and Mexico. Like the initial dates, the new shows are with Cage the Elephant, and while registration for the presale is now closed, any remaining tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, October 5 at 12 PM local time.
  The new East Rutherford show is on September 1 at MetLife Stadium, the day after the previous
  
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• Ela Minus announces new album, shares “BROKEN”

  02-10-2024 21:16 via brooklynvegan.com
  Electronic artist Ela Minus has announced DIA, the follow-up to her 2020 debut, which will be released January 17 via Domino. She produced it herself, working in Colombia, Los Angeles, Seattle, NYC and London while it was mixed by Marta Salogni (FKA twigs, Sampha) and mastered by Heba Kadry.
  DIA includes this summer’s terrific single “COMBAT” and she’s just shared “BROKEN,” a swaying, cathartic dance anthem to which she comments, “I started wri
  
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• Joanna Sternberg announces NYC holiday show with TBA guests

  02-10-2024 20:54 via brooklynvegan.com
  Joanna Sternberg will celebrate the holidays with a special NYC show, happening on December 19 at Bowery Ballroom. Their “Holiday Spectacular” will feature “so many amazing songwriter friends of mine all singing their songs,” and they’ll close out the night with a headlining set. “We will be celebrating any and all winter holidays (this includes winter birthdays),” they add. The rest of the lineup is still to be announced, and tickets go on sale Friday,
  
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• Hatebreed opening for Knocked Loose in Connecticut & Indiana

  02-10-2024 20:05 via brooklynvegan.com
  Knocked Loose‘s upcoming headlining tour just keeps getting cooler. After already announcing the stacked lineup of Drain, Militarie Gun, and The Garden as the tour’s core package, they added Danny Brown to a few dates, and now they’ve added one of their clearest metallic hardcore forebears, Hatebreed, to the shows in Indianpolis and Hatebreed’s home state of Connecticut. “Knocked Loose wouldn’t be here without Hatebreed,” the band wrote. “Excited f
  
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• Record Store Day announces 2024 RSD Black Friday exclusive titles

  02-10-2024 19:36 via brooklynvegan.com
  Record Store Day has announced its list of exclusive titles for RSD Black Friday 2024, which happens on Friday, November 29 (the day after Thanksgiving).Some of the notable releases include:Angelo Badalementi – Music From Film And Television (LP)
  The Beatles – “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” b/w “I Saw Her Standing There” (7″ vinyl)
  Big Brother & The Holding Company – Live at the Grande Ballroom Detroit; March 2, 1968 (2xLP)
  Big Freedia – Hitz V
  
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• Tour news: Oasis, The Voidz, Mary J Blige, Today is the Day, Billie Eilish, We Are Scientists, Verböten, more

  01-10-2024 00:19 via brooklynvegan.com
  Here’s a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more.
  OASIS
  Oasis officially announced North American dates today which are all at stadiums and other giant outdoor venues. They also announced they will not use dynamic pricing for ticket sales.
  TODAY IS THE DAY
  Nashville experimental metal band Today is the Day will be on tour this fall, starting October 22 in New Hope, PA and wrapping up on Halloween in Ithaca, NY. Stops include Brooklyn (The Meadows on Oc
  
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• The Pavement movie has been acquired by MUBI

  30-09-2024 22:59 via brooklynvegan.com
  The Pavement movie, Pavements, had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival earlier in September and will make its North American Premiere this week at the New York Film Festival, has been acquired by MUBI, the movie streaming service that also has started distributing films theatrically as well (like The Substance).
  Variety reports that MUBI acquired all rights to the film in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, France and Canada, and will have exclusive SVOD (subscription video on demand)
  
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• Night Crickets (mems Bauhaus & Violent Femmes) prep new LP ft Willem Dafoe, Jason Lytle, more: hear “Red Mist White Knuckles”

  30-09-2024 21:35 via brooklynvegan.com
  Night Crickets, the trio of David J (Bauhaus, Love & Rockets), Victor DeLorenzo (Violent Femmes), and Darwin Meiners, started as a pandemic lockdown project but four years later they’re still going and will release their second album, How It Ends (?) on October 25 via Label 51.
  “We are each free to discover musical connections that could only exist in an ideal creative setting” says Victor. “We are very lucky to have three musicians who write, sing and play vario
  
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• Indigo De Souza cancels events, shares pics of damage to her home by Hurricane Helene

  30-09-2024 20:46 via brooklynvegan.com
  Asheville, North Carolina musician Indigo De Souza is one of the musicians whose home was affected by Hurricane Helene, and now she has cancelled the two dance events that she had scheduled to take place in LA and Asheville this October and shared some pics of the damages to her home. She writes:
  Hello all:Due to the devastating impact of hurricane Helene on my home and the places of my friends, family and neighbors, I’ve decided to cancel the dance events scheduled in LA and Asheville nex
  
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• Bowen Yang says he wasn’t “mocking” Chappell Roan in SNL Moo Deng segment

  30-09-2024 20:32 via brooklynvegan.com
  Saturday Night Live‘s 50th season premiere was this past weekend with host Jean Smart, a whole bunch of cameos (Maya Rudolph, Jim Gaffigan, Dana Carvey, Andy Samberg), and musical guest Jelly Roll. It also featured a Weekend Update segment where Bowen Yang played baby pygmy hippopotamus Moo Deng talking about the difficulties of fame by way of Chappell Roan.
  “Reminder: women owe you nothing. When I’m in my enclosure, tripping over stuff, biting my trainers knee, I am at work. T
  
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• Punitive Damage announce new EP ‘Hate Training,’ share “Baptism of Fire”

  30-09-2024 19:48 via brooklynvegan.com
  PacNW hardcore band Punitive Damage (whose vocalist Steph Jerkova used to play bass in Regional Justice Center) have announced a new EP, Hate Training, which comes out on October 25 via Convulse Records (pre-order) and follows their 2022 debut LP This Is The Blackout. The EP was recorded by Jesse Gander (Japandroids, White Lung, etc) and mixed by Taylor Young (who, in addition to his countless credits, is now also in Regional Justice Center), and a press release says the songs “directly ad
  
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• Joy Oladokun announces 2025 tour for new album ‘Observations From a Crowded Room’

  30-09-2024 19:35 via brooklynvegan.com
  Singer-songwriter Joy Oladokun will release new album Observations From a Crowded Room on October 18 and will support it on The Blackbird Tour which will hit US and Canadian cities in early 2025. “I’m excited to do a special run of shows playing my music in the way i’ve always imagined it,” Joy says. Things kick off January 16 in Minneapolis and wrapping up March 27 at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. All dates are listed, along with streams of three songs from the alb
  
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• Bruce Springsteen, Jim Gaffigan, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart & more performing at 2024 Stand Up for Heroes benefit

  30-09-2024 19:01 via brooklynvegan.com
  Lincoln Center has announced the 2024 edition of the annual Stand Up for Heroes benefit which happens on Monday, November 11 at David Geffen Hall. This year’s lineup includes many comedians and artists who have played this before: Jim Gaffigan, Norah Jones, Mark Normand, DJ Questlove, Patti Scialfa, Jerry Seinfeld, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart, and more still to be announced.
  Tickets are on sale and benefit the Bob Woodruff Foundation which supports veterans and their families.
  Jerry Sei
  
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• Watch MUNA cover Chappell Roan & Vanessa Carlton, and bring out Lucy Dacus at All Things Go NYC

  29-09-2024 04:50 via brooklynvegan.com
  MUNA delivered an electrifying set at the first-ever NYC edition of All Things Go at Forest Hills Stadium on Saturday (9/28), which reconfirmed their status as queer alt-pop heartthrobs. Though they admitted they hadn’t released new music in a bit, they still sounded totally energized as they played their 2023 single “One That Got Away,” material from their self-titled 2022 album, and more. The “and more” in this case included two covers — the first of which,
  
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• IDLES brought positive mayhem to fantastic Forest Hills Stadium show w/ The Walkmen (review, pics, setlist)

  28-09-2024 21:13 via brooklynvegan.com
  “ARE YOU READY TO COLLIDE?” Joe Talbot asked the floor at Forest Hills stadium who had just been ordered to split in half. The crowd was definitely ready to collide, and many had probably done so at previous IDLES shows. “ARE YOU READY TO LOVE?,” Talbot then added, making this not your usual wall of death. He then cried “Viva Palestina!” and the band launched into “Colossus” as the two sides of the audienced launched into each other. Soon guitarist
  
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• Stream Global Citizen 2024 live (Post Malone, Doja Cat, LISA, Rauw Alejandro, more)

  28-09-2024 14:57 via brooklynvegan.com
  Global Citizen returns to Central Park’s Great Lawn for its 2024 NYC edition today (September 28), and it’s also streaming live on Veeps. The livestream starts at 4 PM ET and is free to watch; tune in here.
  This year’s lineup includes Post Malone, Doja Cat, LISA of BLACKPINK, Rauw Alejandro, Jelly Roll, Benson Boone, RAYE, and ALOK & The Future is Ancestral, with Hugh Jackman hosting and appearances by Chris Martin of Coldplay and Dr. Jane Goodall.
  Jelly Roll also headlined
  
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• Louder Than Life cancels day 2, Slayer included, due to severe weather

  28-09-2024 14:30 via brooklynvegan.com
  Louisville, KY festival Louder Than Life cancelled its scheduled second day on Friday (9/27) as the remnants of Hurricane Helene battered the area. The day’s lineup was to have included Slayer (playing their second reunion set after Riot Fest last weekend), Til Lindemann, Anthrax, Clutch, Tom Morello, Show Me The Body, Set It Off, Fugitive, Holy Fawn, Gel, Ho99o9, and more.
  The festival had initially delayed doors on Friday, writing, “We’re committed to not only delivering the
  
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• Bright Eyes cancel the rest of their 2024 shows

  28-09-2024 00:30 via brooklynvegan.com
  Last week, Bright Eyes cancelled what were to be their next three shows, NYC, Omaha, and their Riot Fest set, “on the advice of doctors,” saying that Conor Oberst had lost his voice. They’ve now announced the cancellation of the rest of their 2024 shows for the same reason. A statement from the band reads:We regret to announce that we will have to cancel our shows for the rest of the year including in Los Angeles, Oakland, Las Vegas and Europe. We love our fans and are incredib
  
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• Tour news: Silverstein / Thursday, Billy Joel / Sting / Stevie Nicks, Ty Segall / King Tuff / Mikal Cronin, more

  27-09-2024 23:13 via brooklynvegan.com
  Here’s a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more.
  BILLY JOEL / STING / STEVIE NICKS
  Billy Joel, Sting and Stevie Nicks are joining forces for five stadium dates in 2025. They’re calling the run One Night One Stage, and dates are: February 8 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis; March 29 at Ford Field in Detroit; April 11 at JMA Wireless Dome in Syracuse; May 10 at Bank of American Stadium in Charlotte, NC; and May 23 at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Sal
  
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• Vampire Weekend played “Hot To Go!”, and the memes followed

  26-09-2024 21:51 via brooklynvegan.com
  If you spend time on the music-friendly corners of social media, you’ve probably seen the meme where two people are at a show, and one person says “I hope they play ‘Hot To Go!'” and the other person rolls their eyes and says “this is a [insert non-Chappell Roan artist here] concert,” and then the camera turns to whatever non-Chappell Roan artist is playing. For example, St. Vincent and Beck did it with Slayer at Riot Fest:@stvincentofficial are we doing this
  
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• Bad Moves list the songs that influenced new album ‘Wearing Out The Refrain’

  26-09-2024 19:46 via brooklynvegan.com
  DC power-pop punk Bad Moves recently released their new album Wearing Out The Refrain on Don Giovanni, and now they’ve made us a list of songs that influenced the album. It’s an especially detailed list, with multiple songs that inspired each song on the album, including songs by Can, Sonic Youth, Bongripper, The Apples In Stereo, Ty Segall, The New Pornographers, T Rex, The Mamas & the Papas, The Beach Boys, The Chiffons, Stevie Wonder, Carly Rae Jepsen, Parquet Courts, The Mode
  
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• Foo Fighters drop off Soundside; Jack White & Greta Van Fleet added

  26-09-2024 19:45 via brooklynvegan.com
  Foo Fighters have dropped off the lineup of this weekend’s Soundside Music Festival in Bridgeport, CT, where they had been scheduled to headline on Sunday, September 29. This was to have been their first show since Dave Grohl issued a statement on the baby “born outside of my marriage,” and in a message on the band’s Instagram, they write, “Foo Fighters will no longer be appearing at this weekend’s Soundside Music Festival. Please check the festival website fo
  
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• Milwaukee Metal Fest initial 2025 lineup (Down, Dillinger Escape Plan, Trouble, Speed, Fugitive, WITTR, more)

  26-09-2024 19:33 via brooklynvegan.com
  Milwaukee Metal Fest will return for its 2025 edition on May 15-18 at The Rave/Eagles Club, and they’ve announced the initial lineup. It includes New Orleans sludge supergroup Down (with Pantera’s Phil Anselmo, Crowbar’s Kirk Windstein, Corrosion of Conformity Pepper Keenan, Eyehategod/Crowbar’s Jimmy Bower, and Goatwhore/Crowbar’s Pat Bruders), the reunited Dillinger Escape Plan (playing Calculating Infinity), Exodus, Destruction, 3 Inches of Blood, Wolves in the T
  
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• U2 prep album of unreleased songs from ‘How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb’ sessions (hear 2 tracks)

  26-09-2024 19:10 via brooklynvegan.com
  The Cure is back and I bet those U2 billionaires are about to drop a whole new variant when they see this… oh wait. Just kidding, thought this was Pop Stan Twitter for a minute, BUT U2 did actually just announce something from their vaults the same day The Cure released their first song in 16 years.
  U2‘s 11th album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, turns 20 in November, and to celebrate the band are releasing a remastered reissue of the original record as well as what they’re
  
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• Paul Simon played an intimate NYC loft show (setlist)

  26-09-2024 18:07 via brooklynvegan.com
  While Paul Simon retired from touring in 2018, he’s done the occasional show since, and an all-star list of guests were treated to one such rare performance at an NYC loft space on Monday night (9/23). The invite-only event happened at the SoHo Sessions loft in Nolita, as New York Times reports, and was put on Nicole Rechter and Greg Williamson, who also produce the annual Love Rocks NYC benefit for God’s Love We Deliver. Monday night’s show benefitted the Stanford Initiative t
  
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• Ex-Vöid (ex-Joanna Gruesome) announce new album, share “Swansea”

  26-09-2024 17:42 via brooklynvegan.com
  Ex-Vöid, the London-based band led by former Joanna Gruesome leads Lan McArdle and Owen Williams, have announced a new album, In Love Again, which will be out January 17 via Tapete. It follows their excellent 2022 debut.
  The first single and opening song on the album is “Swansea,” named for the seaside city in Wales, and it grabs you instantly with its pleasingly messy guitar noise, big chorus and guitar hook (a little Teenage Fanclub in there), and the wonderful harmonies of Mc
  
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