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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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• Fleetwood Mac are done, Stevie Nicks says

  17-06-2024 19:15 via brooklynvegan.com
  Stevie Nicks spoke about the future of Fleetwood Mac in an interview with Mojo. “Without Christine [McVie], no can do,” she told Mojo, continuing, “There is no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together in any way. Without her, it just couldn’t work.”
  Lindsey Buckingham was fired from the band in 2018, and said at the time that manager Irving Azoff told him “Stevie never wants to be on a stage with you again.” Stevie addressed the situation herself in
  
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• Basilica Soundscape announces initial 2024 lineup (Lightning Bolt, Cassandra Jenkins, Maria BC, more)

  17-06-2024 18:53 via brooklynvegan.com
  Hudson, NY music and art festival Basilica Soundscape is returning for its first full weekend since 2019, happening on September 27-29 at Basilica Hudson. They’ve announced the initial 2024 lineup, which starts with Eris Drew and Octo Octa DJing an all night, all-vinyl party on their custom LUV NRG sound system on Friday, with lighting by Nitemind.
  Saturday’s lineup includes Lightning Bolt, Still House Plants, Elucid, Maria BC, Cassandra Jenkins (solo set), Greg Mendez, Babehoven, Ki
  
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• From Indian Lakes celebrated ‘Head Void’ at NYC comeback show (review)

  17-06-2024 18:46 via brooklynvegan.com
  From Indian Lakes played their first show in New York in five years on Friday night (6/14) to a packed crowd at Baby’s All Right in support of their fantastic new record Head Void. And rather than plying the audience of longtime fans with a blended set of those songs and the hits, they opted to play the entire record front to back before switching gears for a career-spanning setlist that ended with two songs played solo by band leader Joe Vann.Head Void is something of a comeback for the b
  
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• GWAR announce ‘The Stoned Age’ fall tour w/ Dark Funeral and Squid Pisser

  17-06-2024 18:27 via brooklynvegan.com
  GWAR have announce ‘The Stoned Age Tour’ which has them out in October and November with Dark Funeral Squid Pisser and, on some dates Cancer Bats. Before that they’ll be wrapping up their ‘Age of Entitlement Tour’ with Brujeria, BRAT, and Cancer Christ, and in September will also play Knotfest and Riot Fest. All dates are listed below.
  The NYC show is at Brooklyn Steel on November 6, and tickets for all dates go on sale Friday, June 21 at 10 AM local time.
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• Opeth add Tribulation to fall North American tour

  17-06-2024 18:15 via brooklynvegan.com
  Opeth return to North America on tour in October, and they’ve announced that joining them for the shows will be Tribulation. “We’re honored and very glad to announce that we’ll be joining our good friends in Opeth on their upcoming tour across North America this fall, finishing everything off nicely on Halloween,” Tribulation write. “It’s been far, far too long since we last made a proper run across the pond and we couldn’t be happier that we&rsquo
  
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• Ed Schrader’s Music Beat announces new album, touring with Future Islands (watch “Daylight Commander” video)

  17-06-2024 17:43 via brooklynvegan.com
  Long-running Baltimore duo Ed Schrader’s Music Beat have announced a new album, Orchestra Hits, which will be out September 20 via Upset the Rhythm. Schrader and Devlin Rice made this one with Dylan Going who served as co-writer and coproducer on these nine songs.  “We’re terrified of turning into AC/DC. We never want to be married to one scene or time or sound,” says Schrader. “We want to be the Boba Fett of bands—constantly altering the way in which we
  
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• Why Bonnie announce new LP & NYC shows, share “Fake Out”

  17-06-2024 17:42 via brooklynvegan.com
  Brooklyn-via-Texas singer-songwriter Blair Howerton has announced a new album from her project Why Bonnie. Wish on the Bone is due out on August 30 via Fire Talk, their first release for the label. Howerton co-prodduced the album with Jonathan Schenke, and she says, “We were trying on musical hats. There’s still some country on this record, but I wasn’t thinking about sticking to one thing. Personal experience of learning to be bolder and more assertive and trusting myself has
  
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• Shonali (ex-Ultrababyfat) preps new solo album & tour, shares “Driving Nowhere” video ft Dave Hill

  17-06-2024 17:09 via brooklynvegan.com
  Musician, comedian and actress Shonali, who you may remember from late-’90s/early-’00s indie rock band Ultrababyfat, has announced a new solo album, One Machine At A Time, which will be out July 26 via Little Lamb Recordings. She says it’s inspired by all the music she loves, including “indie rock, soul, psychedelic and retro sounds of the 70s, 80s, and 90s along with the folk singer-songwriter and country influences of my time growing up in Nashville, Tennessee.”
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• Toro y Moi at Knockdown Center on BrooklynVegan Presale (password here)

  17-06-2024 17:02 via brooklynvegan.com
  Tickets for Toro y Moi‘s NYC show at Knockdown Center on October 3 are on BrooklynVegan Presale now. Use the password BKVEGAN (password will be entered for you automatically).
  Our presale runs until Tuesday (6/18) at 9:59 AM ET, and any remaining tickets go on sale to the general public on Tuesday, June 18 at 10 AM ET.
  See all of Toro y Moi’s upcoming dates here.
  
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• Charli XCX presenting “The Brat Collection” film series at NYC’s Roxy Cinema

  15-06-2024 17:12 via brooklynvegan.com
  In celebration of her great new album Brat, Charli XCX has curated a film series at NYC’s Roxy Cinema called “The Brat Collection” that runs now through July 3. The series started on Monday, June 10 with two screenings of Michael Alig story Party Monster which featured Q&As with Charlie, but the rest of the series is still to come and is loaded with classics, most of which are being shown in 33mm(*):Daisies* (June 17, 20, 22)
  Velvet Goldmine* (June 24, 25, 29, 30)
  Project X
  
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• Tour news: Sumac, Mike Campbell, Eagles @ Sphere, Midge Ure, Cactus Blossoms / Erin Rae, Poliça, more

  15-06-2024 00:42 via brooklynvegan.com
  Here’s a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more.
  SUMAC (DATES WITH PORTRAYAL OF GUILT / TRIGGER OBJECT)
  SUMAC, the post-metal trio of Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom, etc), Brian Cook (Russian Circles, Botch, These Arms Are Snakes), and Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists, ex-The Armed), release their new album The Healer next Friday (6/21), and they’ll start their summer tour the same day. They’ve just announced more dates across the Southwest in A
  
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• Metronomy’s Anna Prior tells us how Robyn, Björk, Honey Dijon & more influenced her debut solo EP

  14-06-2024 21:38 via brooklynvegan.com
  Since 2011, Anna Prior has kept the beat in Metronomy and has been one of the keys to them becoming one of the best live bands, dance rock or otherwise, of the last decade. The group are on pause at the moment and Prior has taken the opportunity explore her own musical path, which reflects her growing obsession with dance music and nightlife culture, as well as her desire to be a part of it without all the indulgences that are usually associated with it. These seven songs are much more purely da
  
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• Annabel announce tour; new album ‘Worldviews’ out now

  14-06-2024 21:20 via brooklynvegan.com
  Annabel just released their first album in nine years, Worldviews, today on Tiny Engines, and now they’ve announced a tour that finds them joined by Del Paxton, Camp Trash, Farseek, and Perennial on select dates.
  The tour hits NYC on August 8 at the Windjammer in Ridgewood, Queens, and also includes stops in Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Knoxville, Asheville, and more. All dates are listed below.
  Read our review of Worldviews in Notable Releases.
  Worldviews by AnnabelAnnabel — 2024
  
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• Alison Moyet (Yazoo) announces new album ‘Key,’ shares “Such Small Ale” and rework of “All Cried Out”

  14-06-2024 20:59 via brooklynvegan.com
  Alison Moyet, who scored ’80s hits as one half of synthpop band Yazoo (Yaz in North America) and as a solo artist, has announced a new album, Key, which will be out October 4. The album, which also celebrates her 40th year as a solo artist, features brand new versions of 16 singles, and other songs from her career. Says Alison, “I wanted to take the opportunity to look at the trajectory of the past four decades and explore songs that, in their original form, were never fully realised
  
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• John Grant tells us how Cocteau Twins, The Carpenters, Kate Bush & more influenced his new LP ‘The Art of the Lie’

  14-06-2024 19:45 via brooklynvegan.com
  John Grant came of age in the ’80s and he’s surrounded himself with the sounds of his youth on his excellent sixth album. Working with producer Ivor Guest (Grace Jones, Bomb the Bass, Lana Del Rey) and a band of ace session musicians, Grant takes Fairlight synth orchestra hits, 808 drum machines, fretless bass and other recognizable sounds of the Reagan era (plus a love of classic 4AD, which would technically be Thatcher era) and folds them into his unique style where grandiose &rsqu
  
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• JPEGMAFIA announces ‘Lay Down My Life Tour,’ teasing album details

  12-06-2024 19:58 via brooklynvegan.com
  JPEGMAFIA has been giving new album updates all year and said on April 4 that it’s coming “soon very soon.” Since then, he’s posted pictures with Denzel Curry, Raveena, and Marc Rebillet that seem to imply they all appear on the album. Still no word on when the album might be ready, but now he just announced the ‘Lay Down My Life Tour’ for August/September so hopefully that means we’ll know more about the album by then. An RSVP page for the whole tour is
  
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• Toro y Moi announces new LP ft. Ben Gibbard, Kevin Abstract, more & shows, shares “Tuesday”

  12-06-2024 19:27 via brooklynvegan.com
  Toro y Moi announced a new album, Hole Erth, due out on September 6 via Dead Oceans. It’s his eighth LP and it features guest appearances from Death Cab for Cutie‘s Ben Gibbard, Duckwrth, Elijah Kessler, Don Toliver, Porches, Kenny Mason, Kevin Abstract, Lev, and Glaive. “I hope you enjoy this suburban anthem, growing up, the often-controversial-line between mainstream and underground artists was so defined but now that line has become so blurred I can’t even tell what I
  
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• Bonnaroo announces 2024 streaming schedule

  12-06-2024 18:53 via brooklynvegan.com
  The 2024 edition of Bonnaroo runs from Thursday – Sunday, June 13-16 in Manchester, TN, and if you won’t be there in person, you can stream many sets live. Like they have for the past few years, Hulu will stream the festival on two channels (Fri-Sun, one channel on Thur). It’s available to all subscribers.
  Chappell Roan, Post Malone, T-Pain, GWAR, TV Girl, Gary Clark Jr., Faye Webster, Interpol (playing Antics), Thundercat, Brittany Howard, IDLES, Khruangbin, Red Hot Chili Pepp
  
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• FORM Arcosanti 2024 lineup: Skrillex, Four Tet, Jamie xx, James Blake, Angel Olsen, Kim Gordon, more

  12-06-2024 18:28 via brooklynvegan.com
  Arizona festival FORM returns for its first edition since 2019 on October 4-6 at Arcosanti. They’ve announced the 2024 lineup, which includes Skrillex, Four Tet, Jamie xx, Floating Points, James Blake, Thundercat, Erika de Casier, Mustafa, PinkPantheress, Angel Olsen, Empress Of, FCUKERS, Jessica Pratt, Julianna Barwick, Julie Byrne, Kevin Morby, Kim Gordon, Lonnie Holley, Los Esplifs, Nia Archives, Nicole Miglis (of Hundred Waters), Noname, Oneohtrix Point Never, Shabaka, and more. See it
  
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• Riot Fest 2024 lineup: Fall Out Boy, Slayer, Pavement, NOFX, Offspring Smash, Public Enemy & much more

  12-06-2024 18:17 via brooklynvegan.com
  After revealing that Riot Fest will be moving to the new location of Bridgeview, IL’s SeatGeek Stadium from its longtime home of Chicago’s Douglass Park, the festival has now announced its 2024 lineup. They already revealed in February that the fest will be home to one of the select few reunion shows from Slayer, who headline Sunday, and the other headliners are Fall Out Boy on Friday and Beck and Pavement (their second-announced North American show of 2024) on Saturday. Other notabl
  
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• MoMA PS1 announces 2024 Warm Up lineup

  12-06-2024 18:01 via brooklynvegan.com
  MoMA PS1 took 2022 off from their daytime Warm Up dance/electronic/hip-hop/experimental music series, and brought it back for a limited run last year on Friday evenings in August. They’ve now announced the 2024 edition, which is the 26th season for the series, and remains on Friday nights in the museum’s courtyard, happening from 4-10 PM on July 12, 19, and 26, and August 2, 9, and 16, with a stage designed by Stewart Uoo.
  This year’s lineup includes KIM ANH, Johnny Dynell, Gat
  
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• Fake Fruit announce fall tour, share “Cause of Death” from upcoming LP

  12-06-2024 17:53 via brooklynvegan.com
  Fake Fruit have announced fall tour dates in support of their upcoming second album, Mucho Mistrust. Dates are in October with Spllit and the tour hits Atlanta, Durham, Nashville, Richmond, DC, NYC, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, and Chicago. They’re also on tour now with Omni across the West Coast. All dates are listed below.
  The NYC show is at Union Pool on October 12. Tickets for all fall dates go on sale Friday, June 14 at 10 AM local time.
  Mucho Mistrust is out August 23 and Fake Fru
  
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• God Is An Astronaut announce new album ‘Embers,’ share “Falling Leaves”

  12-06-2024 17:35 via brooklynvegan.com
  Irish post-rock vets God Is An Astronaut have announced their 11th album, Embers, due September 6 via Napalm Records (pre-order). The first single is the eight-minute “Falling Leaves,” a delicate, climactic song that the band calls “a reflective voyage through the brevity of our existence, spanning from inception to demise.” Check it out below.
  GIAA also have upcoming Europe shows/festival appearances in August and “many more shows to be announced soon.” Stay
  
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• Velocity Girl announce remixed/expanded edition of debut LP ‘Copacetic’ (listen to “Audrey’s Eyes”)

  12-06-2024 17:22 via brooklynvegan.com
  Velocity Girl have announced a “remixed and expanded” edition of their 1993 debut album Copacetic which will be out August 16 via Sub Pop (pre-order).
  The album, which at the time was one of Sub Pop’s biggest sellers (behind Nirvana’s Bleach), has been out of print for decades and the band were never happy with the mix. After finding the original 2” tape reel, guitarist/singer Archie Moore went about remixing the album. The result is UltraCopacetic (Copacetic Remixe
  
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• Françoise Hardy, French pop and style icon, has died at 80

  12-06-2024 03:38 via brooklynvegan.com
  Françoise Hardy, the French singer, songwriter, actress and one of the icons of the ’60s yé-yé scene, has died at age 80 after living with lymphatic cancer since 2004. The news came via her son, Thomas Dutronc, who wrote on Instagram “Maman est partie” (“Mom is gone”).
  Born in Paris in 1944, Hardy began writing songs and singing as a teenager and was inspired both by classic chanson and the emergence of rock n’ roll, the two styles th
  
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• Riot Fest leaving Douglass Park, entering RiotLand

  12-06-2024 02:44 via brooklynvegan.com
  Last week, Riot Fest revealed that in addition to two announcements on Wednesday (6/12), there would be a “Riot Fest 2024 Lineup Announcement Eve” tonight (6/11). That’s officially arrived, and with it, a statement from Riot Mike. It says that the festival will be leaving Chicago’s Douglass Park, where it’s been held since 2015. “Allow me to be as clear as the azure sky of the deepest summer — our exodus is solely because of the Chicago Park District,&rd
  
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• Tour news: Judas Priest, Corridor, Dengue Fever, Simalkura, Mk.gee, more

  12-06-2024 00:31 via brooklynvegan.com
  Here’s a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more.
  JUDAS PRIEST
  Judas Priest have announced a fall leg of their Invincible Shield Tour, which is with openers Sabaton. The tour kicks off September 13 in Montreal and wraps up October 26 in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.MK.GEE
  Mk.gee has added a second NYC show to his fall tour.
  III POINTS 2024
  Miami’s III Points has announced the full lineup of its 2024 edition, which includes Massive Attack (their fir
  
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• Martin Shkreli sued for copying & playing forefeited Wu-Tang Clan record

  12-06-2024 00:05 via brooklynvegan.com
  Disgraced “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli was forced to forfeit his one-of-a-kind copy of Wu-Tang Clan‘s Once Upon A Time in Shaolin after being found guilty of securities fraud in 2017; it was sold to an undisclosed buyer in 2021, and acquired by cryptocurrency collective PleasrDAO later that year. If you thought Shkreli’s part in the story of Shaolin was now over, though, you are mistaken; PleasrDAO has now sued Shkreli. In a lawsuit filed on Monday (6/10) in Brooklyn feder
  
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• English Teacher played Bowery Ballroom with Slow Fiction (pics, video, setlist)

  11-06-2024 22:47 via brooklynvegan.com
  Leeds band English Teacher released their great debut LP, This Could Be Texas, in April, and they’ve been on a short US tour supporting it, which stopped in NYC on Monday night (6/10) for a show at Bowery Ballroom. They sounded fantastic playing most of their new album and a few older songs; the highlight of the set came towards the end of the night with “R&B,” which crescendoed with vocalist Lily Fontaine crowd surfing her way through the length of the venue. See their set
  
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