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• GerritsenBeachers are ready for summer!

  23-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyTime to break out the sunscreen!
  Hundred of kids marched through the streets of Gerritsen Beach during the annual Kiddie Beach Parade on June 17.
  The celebratory parade is how the close-knit neighborhood marks the unofficial start to summer, when kids are out of school and get to splash all day in the water at the local Kiddie Beach.This year, however, Mother Nature had a different idea in mind for how the kids would make a splash
  
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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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• Tour news: Rolling Stones, Ringo Deathstarr, Maria Bamford, Juan Wauters, more

  30-04-2024 00:18 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Here’s a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more.
  RINGO DEATHSTARR
  Long-running Austin shoegazers Ringo Deathstarr begin a US tour on Thusday, with dates in May and July. There are two NYC shows on the same night: May 18 at Berlin with Ovlov and The Veldt, and a late Rocks Off Concert Cruise on May 18 with Ovlov.REDD KROSS / DALE CROVER
  Redd Kross have announced their self-titled eighth album, which will be out June 28 via In the Red. It&rsqu
  
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• Sick New World 2024 pics & video (System of a Down, Slipknot, Slowdive, Duster, Knocked Loose, more)

  29-04-2024 23:55 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Vegas festival Sick New World returned for its 2024 edition on Saturday (4/27) at Las Vegas Festival grounds. System of a Down headlined, playing their first show in nearly a year, and also performing were Slipknot (who warmed up with a surprise California show a couple of days earlier), Knocked Loose (who brought out Poppy to join them on their new collaborative single “Suffocate”, giving it its live debut), A Perfect Circle, Alice in Chains, Lamb of God, Primus, Bad Omens (who also
  
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• Fishbone replaced by Puddles Pity Party on Primus/Coheed tour, still playing No Values fest

  29-04-2024 22:24 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Following public disputes between Fishbone members regarding lineup changes and the rights to the band’s name, Fishbone are no longer on the upcoming Primus and Coheed & Cambria tour. Primus posted that the band is off the tour “due to unforeseen circumstances,” and a post on the Fishbone Instagram claims that the band was “removed” from the tour and says “that was not our decision.” “While we were looking forward to it, there are many unwritte
  
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• Bratmobile played their first NYC show in 20+ years w/ Downtown Boys & cumgirl8 (pics, setlist, video)

  29-04-2024 21:59 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Riot Grrrl greats Bratmobile played their first shows in 20 years last summer in California, and have kept the reunion going. They were on the East Coast this past weekend for their first NYC-area shows in two decades, playing Tubby’s Kingston on Friday and Brooklyn’s Warsaw on Saturday. Both shows were with Downtown Boys and Warsaw also had cumgirl8 on the bill.
  The current lineup of the band includes original members Allison Wolfe and Molly Newman, along with Tiger Trap‘
  
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• Mötley Crüe seem to be doing something at Bowery Ballroom next week

  29-04-2024 21:35 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Mötley Crüe recently released “Dogs of War,” their first single in five years (and first without co-founding guitarist Mick Mars), and they’re about to begin a tour that will have them out through the summer. The run begins at Atlantic City’s Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena on May 3 and 4, which are the only NYC-area stops, but it seems the band may be doing something in NYC after all. An Instagram post from them has art reading “1981,” “Live @ T
  
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• Stagecoach 2024 pics & video: Post Malone, Lana Del Rey, Willie Nelson, Reba McEntire, more

  29-04-2024 21:02 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Stagecoach, Coachella‘s country sibling festival, just wrapped up its 2024 edition at Indio, CA’s Empire Polo Club over the weekend (4/26-4/28); if you weren’t there, maybe you streamed it live. See pictures from the whole weekend below.
  One of the biggest takeaways from the fest was Friday headliner Eric Church‘s polarizing, gospel influenced set, complete with a backing choir, which drew both praise and criticism from those who caught it. Variety reports:Rather than roc
  
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• ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Live in Concert’ tour this fall (dates)

  29-04-2024 20:23 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Composer Daniel Pemberton will be taking his score for 2023’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse on tour this year, where the score will be played live against a screening of the film, featuring “an orchestra, a scratch DJ on turntables, percussion and electronic instruments.”
  “Across The Spider-Verse is probably the most exciting, ground breaking and impactful score I’ve written,” says Pemberton. “I’ve always believed that there should be no barr
  
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• blink-182 are taking the “what the fuck is up, Denny’s?!” band on tour

  27-04-2024 18:55 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  After referencing the viral moment in their own video, blink-182 are now taking the “what the fuck is up, Denny’s?!” band on tour. For the uninitiated, the band is called Live Without, and the Texas-based band are opening the shows in San Antonio and Fort Worth, which also have Pierce the Veil on the bill.
  The tour also includes a show with Drain in Denver, and the NYC show (Citi Field on July 21) is with Pierce the Veil and EKKSTACY. Tickets for the tour are on sale now. All d
  
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• Tour news: Explosions in the Sky, Dan Deacon, David J, 12 Rods, Sum 41 / Many Eyes, more

  27-04-2024 00:11 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Here’s a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more.
  DAN DEACON
  Dan Deacon has a few shows lined up this spring and summer, hitting Dallas and San Antonio in May, NYC in June (Racket on 6/7), San Francisco in July and Los Angeles in August.
  DAVID J (BAUHAUS / LOVE & ROCKETS)
  Bauhaus and Love & Rockets co-founder David J will be on a West Coast tour in May in support of his new solo compilation Tracks From the Attic, playing Portland, Seattle, Oakl
  
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• Stream Stagecoach 2024 live (schedule & set times)

  27-04-2024 00:04 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Now that two weekends of Coachella are behind us, it’s the turn of that festival’s country sibling, Stagecoach, to take over Indio, CA’s Empire Polo Club. This year’s lineup includes headliners Miranda Lambert, Eric Church, and Morgan Wallen, as well as Willie Nelson, The Beach Boys (sans Brian Wilson), Dwight Yoakam, Leon Bridges, Paul Cauthen, Hailey Whitters, Charley Crockett, Vincent Neil Emerson, Charles Wesley Godwin, Allison Russell, Drayton Farley, Brittney Spence
  
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• Roman Candle pulled from SeeYouSpaceCowboy tour

  26-04-2024 23:00 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  SeeYouSpaceCowboy just announced a summer tour with The Callous Daoboys and Roman Candle on all dates, and select shows with Omerta and Blind Equation. They’ve now announced that Roman Candle have been pulled from the tour. “After hearing your concerns,” they write, “Roman Candle will no longer be on the tour. Tickets available now – more info to come.” See updated dates below.
  Earlier this year, Roman Candle parted ways with their bassist, Nico Borgia, follow
  
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• Sega Bodega announces North American tour

  26-04-2024 22:11 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Artist and producer Sega Bodega released his third album, Dennis, today (4/26) via his new label ambient tweets; stream it below. He’s also announced a fall North American tour supporting it, beginning in Vancouver on September 28 and running through October. See all dates below.
  The Brooklyn show wraps up the run, on October 20 at Knockdown Center. Tickets are on sale now.
  He’ll also join his frequent collaborator Björk for a Brooklyn event in May on May 10 Under the K Bridge.
  
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• Fugazi store opening on the Lower East Side (no, not that Fugazi)

  26-04-2024 00:41 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  No, Ian MacKaye has not finally decided to sell band merch. This Fugazi is the streetwear brand and are opening their first brick and mortar store in the Lower East Side this Saturday (4/27). Fugazi New York is opening at 55 Canal St, along with Le Gaz, “a community café focused on specialty in-house coffees and teas of various origins, namely Vietnamese and Peruvian.”
  The brand, which sells jackets, hats, t-shirts (that says “FUGAZI” in big type), and loafers, amo
  
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• Black Country, New Road played Brooklyn Paramount with Horsegirl & Camera Picture (pics, setlist)

  25-04-2024 22:46 via brooklynvegan.com
  
  Black Country, New Road are on a post-Coachella East Coast tour, which stopped in NYC on Wednesday night (4/24) for a show at Brooklyn Paramount. Spread out across the big stage in a semi-circle, the band still sounded cohesive, delivering gorgeous harmonies as they played songs from last year’s live album and concert film, Live at Bush Hall. They also played a few of the newer, as yet unreleased songs they’ve been testing out on the road this year. See their setlist below.
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