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• Lana Del Rey shares three new songs off 'Blue Banisters' (listen)

  20-05-2021 19:37
  
  Lana's second album of 2021 is due July 4.
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• Gatecreeper’s 10 favorite melodic death metal albums

  16-05-2024 16:10
  
  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
  
  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
  
  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
  
  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
  
  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
  
  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
  
  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
  
  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
  
  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
  
  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
  
  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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• You Blew It! announce ‘Keep Doing What You’re Doing’ shows with Carly Cosgrove & more

  15-05-2024 23:27
  
  You Blew It! are playing 2014’s Keep Doing What You’re Doing at The Fest in October, and ahead of that they’ve announced a fall tour celebrating the album’s 10th anniversary. They went on hiatus in 2018, and then played a few shows in their home state of Florida post-Covid lockdowns, but these will be their first shows outside of Florida since 2017. They’ll have Heart to Gold, FOOTBALLHEAD, and Carly Cosgrove each opening select shows, and you can see all dates belo
  
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• Hannah Mohan (And the Kids) shares “Hell” ft. Lady Lamb from debut solo LP

  15-05-2024 22:40
  
  Western Massachusetts singer-songwriter Hannah Mohan, formerly of And the Kids, is releasing her first solo album, Time Is a Walnut, due out on July 12 via Egghunt Records. It was co-written and produced with Alex Toth of Rubblebucket after a “life changing breakup,” and you can see the cover art and tracklist below.
  The latest single is soaring folk track “Hell,” which features Lady Lamb; watch the video below. “I need to say that this song was written about a time
  
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• Kate Nash announces fall tour, shares “My Bile”

  15-05-2024 21:47
  
  Kate Nash‘s fifth album and first for Kill Rock Stars, 9 Sad Symphonies, is out next month, and she’s shared another single from it, “My Bile.” “‘My Bile’ is about being at your wits’ end and having nothing left to give to society’s expectation of you, and I guess reassessing past behaviors and current priorities,” she says. “You know you’re on empty when you’re spewing up bile. I’ve realized I need more reserves
  
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• Acid Mothers Temple announce fall US tour with Spirit Mother

  15-05-2024 21:38
  
  Japanese psych rock greats Acid Mothers Temple will be on tour in the US this fall with American group Spirit Mother. Dates begin September 27 in San Diego and from there they make their way around the US before heading back to the West Coast, finishing in Costa Mesa on November 4. All dates are listed below.
  The NYC stop on the tour is at TV Eye on October 19, and tickets for all dates go on sale Friday, May 17 at 12 PM noon local time.
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• dear francis (Jennifer of Bleached & Mika Miko) shares first single “touchdown (4-track)”

  15-05-2024 21:08
  
  Jennifer Clavin of Bleached and Mika Miko has a new solo project, dear francis, and she’s shared the first single. “touchdown (4-track)” is a hushed, bare bones folk track, and you can hear it below.
  “I’ve been working on some acoustic songs that I really care about, but I always held back from putting them out because I worried they wouldn’t measure up in some way,” Jennifer writes on Instagram, continuing, “Life got toughand a friend reached out
  
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• Joanna Newsom pays tribute to Steve Albini: “he’s been so enormously important in my life for so many years”

  11-05-2024 07:04
  
  So many musicians have paid tribute to Steve Albini since he unexpectedly passed away from a heart attack on Tuesday (5/7), and that continued when Joanna Newsom paid tribute to him during her set at Salt Lake City’s Kilby Block Party festival on Friday night (5/10). She dedicated “Cosmia,” the closing track of her 2006 Steve Albini-recorded album Ys, to him, and said the following:
  “On the list of all the reasons that he’s my hero, music and music-related stuff doe
  
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• Tour news: Gomez’s Ben Ottewell & Ian Ball, The Cactus Blossoms, Etran De L’Air, Jess Cornelius, more

  11-05-2024 00:45
  
  Here’s a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more.
  BEN OTTEWELL / IAN BALL (GOMEZ)
  Gomez’s Ben Ottewell & Ian Ball will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their band’s sophomore album, Liquid Skin, on a North American tour in October. Dates include NYC’s Le Poisson Rouge on 10/2 with Buddy, and all dates are here.ETRAN DE L’AÏR
  Tuareg rock band Etran de L’Aïr will be on an extensive North American tour this sum
  
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• Shaky Knees 2024 Sunday pics (Foo Fighters, Waxahatchee, Billy Idol, Dinosaur Jr., Men I Trust, more)

  11-05-2024 00:42
  
  The 2024 edition of Atlanta’s Shaky Knees festival wrapped up on a very rainy Sunday (5/5) with a headlining set from Foo Fighters, who played hits from throughout their discography and a couple of songs from their most recent album, last year’s But Here We Are.
  Also performing on Sunday at Shaky Knees were Matt and Kim, Portugal. The Man, Billy Idol, Waxahatchee, Dinosuar Jr., Men I Trust, Nova Twins, Fazerdaze, and more. See pictures by Pasha Birman and Ismael Quintanilla III, Step
  
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• Róisín Murphy announces ‘Hit Parade Remixes’ album, shares “The House (System Olympia Remix)”

  10-05-2024 21:54
  
  Róisín Murphy has announced Hit Parade Remixes which will be out May 24. The album features nine remixes of tracks from last year’s Hit Parade album by Moodyman, Eli Escobar, Baba Ali, Payfone, and more.
  You can listen to the System Olympia remix of “The House” which turns one of the more overtly disco tracks on the record into synthy/housey territory. “I’ve known System Olympia for a couple of years having reached out directly to her because I fell in
  
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• Your Old Droog shares new video, announces Bowery Ballroom show with Ché Noir & Conductor Williams

  10-05-2024 20:35
  
  NYC rapper Your Old Droog has been putting out a bunch of singles lately, and he just made a video for one of them, “DBZ,” which was produced by Madlib and features Method Man and Denzel Curry. The video was directed by William Child, and you can check it out below.
  Droog also annonced a hometown show happening on July 10 at Bowery Ballroom. Edan will be his DJ for the night, and the show also features Buffalo rapper Ché Noir and a beat set by Griselda affiliate Conductor Will
  
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• Watch Foo Fighters dedicate “My Hero” to Steve Albini

  10-05-2024 20:05
  
  Tons of musicians have been paying tribute to Steve Albini following the indie rock icon’s recent death at the age of 61. Dave Grohl, who worked with Albini on Nirvana‘s In Utero, hadn’t shared a message on social media, but he dedicated “My Hero” to Albini at Foo Fighters’ Thursday night (5/9) show in Charlotte.
  “Tonight I’d like to dedicate this song to a friend that we lost the other day, who I’ve known a long, long time,” Grohl said
  
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• Tour news: Starcrawler, Thee Sacred Souls, La Doña, Axis:Sova / Purling Hiss, more

  09-05-2024 00:40
  
  Here’s a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more.
  STARCRAWLER
  Starcrawler will be on the road for much of 2024, including opening for Boris on their fall tour which hits NYC on October 23 at Racket. Before that they’ve got a West Coast headline tour around Punk Rock Bowling. All dates are here.
  THEE SACRED SOULS
  San Diego-based soul trio Thee Sacred Souls will be on tour this summer, beginning at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival on June 22 (
  
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• Efterklang announce new album, share “Plant” ft Mabe Fratti

  08-05-2024 22:38
  
  Danish group Efterklang have announced a new album, Things We Have In Common, which will be out September 27 via City Slang. The album features appearances from Beirut, Mabe Fratti and Sønderjysk Pigekor.
  Things We Have in Common also features the return of Rune Mølgaard, who left the band in 2007 and co-wrote seven of the nine songs on the album. It also was made after Rune left the Mormon church. “It became a completely therapeutic process for me,” says Rune. “W
  
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• Martha Skye Murphy announces debut LP ‘Um’ ft. Claire Rousay & more, shares “Pick Yourself Up”

  08-05-2024 22:07
  
  UK artist Martha Skye Murphy has released some EPs over the last few years, and now she’s announced her debut full-length album, Um, due out on June 14 via AD 93. She co-produced it with Ethan P. Flynn, and it features Claire Rousay on “Forgive,” Roy Montgomery on “Need,” Alex McKenzie of Caroline, and Laurie Nankivell of Squid. You can see the cover art and tracklist below.
  “I wanted the album to feel like this constant tension between being in a very intimat
  
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• Heavenly announce first West Coast shows in 29 years

  08-05-2024 21:56
  
  Indiepop cult heroes Heavenly will be in NYC later in May for their first US shows since the ’90s. They’ve now announced they’ll be back in the fall for their first West Coast shows in 29 years. They’ll play Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and all dates are listed below.
  The Seattle, Portland and San Francisco shows are with Swansea Sound, the indiepop supergroup led by Heavenly‘s Amelia Fletcher and Pooh Sticks‘ Hue
  
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• fantasy of a broken heart announce debut LP, share “Ur Heart Stops”

  08-05-2024 21:54
  
  Having signed to Dots Per Inch Music back in March with the release of the great “AFV,” Al Nardo (Water From Your Eyes, Sloppy Jane) and Bailley Wollowitz (Sloppy Jane) have announced their debut album as fantasy of a broken heart. Feats of Engineering is due out on September 27 via Dots Per Inch, and it features contributions from Nate Amos (This Is Lorelei, Water From Your Eyes) and Jordana. You can see the cover art and tracklist below.
  Feats of Engineering features “AFV&rdq
  
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• Bikini Kill announce openers for summer tour

  08-05-2024 21:04
  
  Bikini Kill begin their North American tour in August, and they’ve announced support for the run. Black Belt Eagle Scout, Sweeping Promises, Death Valley Girls, The Ghost Ease, Cheap Perfume, Blisster, Shadow Show, Retail Simps, Birthday Girl, and Birthday Girl DC each open select shows, and you can see the updated schedule below.
  The NYC shows are at Brooklyn Paramount on September 7 and 8, with Birthday Girl on night one and Sweeping Promises on night two.
  Kathleen Hanna also begins her
  
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• Nirvana, Pixies, Superchunk, Wedding Present, Cloud Nothings, Breeders & more pay tribute to Steve Albini

  08-05-2024 20:11
  
  Following the tragic news that Steve Albini passed away at the age of 61, the music world has been paying tribute to the indie rock icon. Nirvana, Michael Azerrad (who wrote the 1993 Nirvana biography Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana), Pixies, Superchunk, Jack White, The Breeders, Cloud Nothings, Fred Armisen, David Gedge (of Wedding Present, who told us about the album he made with Albini in an interview), Low, Lamb of God, Fucked Up, CLPPNG, Jarvis Cocker, Sadie Dupuis (of Speedy Ortiz),
  
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