“There’s nothing quite like playing our hometown,” The Smashing Pumpkins wrote on Instagram following their Lollapalooza -headlining set on Friday. As mentioned, they had a few guests on hand for the ...

The Olivia Tremor Control were one of the bands most emblematic of the Elephant 6 collective, which late co-founders Bill Doss and Will Cullen Hart helped found. Doss’ death in 2012 put any further ...

Hello from the mesquite-scented, hazy, hot and humid dog days of Brooklyn. This week I review four new albums: Tricky goes “indie” with new collaborators for his best album in eons; Yard Act pivot on ...

We’re officially halfway through 2026, and it’s already been a fantastic year for new music. To mark the occasion, we’ve put together a list of our 50 favorite albums released between January 1 and ...

Indie Basement is a weekly column on BrooklynVegan focusing on classic indie and alternative artists, “college rock,” and new and current acts who follow a similar path. There are reviews of new ...

Riot Fest returns to Chicago’s Douglass Park on September 18-20, and this year’s lineup has been announced. It’s headlined by Tool, Twenty One Pilots, Pierce the Veil, and Alanis Morissette. This year ...

One weekend down of Coachella 2026, and one more to go. Having announced set times for weekend 2, they’ve now revealed the livestream schedule. Like on weekend one, seven stages will stream live on ...

Hip hop festival Rolling Loud has announced the lineup for its only US edition of 2026, which happens at Orlando’s Camping World Stadium from May 8-10. The headliners are Playboi Carti, Don Toliver, ...

The Acacia Strain – You Are Safe From God Here (Rise) For me, the best death metal feels like a location, a literal spatial world made accessible through music. There’s something about Ego Dissolution ...

In a year that had no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the first time since 1990, rap thrived in so many other ways. This list of the 25 best rap albums of 2025 includes grand ...

Have you noticed that guitars are back? I’m being a little facetious, but rock and even punk has has been steadily climbing its way back to the mainstream and we felt that more this year than we have ...