Bill Pearis

2 days ago | brooklynvegan.com | Bill Pearis

Jonathan Richman is back with a new album, Only Frozen Sky Anyway, which will be out July 16 via his own Blue Arrow Records. Like 2021’s Want to Visit My Inner House?, this one was co-produced by Talking Heads‘ Jerry Harrison, who, before joining that band, was a member of Jonathan’s band The Modern Lovers.

2 days ago | brooklynvegan.com | Bill Pearis

OSEES will release a new album, Abomination Revealed at Last, on August 8 via frontman John Dwyer’s Deathgod Records (fka Castle Face). “Well this album just channelled out of the mist of atrocities swirling around the planet right now,” Dwyer says. “AI empathy, genocides, social media data collection & addiction, the alignment of tech billionaires with the fascist overlords and their armada of dogs, civilians being kidnapped by bootlicking thugs, the death of due process…the list goes on and on.

3 days ago | brooklynvegan.com | Bill Pearis

Here’s a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more. LYLE LOVETT AND HIS ACOUSTIC GROUPLyle Lovett will take his Acoustic Group on the road this summer and fall and he’s just announced a new leg of the tour, hitting Durham, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Shreveport and more. TV ON THE RADIOTV On The Radio are playing a special show Under the K Bridge in Brooklyn in September with a lineup that includes Flying Lotus, Sudan Archives, Moor Mother, SPELLLING and more TBA.

3 days ago | brooklynvegan.com | Bill Pearis

King Crimson founder and popular YouTuber Robert Fripp is expanding his empire and joined Cameo, the service where you can pay famous people to make short video greeting for you. (H/t Stereogum’s Instagram.) It’s $99 to get a video made and here’s the description from his Cameo profile:Fripp’s personalized videos are a treat for any devoted Crimson or Fripp enthusiast.

3 days ago | brooklynvegan.com | Bill Pearis

Following a string of EPs and opening slots for Slowdive, Whirr, Panchiko and more, rising shoegaze artist Wisp has now announced her debut album, If Not Winter, which is out August 1 via Interscope. The album includes recent singles “Sword” and “Get Back to Me” and the just-released “Save Me Now,” which Wisp says “represents the desperation for attention, sometimes mistaken as love, when you are in a lonely and vulnerable place.