Brooklyn Vegan

1 day ago | brooklynvegan.com | Andrew Sacher

Marquette, Michigan guitar-slingers Liquid Mike have announced a new album, Hell Is An Airport, due September 12. “Airports are these weird, intermediary spaces that have always made me feel like I’m stuck in limbo,” says bandleader Mike Maple. “This album deals a lot with themes surrounding feeling stuck and unable to crawl out.

1 day ago | brooklynvegan.com | Andrew Sacher

Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp have announced the 40th anniversary edition of Farm Aid, and this year it moves to Minneapolis. It goes down on September 20 at Huntington Bak Stadium with sets from all three of its founding artists, plus board member Dave Matthews (with Tim Reynolds), as well as sets from Waxahatchee, Margo Price, Billy Strings, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Trampled by Turtles, Eric Burton (of Black Pumas), Jesse Welles, Madeline Edwards, and more TBA.

2 days ago | brooklynvegan.com | Andrew Sacher

The Northeast US festival Hellfest (which has nothing to do with the French festival of the same name) originally ran between 1997 and 2004, first taking place in the Syracuse area before moving to New Jersey in its final year. It was supposed to happen again in 2005 but was cancelled, and now, 20 years later, veteran metalcore label Trustkill Records (who co-sponsored the festival back in the day) and newer metalcore label Elphyra are bringing it back.

2 days ago | brooklynvegan.com | Andrew Sacher

The legendary NYC punk venue CBGB has been closed since 2006, but the name was revived for the CBGB Festival, which went down in NYC in 2012, 2013, and 2014, and now CBGB Festival returns for another edition in 2025, co-presented by CBGB & OMFUG and The Bowery Presents. While the 2012-2014 editions were multi-day, multi-venue fests that included free shows in Times Square, CBGB Fest 2025 will be a one-day festival that takes place Under the K Bridge in Brooklyn on September 27.

2 days ago | brooklynvegan.com | Andrew Sacher

Rilo Kiley just began their reunion tour at San Luis Obispo’s Fremont Theater last week (5/5), and then played Just Like Heaven this past weekend, and now they’ve announced more reunion tour dates. Their newly-added LA, Berkeley, and San Diego shows are with Waxahatchee, an artist who has been clearly influenced by Rilo Kiley from the start, and they also added two new NYC-area dates and a Northampton, AM show with Wild Belle member turned solo artist Natalie Bergman.