Brooklyn Vegan

Established in 2004, BrooklynVegan is a vibrant, independent blog based in New York City that covers a wide range of music genres along with international music updates. The blog offers insights on album releases, concert reviews, photography, festival highlights, tour schedules, industry gossip, and streaming content for songs and albums. In addition to music, you'll find articles about comedy, television, films, and burlesque. Each post encourages reader interaction through comments and social media. We also host various live events and produce a radio show for SiriusXMU.

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Watch Toyah & Robert Fripp revisit AC/DC's "Back in Black"

4 days ago | brooklynvegan.com | Bill Pearis

This week on Toyah and Robert Fripp‘s Sunday Lunch YouTube series, they’re heading back to the innocent days of 2022 and their kitchen cover of AC/DC‘s classic, “Back in Black.” Robert is in his schoolboy best a la Angus Young, as is Toyah though she seems more inspired by Britney Spears as she shoots rubber bands at the camera. Watch that and AC/DC performing their original below. Pick up AC/DC music and merch in the BV shop.
Alf Clausen, 'Simpsons' composer, dead at 84

5 days ago | brooklynvegan.com | Bill Pearis

Alf Clausen, the TV and film composer who most famously worked on The Simpsons from 1990 through 2017, died On May 29 at age 84. He had been living with Parkinson’s Disease for the last decade.
Tour news: Crowbar / Eyehategod, Sigur Rós, Smerz, Laufey, Public Service Broadcasting, more

6 days ago | brooklynvegan.com | Bill Pearis

Here’s a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more. CROWBAR / EYEHATEGODCrowbar and Eyehategod have announced a co-headlining tour, kicking off August 8 in Tampa and wrapping up August 30 in New Orleans, with the bands swapping playing order depending on the city. NYC will be Rocks Off Concert Cruise on August 14 with Crowbar headlining. LAUFEYLaufey‘s new album A Matter of Time arrives in August, and she’s announced a North American tour supporting it.
Our Favorite Songs of the Week (playlist)

6 days ago | brooklynvegan.com | Bill Pearis

Between our daily coverage, our Notable Releases and Indie Basement columns, and our monthly punk and rap roundups, we post tons of new music all the time here on BrooklynVegan. In an effort to keep track of all the new music we’re excited about, we’ve been posting a new playlist each week with many of the songs we love that were (mostly) released that week.
Pavement will be playing more shows according to Spiral Stairs

6 days ago | brooklynvegan.com | Bill Pearis

When Pavement played NYC’s Sony Hall in October, 2025 as part of the NY Film Festival, Bob Nastanovich told the crowd at the end of the night that it would be the band’s “last show for a long time.” Not as long as he may have thought at the time, though, as this week Pavement were announced as one of the headliners at Austin’s Levitation festival in September. And it looks like that won’t be the band’s upcoming show, either, according to Spiral Stairs, aka band co-founder Scott Kannberg.
Listen to the Pavement movie soundtrack

6 days ago | brooklynvegan.com | Bill Pearis

The Pavement movie, PAVEMENTS, goes into wider release today, hitting theaters across major cities US and Canada, and with that the official soundtrack is out digitally. It includes recordings from the Slanted! Enchanted! jukebox musical that was staged for the movie, dialogue clips from the film (including the fake biopic Range Life), live and rehearsal tapes from the band’s 2021 reunion tour, and Snail Mail’s cover of “Shoot the Singer” performed live at the Pavement Museum in NYC.
Indie Basement (5/30): Ty Segall, Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles, CIVIC, more

6 days ago | brooklynvegan.com | Bill Pearis

May has been a very solid month for albums and it goes out strong. I review seven: Ty Segall, Low‘s Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles, CIVIC, Sally Shapiro, SAVAK, The Minus 5, and ravey supergroup Demise of Love (aka Daniel Avery, Working Men’s Club and Ghost Culture). This week’s Indie Basement Classic looks back at Super Furry Animals‘ fantastic second album. Over in Notable Releases, Andrew spins new ones from Garbage, The National’s Matt Berninger, Aesop Rock, and more.
The Cure share Daniel Avery remix of "DRONE:NODRONE" from 'Mixes of a Lost World'

6 days ago | brooklynvegan.com | Bill Pearis

The Cure are releasing Mixes of a Lost World, the remix companion to last year’s great Songs of a Lost World, on June 13 (preorder) and they’ve just shared Daniel Avery‘s rework of “DRONE:NODRONE.” The original is one of the heaviest, most searing songs on the album; in Avery’s hands it’s still heavy, but he makes it a serious dancefloor banger by bringing the funk elements that were there under all those guitars to the forefront and adding clubby beats and his signature atmospheric style.
Will Johnson & surviving Magnolia Electric Co mems team for new single and tour: hear "The Big Beast"

1 week ago | brooklynvegan.com | Bill Pearis

Will Johnson (Centro-matic, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit) and Jason Molina’s Magnolia Electric Co were set to tour together in 2009 — the same year they released the collab album Molina and Johnson — but dates were canceled due to Molina’s struggles with alcoholism.
BV interview: Ty Segall talks going "pop" for new LP 'Possession,' playing piano, touring with Primus, pet portraits & more

1 week ago | brooklynvegan.com | Bill Pearis

Ty Segall came up through the late-’00s West Coast garage-psych scene that also gave us the Oh Sees, The Intelligence, White Fence, and more. For a while, he was matching those artists’ output with a constant barrage of albums, including solo releases and through his various side projects. These days, 17 years since releasing his debut album, Ty is slowing down a little. He’s married, has a kid, and moved his Harmonizer studio to the family’s new home near Pasadena.