Bear Mountain

The 2016 edition of M for Montreal is coming up later this month (November 16 – 19) and the full lineup has been released and includes Spencer Krug’s Moonface, Baauer, Martha Wainwright, Elephant Stone, Nobunny, The Appleseed Cast, Leif Vollebekk, Tasseomancy and more.

Montreal’s Osheaga Festival is returning this year from August 1 – 3 at Parc Jean-Drapeau. The lineup was just announced and includes Outkast, Jack White, Arctic Monkeys, The Replacements, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Modest Mouse, Local Natives, Haim, SBTRKT (who’s streaming a new EP), Pusha T, Gogol Bordello, Cut Copy, Flume, Chance the Rapper, Gesaffelstein, Danny Brown, Four Tet, Volcano Choir, Against Me…

We’ve mentioned that UK band Hookworms, who we profiled back in April, are one of our “30 Artists Worth Seeing at CMJ.” One of the places you can see them is at the free Friday BrooklynVegan day party (details soon we swear…

Caveman at Webster Hall in April (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) As you probably know by now, CMJ starts today, and local indie pop band Caveman are doing a number of shows for it this year, and all of them (at least what’s currently announced) are free…

Potty Mouth at 285 Kent earlier this month (more by Amanda Hatfield) As discussed, FADER Fort is returning to CMJ this year, and it happens at Williamsburg’s performance space / recording studio Converse Rubber Tracks from October 17 & 18 and at the Eventi Hotel in Chelsea (851 6th Ave) on October 19…

Possibly the longest-running American pop star in existence, Cher released her first new album since 2001 this week, and she’ll be supporting it on a tour that brings her to Brooklyn for a show at Barclays Center on May 9, 2014…

The 2013 CMJ Music Marathon happens from October 15 – 19 at clubs all over New York City. As we’ve been tweeting about at @BVCMJ, tonight (8/27), the CMJ folks held an announcement party at Bowery Electric with live performances from Weekend and Magic Man…

Retro-pop band STRFKR, who released a new album earlier this year, just put out a video for “While I’m Alive.” You can watch it at the bottom of the p…

We were just over in Chicago for tons of Lollapalooza fun, including three full days spent at the festival, and some afterparties we threw too…

Even Goth-rockers love singalongs. After the opening synth chords, the Cure‘s Robert Smith begins to belt out “Just Like Heaven” and is instantly joined by a Grant Park choir numbering in the tens of thousands…