Grouper

Ryley Walker recently recorded a Lagniappe Session for Aquarium Drunkard where he covered four very different tracks. One is an instrumental take on one of the best Grouper songs, “Heavy Water / I’d Rather Be Sleep…

The 2016 edition of Moogfest will happen May 19 – 22 in Durham, North Carolina. This year’s lineup includes Explosions in the Sky, Sunn O))), Gary Numan, Blood Orange, Julianna Barwick, The Orb, Holly Herndon, Daniel Lanois, Simian Mobile Disco, Ben Frost, Floating Points, Kode9, Hundred Waters, Empress Of, Mad Professor, Moses Sumney, Mac McCaughan, Lunice, Ryan Hemsworth, Tim Hecker, YACHT and more…

The year-end lists keep coming. Today, NPR Music published their 50 Favorite Albums of 2015 list. As usual, it’s all over the map genre-wise, with classical, jazz, electronic, rap, mainstream pop, lo-fi DIY, indie rock, folk, country, metal an…

Grouper‘s Liz Harris also has a band called Helen with Eternal Tapestry‘s Jed Bideman, and Scott Simmons. They’re releasing their debut album, The Original Faces, on September 4 via Kranky, and first single “Motorcycle” i…

The upcoming Big Ears Festival happening March 27-29 in Knoxville, TN, has been expanded once again. Like in past years, the festival will include a film portion, and a selection of that has been curated by filmmaker/musician Jim Jarmusch and Michael Gira, whose respective bands SQURL and Swans were already o…

The lineup has been expanded for the 2015 Big Ears Festival, happening March 27-29 in Knoxville, TN. New additions include psych pioneers Silver Apples, former Battles frontman Tyondai Braxton (performing HIVE), Syrian pop singer Omar Souleyman, folk singer Ryley Walker, guitar wiz William Tyler, modern classical collective Bing & Ruth, electronic/ambient musician Loscil, cabaret singer Little Annie, and Chinese composer Wu …

The Mexican Summer label is curating a cultural festival New Myths (not to be confused with the Brooklyn band of that name), which will happen March 13 – 15 in Marfa, Texas…

and Bill Pearis We love year-end lists — reading them, making them, arguing about them. BrooklynVegan editors Andrew Sacher and Bill Pearis have once again figured out their favorite albums of the year which you can check out, with commentary, below…

The Knife @ Terminal 5 4/30/2014 BrooklynVegan photographer Amanda Hatfield shoots a ton of shows for BV every year, and 2014 was no different…

Tiny Mix Tapes posted their Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2014, and as TMT lists usually are, it’s a pretty eccentric one with a lot of stuff that wasn’t making everyone’s list this year…