Majical Cloudz

This week’s Notable Releases include Phoebe Bridgers’ must-hear debut album, Rapsody’s long-awaited sophomore album, Chelsea Wolfe’s latest triumph, and more.

This is the third album for Belave which is a collaboration between Welsh and Matthew E. Duffy. Welsh is on tour with Ought’s Tim Darcy in September.

It also has writing credits from Majical Cloudz, David Longstreth, Rostam and Andre 3000.

Two Montreal artists offer up tributes to the late Suicide frontman.

Stream the 8-song album in full or download it (name your price).

Devon Welsh is going solo, and Matt is starting a project called The Dahlia.

It was a double dose of Montreal electronic duos at Music Hall of Williamsburg on Tuesday (1/19). Majical Cloudz brought the feels — and songs from last year’s acclaimed Are You Alone……

Majical Cloudz start their tour with She-Devils tonight (1/15) in Toronto and they’ve also just released an EP, titled Wait & See, of songs left over from the Are You Alone……

& Amanda Hatfield Every year is a good year for new music, but 2015 felt like the best one in a while. It was an especially great year for major label rap, after 2014 was an especially slow one, but it was good for plenty more than that too: folk, post-punk, indie pop, noise, art pop, punk, etc…

The second episode of BrooklynVegan’s “In Residence” show on Spotify is now live. It’s part two of our 2015 wrap-up where BV editors Bill Pearis, Andrew Sacher and site founder Dave play more of their favorite songs of the year, and discuss such topics as favorite live bands, overused words in band names, comebacks, and what we’re looking forward to in 2016…