Shout Out Louds

Shout Out Louds played their second NYC show in two months on Friday night (5/10) at Webster Hall. The poppy Swedes — who also played one of the BV day parties at SXSW this year — are in the midst of a North American tour supporting their tuneful new album, Optica, but made time for older favorites like “Impossible,” “Tonight I Have to Leave It” and “Very Loud” as well…

today in NYC * Megan Hilty @ Joe’s Pub * Maceo Parker @ Blue Note * Slavic Soul Party @ Barbes * Ben Holmes Quartet @ Barbes * Furthur @ The Capitol Theatre * Generationals, Future of What @ Rock Shop * Bleached, Hunters, Ex Cops @ Bowery Ballroom * Splashh, Beverly, Prissy Clerks @ Shea Stadium * Steve Coleman and Five Elements @ The Stone * Barren Girls, Sleepies, Advaeta @ Death By Audio * White Prism, Home Video, Desert Stars @ Glasslands * Oberhofer (Les Yeux), Carmen Villain, Splashh @ Pianos * The Gantry, The Wilderness of Manitoba @ Mercury Lounge * The Warlocks, Cosmonaut, The Vandelles @ Mercury Lounge * Goat, Holy Wave, Bear in Heaven (DJ) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * Jay & Silent Bob’s Super Groovy Cartoon Movie @ Best Buy Theater * Leif Vollebekk, My Name is You, Caroline Rose @ Rockwood Music Hall * Brazos, Friend Roulette, Doug Keith, Boyd Shropshire @ Cameo Gallery * A Brief Comedy About Death, Peopling, Sam Mickens, Enforcer @ Silent Barn * The Mean Season, Dan Abraham, Crime and Punishment w/ Kate Berlant @ Cake Shop * O’Death, The Hungry March Band, Wild Yaks, Amour Obscur @ Le Poisson Rouge * The Black Furs, Owen McCarthy, Pink Mexico, Chris Ahkao, Nice Apartment @ Pianos * The Hollows, Alana Amram and The Rough Gems, Rocket and the Ghost, Balthrop, Alabama @ Brooklyn Bowl Snoop Lion is doing an in-store signing of his new album and film, both titled Reincarnated, at VP Records retail store (170-21 Jamaica Avenue) in Jamaica Queens today from 5 – 7 PM…

Photographer Dylan Johnson’s second and third day at SXSW were spent at the Kitsune and BV Parties respectively, capturing Chrome Sparks at The Tap Room (on 3/14) followed and The Thermals at The Main during the BV Day Party (on 3/15, more pictures HERE)…

The Main was packed for our Friday SXSWS day party (3/15). That includes the the actual stage, as all 23 members of The Polyphonic Spree on hand to headline…

As you know, BrooklynVegan is returning to Austin for SXSW this year and throwing four days of day parties at The Main & The Jr aka 603 Red River Street at the corner of 6th aka the old Emo’s location…

Shout Out Louds @ Webster Hall in 2010 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Along with the announcement of Shout Out Louds on the lineup of 2013 edition of Sasquatch (May 24 in Washington) comes word that the Swedish group will headline NYC’s Webster Hall on May 10 in addition to the Brooklyn show they play at the smaller Music Hall of Williamsburg two months earlier (which we’re giving away tickets for)…

Says the PROn the heels of a highly successful, critically acclaimed sold-out 2012 festival, the Sasquatch! Music Festival unveils its 2013 lineup, which once again features 4 days of music…

As mentioned, Sweden’s delicate folk act Little Children will be in NYC to open for Shout Out Louds at Music Hall of Williamsburg on March 11…

Like his Swedish contemporaries Loney Dear and Jose Gonzalez, Stockholm resident Linus Lutti, using the Little Children moniker, makes the kind of hushed, spooky folk that exudes a wintry aura, and the sound of fingers scraping across the fretboard are an instrument in itself…

Swedish group Shout Out Louds are gearing up for the release of their fourth full-length album, Optica, due out on February 26 via Merge Records…