The New Pornographers

The New Pornographers and Thao & the Get Down Stay Down played a packed Prospect Park (pics, setlist)

The New Pornographers played a free Celebrate Brooklyn! show at Prospect Park Bandshell on Saturday (7/11). The last time they did this was in 2005, part of a Canada Day celebration…

Polaris 2015 Long List revealed (Drake, New Pornographers, DFA1979, Caribou, Alvvays, White Lung, Viet Cong, more)

The long list for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize, Canada’s annual award for a great album, has been announced. It includes Drake, The New Pornographers, Death From Above 1979, Caribou, Alvvays, White Lung, Viet Cong, METZ, Cold Specks, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld, Patrick Watson, Absolutely Free, Badbadnotgood & Ghostface Killah, Braids, Tobias Jesso Jr an…

Andrew Bird covers New Pornographers on new compilation (watch the video), playing NYC before European tour dates

Andrew Bird is one of the contributors to a new compilation titled Good People Rock which benefits Montreal-based charity organization Yellow Bird Project…

Celebrate Brooklyn! at Prospect Park 2015 lineup (Sylvan Esso, New Pornographers, Big K.R.I.T., tUnE-yArDs & more)

We’ve known about Celebrate Brooklyn!‘s summer slate of 2015 ticketed benefit shows at Prospect Park — including Modest Mouse, Interpol and Willie Nelson — for a while and now they’ve announced their free show schedule…

Sleater-Kinney, Angel Olsen, Hanni El Khatib, AlunaGeorge, THEESatisfaction & more added to Sasquatch! 2015 lineup

Sleater-Kinney, who first said they weren’t playing festivals but then were announced for Primavera Sound, have now also been added to home stage festival Sas…

The New Pornographers touring this summer, including Celebrate Brooklyn! show in Prospect Park (dates)

Canadian power pop royalty The New Pornographers will be touring this summer in July, a trek that wraps up in Chicago for the Pitchfork Festival…

NXNE announces initial 2015 lineup

The 2015 edition of Toronto’s NXNE Festival happens June 17 – 21 at venues all over the Ontario capital. The initial lineup has just been announced and includes Action Bronson, The New Pornographers, Angel Olsen, Zola Jesus, Om, Rae Sremmurd, Deafheaven, Best Coast, Blonde Redhead, Iceage, Real Estate, Lower Dens, A Place To Bury Strangers, Pentagram, White Lung and more…

Sasquatch! 2015 lineup (Kendrick Lamar, Robert Plant, War On Drugs, St Vincent, Modest Mouse, Ryan Adams, more)

Sasquatch! Music Festival will return to Quincy, WA on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-25, at The Gorge. This year’s lineup includes Kendrick Lamar, Robert Plant, Modest Mouse, Lana Del Rey, Ryan Adams, The Decemberists, Tame Impala,…

Primavera Sound 2015 lineup announced

The 2015 Primavera Sound Festival goes down in Barcelona, Spain from May 28 – 30. We knew The Strokes and recently reunited shoegazers Ride were playing and now the line-up is being announced via the festival’s mobile app, which is a not-so fun 8-bit game you have to play to reveal names…

Our Favorite Albums & Tracks of 2014

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…
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