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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…

You can argue about *real* emo forever, but you have to admit these songs by Built to Spill, Foo Fighters, Archers of Loaf, and more are pretty emo…

Hookworms’ MB @ BV CMJ 2013 (more by Chris La Putt) Hookworms just released their terrific new album The Hum which further’s the band’s motorik psych, taking last year’s adrenalized “Radio Tokyo” single (which they re-recorded for this LP) and further stepping on the gas…

Edan and Josh of DbA on the final night (more by PSquared) Death by Audio closed last weekend after seven years in existence. We said our goodbyes already, but we thought we’d offer up a roundup of our coverage and other tributes to the space…

John Lee and Vernon Chatman have been weirding out late night television viewers for 10 years as the primary creative forces behind PFFR: first with not-for-kids kids show Wonder Showzen, then with the hallucinogenic, hard-to-look-at Xavier: Renegade Angel and, most recently, on the Southern Gothic soap opera The Heart, She Holler…

It was a sad day when East Village Radio signed off back in May, shutting down their 1st Ave storefront studio, and their many live & recorded radio shows along with it (Invisible Oranges included)…

Fat White Family @ BV CMJ 2014 (more by Chris La Putt) It’s been a week since Fat White Family‘s first stint at CMJ and still, the feverish feeling remains…

CMJ 2014 is now just a fading handstamp on our inner wrist (and maybe a slight ring in our ears). We’ve posted photos from our various parties and other shows we caught but we thought, before we put the fest to bed entirely, we’d pick our favorite performers from the week…

NOTE: You can also see our events with RSVPs & tickets HERE Pity Sex at last year’s BrooklynVegan show at Baby’s (more by Amanda Hatfield)FRIDAY, Oct 24 @ NOON @ Baby’s — FREE (RSVP) 12:00 Dilly Dally

‘I grabbed hold of it, and the rhetoric of change was rock and roll, the platform for change was rock and roll, the desirability, the inevitability of change was rock and roll…