Hookworms

Hookworms announce new LP, 'The Hum' (stream a track)

Hookworms @ BVCMJ 2013 (more by Chris La Putt) Leeds psychedelic screamers Hookworms have announced details of their new album. It’s called The Hum and will be out on Weird World / Domino on November 11…

Menace Beach (includes mems of Sky Larkin & Hookworms) released an EP, ready new single (streams)

Menace Beach are from Leeds, the same English City that that also birthed Hookworms and Eagulls (and Gang of Four and Sisters of Mercy). Named after an old NES game, the band’s sound owes a little to the ’90s too, with sludgy guitar poured over some relentlessly catchy pop with the always-appearling male-female vocal combo courtesy main members Ryan Needham and Liza Violet…

Our Favorite Albums of 2013

and Bill Pearis We’ve done some year-end lists in the past at BrooklynVegan, though you might notice that we’re not the most consistent with them…

The Guardian's 40 Best Albums of 2013

British newspaper The Guardian just finished publishing its Best Albums of 2013 list, after having rolled it out over the past couple weeks…

NME names its Top 50 LPs & tracks of 2013 (guess who's #1?)

UK music weekly NME has just published its end-of-year issue, with their Top 50 LPs and Tracks of 2013. As for the albums list, we’ll let you read on to find out what their #1 pick is, but it might just be the one NME called “absolutely and unarguably the most incredible album of career” and “the greatest record of the last dec…

BV Friday CMJ Day Party at Baby's All Right in pics (Speedy Ortiz, Omar Souleyman, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, The Head & the Heart and more)

New Williamsburg venue Baby’s All Right, after canceling CMJ shows scheduled for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (they found them other venues), had its opening day Friday (10/18) with our free BrooklynVegan day party, the first of two parties we threw at that venue for CMJ…

BrooklynVegan hosts FREE CMJ shows Friday and Saturday (eighteen artist lineup -- free drinks & tattoos)

Okay, so we might be a little late with this announcement (and someone cancelled while I was writing this post), but we are now very excited (and relieved) to finally announce most of the lineups for our 2013 BrooklynVegan CMJ parties…

Hookworms are here for CMJ, playing five shows including a BV day party (dates, streams)

We’ve mentioned that UK band Hookworms, who we profiled back in April, are one of our “30 Artists Worth Seeing at CMJ.” One of the places you can see them is at the free Friday BrooklynVegan day party (details soon we swear…

30 artists to see at CMJ 2013 (Ex Hex, Hop Along, Yuck, Courtney Barnett, Eagulls, Schoolboy Q, Shine 2009 & more)

and Bill Pearis Hop Along at Saint Vitus in September (more by Vladislav Grach) Sure, NYC has a lot of great shows almost every night of the week…

FADER Fort lineup & schedule announced (Potty Mouth, Bear Mountain, Vince Staples, SZA, The Internet & more)

Potty Mouth at 285 Kent earlier this month (more by Amanda Hatfield) As discussed, FADER Fort is returning to CMJ this year, and it happens at Williamsburg’s performance space / recording studio Converse Rubber Tracks from October 17 & 18 and at the Eventi Hotel in Chelsea (851 6th Ave) on October 19…
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