John Roderick
The Presidents of the United States of America released their first album since 2008, going on tour (dates & stream)
Veteran quirk rockers The Presidents of the United States of America had planned to be done recording music after 2008’s These Are the Good Times People, but as drummer Jason Finn puts it, they “accidentally did it again” with this year’s PledgeMusic-funded Kudos …
Tim Harrington, Tom Scharpling, Jim James, Dave Hill, Scott Aukerman & more covered "The Super Bowl Shuffle"
Some of you may remember “The Super Bowl Shuffle,” a Sugarhill Gang style rap single recorded by the Chicago Bears Shufflin’ Crew at the tail end of 1985…
watch Mates of State play a new song (a BrooklynVegan Soundwave Session), part of Barsuk @ Bumbershoot (pics)
Husband-and-wife indie pop duo Mates of State stopped by the Toyota Soundwave tent at Bumbershoot in Seattle to play us a few songs. One of those songs was a new track called “Now We’re Gonna Get It” which we caught on video with the help of director Paul Greenhouse…
The Long Winters performing 'When I Pretend to Fall' in full at CMJ; John Roderick dueled w/ Dave Hill @ Bumbershoot (pics)
While The Long Winters haven’t released an album since 2006’s Putting the Days to Bed, the band has never officially broken up, though it’s mainly frontman John Roderick at this point…
Bumbershoot this weekend, look for BrooklynVegan & Barsuk in the Soundwave tent (schedule)
Like we did at Firefly, Lollapalooza, and Outside Lands, BrooklynVegan will be taking over 2-3 hours of the Soundwave tent each day at Bumbershoot in Seattle this Labor Day Weekend…
BOAT releasing new album ++ covers of all its songs by John Roderick, Throw Me the Statue & others (MP3, streams)
DOWNLOAD: BOAT – Inside an Aquarium (MP3)
Seattle self-effacing indie rockers BOAT will release Pretend to Be Brave via Magic Marker on March 12…
John Roderick playing The Rock Shop TONIGHT
“Just out here showing NYC how it’s done.” – @JohnRoderick
Long Winters frontman, songwriter and Twitter funnyman John Roderick is in NYC helping out John Hodgman with his audiobook…
Jonathan Coulton is touring with John Roderick (dates); approves of fan-made video (watch)
Jonathan Coulton at Williamsburg Waterfront in 2011 (more by David Andrako)
Geek rocker Jonathan Coulton released his newest album, Artificial Heart (produced by They Might Be Giants’ John Flansburgh), last year and is continuing to tour in support of it this year…
Aimee Mann & John Roderick ended their tour in NYC (pics)
Aimee Mann‘s concert at Carnegie Hall in New York on Saturday night (Jan. 28) was for the birds. Or, at least, birdcalls.
The singer/songwriter has humbly admitted in the past that crafting small talk on stage between songs is slightly beyond her comfort zone…
a John Roderick show, his guitar on eBay, more Aimee Mann & They Might Be Giants dates, a new Jonathan Coulton video
The Long Winters frontman John Roderick will play a few shows with Aimee Mann in January followed by a headlining show at Mercury Lounge on 1/28/12…
