Ken mode

KEN mode already dropped a handful of songs from their new noise rock-leaning album, Success, and now the whole thing is finally hear to str…

Plenty of great metal, hardcore, and other heavy NYC shows are getting announced all the time. We don’t get a chance to write about all of them, so here’s a roundup of some of the recently-announced stuff coming up: Black metal project Volahn (aka Eduardo Ramírez, of the Black Twilight Circle collective) is playing the awesome Berserktown II festival in LA this summer, but before that he’ll play NYC on July 23 at the Acheron with Hand…

If you’ve heard any of the singles from KEN mode‘s upcoming Steve Albini-recorded album, Success, you’ve probably noticed they’re going in a different direction for this one — more directly inspired by AmRep-y post-hardcore and less metal than ever bef…

Philly noise rock/post-hardcore rippers Fight Amp are releasing their new album, Constantly Off, on June 9 via Brutal Panda (pre-order). They already put out one single, the sludgy slowed-down “Ex Everything,” and we’ve now got the premiere of the much faster “Survival Is Stra…

Plenty of great metal, hardcore, and other heavy NYC shows are getting announced all the time. We don’t get a chance to write about all of them, so here’s a roundup of some of the recently-announced stuff coming up: Ohio metallic hardcore band Enabler and Brooklyn mathcore trio Meek Is Murder (who currently share drummer Frank Godla) are going on a tour this June which ends in Meek Is Murder’s hometown on June 14 at the A…

Winnipeg crushers KEN mode recently played some stuff off their upcoming sixth album, Success at one of the BV-SXSW parties, which we mentioned sounding closer to AmRep noise rock than their previous mater…

A full set of pictures and recap from our second of three day parties at Red 7 this SXSW, is at BrooklynVegan. A second set of pictures from the Invisible Oranges-co-presented show is in this post…

The three 2015 BrooklynVegan SXSW day parties at Red 7 continued on Friday (3/20), once again bringing a handful of bands to the venue’s two stages from noon to 6…

The three FREE BrooklynVegan SXSW day parties at Red 7 in Austin begin TODAY (Thursday, 3/19). We’re taking over both stages of the 6th & Red River venue from noon-6pm and doing it again Friday (3/20) and Saturday (…

BrooklynVegan returns to SXSW this year for three FREE day parties at Red 7. We’ll be at the venue on Thursday (3/19), Friday (3/20) and Saturday (3/21), taking over both stages of the venue from noon-6pm (RSVP)…