Ultimate Painting

Woods are back with a new album, City Sun Eater In The River Of Light, out April 8 via Woodsist. Judging from opening cut “Sun City Creeps,” this LP will be a bit different for the Brooklyn band…

& Amanda Hatfield Every year is a good year for new music, but 2015 felt like the best one in a while. It was an especially great year for major label rap, after 2014 was an especially slow one, but it was good for plenty more than that too: folk, post-punk, indie pop, noise, art pop, punk, etc…

The second episode of BrooklynVegan’s “In Residence” show on Spotify is now live. It’s part two of our 2015 wrap-up where BV editors Bill Pearis, Andrew Sacher and site founder Dave play more of their favorite songs of the year, and discuss such topics as favorite live bands, overused words in band names, comebacks, and what we’re looking forward to in 2016…

Austin’s Levitation Festival already announced a few of its 2016 performers, including Brian Wilson performing Pet Sounds, plus Animal Collective, Flying Lotus, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Sleep, Lee Scratch Perry, Ty Segall, Black Mountain, and Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats…

It’s that time of year again when folks start publishing their End of Year Best-Of lists. Almost always first out of the gates is UK-based Rough Trade Shops who dropped their 100 Best Albums of 2015 list today…

Pete Astor was in NYC earlier this year playing NYC Popfest with his old band The Loft. That band (and his other ’80s band, The Weather Prophets) worked in a jangly, post-VU style that still sounds good today…

Ultimate Painting‘s current tour rolled through NYC on Friday (9/18) for a show at Rough Trade with Pale Lights and Wall. Pictures from the whole night are in this post…

The 2015 edition of Pop Montreal began on Wednesday (9/16) with shows happening at most, if not all, of the Quebec City’s venues. A bit like SXSW in form, Pop is one of the friendlier festivals you can go to and, while offering acts from around the world, Montreal (and Canada) is still the focus…

The 2015 edition of Pop Montreal is coming up in less than a month (September 16 – 20) and festival organizers have recently made a few additions to the already robust lineup…

We’ve had a heatwave in NYC all week with temperatures in ’90s. If you’re looking to cool off, Ultimate Painting‘s terrific second album, Green Lanes, is chill in all the right ways…