Viet Cong

The polarities of Sunday’s rock-friendly bill are represented by Mac DeMarco and Savages. DeMarco is a nonchalant goofball whose slacker self-deprecation (“We got nothing else to do”) and wayward frazzle-rock suits the genial tempo of a blazingly hot afternoon…

San Francisco’s Treasure Island Music Festival returns in 2015 from October 17-18, and this year’s lineup includes The National, The War on Drugs, Robyn & La Bagatelle Magique, Azealia Banks, Run the Jewels, Father John Misty, Panda Bear, Deerhunter, Drive Like Jehu, Ex Hex, Deadmau5, STS9, Hudson Mohawke, Shamir, Viet Cong an…

Austin’s annual Fun Fun Fun Fest returns in 2015 from November 6-8 at Auditorium Shores, and as usual the lineup is amazing. There’s Jane’s Addiction (performing Ritual de lo habitual), Gogol Bordello (performing Gypsy Punks), The Dwarves (performing Blood, Guts & Pussy), the first-ever Texas show and only US show of 2015 for ’80s metal legends Venom, a reunion from DC hardcore vets Dag Nasty, Yeah Yeah Yeahs/Blood Brothers/Locust side project Head Wound City, D’Angelo, NOFX, American Football, Ride, The Charlatans (UK), Wu-Tang Clan, Schoolboy Q, Grimes, Cheap Trick, Drive Like Jehu, L7, Babes In Toyland, American Nightmare, Converge, Chain of Strength, Desaparecidos, Skinny Puppy, Afrika Bambaataa, Future Islands, Fucked Up, Neon Indian, Hudson Mohawke, Joey Bada$$, Alvvays, Speedy Ortiz, Parquet Courts, Power Trip, La Dispute, Title Fight, Shamir, Mikal Cronin, Viet …

Fun Fun Fun Fest happens November 6-8 at Auditorium Shores and the amazing lineup is now announced! Check it out here and get your ticket…

NXNE has added a lot more artists to its 2015 edition which happens June 17 – 21 at venues all over Toronto, ON. Additions include Atlas Sound who will play a BrooklynVegan-presented show at Lee’s Palace on 6/19 with Foxes in Fiction, Holydrug Couple, Fresh Snow and more TBA…

Ireland’s brash, loud Girl Band, who visited in March around SXSW, will be heading back to North America for a tour in June. They’ll spend part of that opening for Viet Cong, including both Northside Fest shows at Music Hall of Williamsburg, both of which are sold out…

We already knew that one of the 2015 Northside Festival shows would have Against Me! but the venue for that remained unannounced for over a…

The 2015 Osheaga Festival happens July 31 – August 02 in Montreal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau. This year’s lineup includes St. Vincent, Kendrick Lamar, Future Islands, Hot Chip, Nas, Father John Misty, Alt-J, The War on Drugs, Weezer and lots more…

Cedar Street Courtyard became FLOODfest during SXSW, hosting most of the biggest names at this year’s fest. On Thursday (3/19) we stopped by to catch a stacked bill of Aussie charmer Courtney Barnett, Canadian noisepunks METZ, Vancouver’s much-hyped Viet Cong, Massachusetts party rocker King Tuff, and UK band The Vaccines…

As you may know Canadian band Viet Cong have been the subject of some controversy over their name, especially since Oberlin College canceled the show the band were supposed to play, saying the name “deeply offends and hurts Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American communities…