interviews

Incorporating everything from dub to prog to emo, long-running ska band The Holophonics fully ditch their satirical past (and their covers albums) for their most real, authentic, powerful album to date.

As Kevin Devine gears up for his career-spanning 20th anniversary joins, he joins us on the BV podcast for an in-depth chat...

Rich Balling joins us on the BV podcast to talk about The Sound of Animals Fighting's first EP in 14 years, the debut album by his hyperpop project Hospital Gown, and lots, lots more...

Walter talked about the Rival Schools reunion & reissue, the parallels between Nirvana's rising tide in the '90s and Turnstile today, comparisons between hardcore in the '80s and now, and much more on the BV podcast...

Hardcore is moving forward right now, but as one of the genre's current brightest voices, Ian Shelton, puts it, it's really moving back towards the original intent of the genre. He talks about that and much more on the newest episode of the BrooklynVegan podcast...

Folly and The Best of the Worst are both bands that mix ska with heavy metallic post-hardcore. They've often been the odd band out, but now they found each other and released a new split, which features Folly's first song in 14 years, and they join us on the BV podcast to talk about that and much more...

Dazy's bright, catchy new album 'OUTOFBODY' sounds like the best parts of '90s rock in a blender. Stream it and read a breakdown of every track by main member James Goodson...

We look back on Northstar's 2002 emo classic 'Is This Thing Loaded?' and spoke to Nick Torres about the making of the album, the influences behind it, their connection to Taking Back Sunday, and more...

Baltimore punk trio Pinkshift's killer, much-anticipated debut album is out today, and they've spoken to us about some of the major influences behind it...

Jim Ward's post-At the Drive In band Sparta are back with a new album, and he talks to us about every track on it...