Best of 2013

The Village Voice‘s annual Pazz & Jop critics poll was published this week, surveying a whole mess of music writers and tallying up the vote…

Iggy & The Stooges @ The Mohawk Austin, TX 3/13/13 2013 has come and gone but we still have a couple year-end posts to go. Greg Cristman shot a whole lot for us last year — everything from metal to synthpop and all points in between — and he picked his 25 favorites from ’13 which are in this post. Y…

Having broken up Sic Alps, Mike Donovan released his first solo album, Wot, which took his typical sludgy blues style and wiped a bit of the mud off it…

Father John Misty @ Webster Hall, 1/14/2013 Amanda Hatfield was one of the most prolific BrooklynVegan music photographers of 2013, but somehow she managed to pick just thirteen shots that she loved the most…

BrooklynVegan is about to go in Holiday mode, eating too many cookies, looking for things to watch that aren’t A Christmas Story (though who can resist watching it at least once) and generally chilling out…

Triptykon at Inferno Festival 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro) First things first: for those of you who haven’t fled town for the holidays already, there are some noteworthy shows this weekend…

and Bill Pearis We’ve done some year-end lists in the past at BrooklynVegan, though you might notice that we’re not the most consistent with them…

British newspaper The Guardian just finished publishing its Best Albums of 2013 list, after having rolled it out over the past couple weeks…

Palma Violets @ Glasslands – 1/23/13 We already posted BV contributor David Andrako’s favorite live photos (that he took) of 2013, and now here’s another from longtime BV contributor Dominick Mastrang…

Pitchfork is back with its much-anticipated Top 50 Albums of 2013 list. The list has many of the albums you’d expect to see on Pitchfork’s list, though there’s still some surprises…