Bat Fangs

From reunited vets like American Nightmare to breakthroughs like War On Women, here are the 20 best punk, emo, hardcore, etc albums of 2018.

We've been asking artists what albums they liked most in 2018. Here's a bunch of artist year-end lists, all in one place...

Plus: Smashing Pumpkins tour starts tonight, The Love Language/Bat Fangs, Mimicking Birds, Kraus, and more tour announcements.

Check out photos from all days of the Calgary fest, along with the rest of reviews from the final two days.

Hop Along are supporting their great new album Bark Your Head Off, Dog on tour now, and after we caught their hometown show at Philly's Union Transfer earlier this month, we caught them again in NYC at Brooklyn Steel last night...

In the current, ongoing series of 'Archie Comics,' The Archies cross paths with real-life indie and punk bands like Tegan & Sara, Speedy Ortiz, CHVRCHES, and Blondie. Each issue has an awesome accompanying playlist, and the issues are littered with hat-tips to bands the creators love, …

Mary Timony's band Ex Hex are currently working on their second album, which should be out later this year on Merge. While we wait for details on that, they've just announced a few late summer East Coast shows happening in Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia, and Asbury Park, NJ...

We survived SXSW and this week on our SiriusXMU show we're playing both artists who played our showcases and day parties but also ones we thought were great.

BrooklynVegan and Margin Walker's free Lost Weekend 2 SXSW day parties at Cheer Up Charlies in Austin began on Thursday (3/15) with U.S. Girls, Okkervil River, Speedy Ortiz, IDLES, Shopping, Flasher, Stella Donnelly, Becca Mancari, and more.

Sets from all three of BrooklynVegan and Margin Walker's "Lost Weekend 2" SXSW day parties will be livestreamed this week. Watch archived sets from Thursday's kickoff.