Bat Fangs

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, like Title Fight, Hop Along, Joyce Manor, Against Me!, Jeff Rosenstock, Converge, Blur, Black Flag, Waxahatchee, Superchunk, and so much more...

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.

Feeling SXSW FOMO? You can watch our day parties from your own home -- no badge or wristband required.

For bands, The Savannah Stopover is a way to ease into the festival insanity that is SXSW, and for audiences it's a chance to catch a lot of bands who are on their way Austin, but in a much more laid back atmosphere. Having the fest in Savannah's downtown district, where you can drink on the street and take your beverage with you from venue to venue, is a nice bonus.

Lineup additions include Leikeli47, The Weather Station, No Vacation and awakebutstillinbed, who join Andrew WK, Okkervil River, Hop Along, Speedy Ortiz, U.S. Girls, Lucy Dacus, and MUCH more.

BrooklynVegan and Margin Walker's LOST WEEKEND 2 day parties also include Hinds, The Wedding Present, Shopping, La Luz, Tyler Childers, Soccer Mommy, Gang of Youths, A Place to Bury Strangers, Natalie Prass and still much, much more.