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SXSW announces third round of 2015 showcasing artists
SXSW, which happens March 17-22 in Austin, TX, has announced its third round of 2015 showcasing artists. (Here’s round 1 and round 2.) It’s a big update, with over 500 new additions, including Amason, Frog Eyes, Palma Violets, Girl Band, Pity Sex, Sheer Mag, Kate Tempest, THEESatisfaction, Viet Cong, Matthew E…
only 3 more chances to go to Glasslands! (get your tix)
Every few months, it seems, one of the spaces that transformed Williamsburg from warehouse-heavy cultural dead zone to warehouse-heavy primordial soup for the city’s creative life finally surrenders to the neighborhood’s ongoing condo-fication, literal and metaphorical…
tix on sale: Sleaford Mods, Bette Midler, Lia Ices, Obits, more
Tickets to the BrooklynVegan-presented Sleaford Mods‘ US live debut at The Wick this Saturday (11/29) with The Gotobeds and The Rogers Sisters are on sale now…
tix on sale: London Grammar, Marked Men, Throwing Muses, of Montreal, David Wax Museum, Beacon & more
Tickets for the BrooklynVegan-presented London Grammar show at Irving Plaza were sold out, but a few more tickets were just put back on sale…
Breton postpone North American dates, but share new mix
Bad news, good news time for fans of UK quintet Breton. The band, whose new album is out in February, were supposed to play Montreal and NYC next week (Glasslands on 12/13)…
Heathered Pearls releasing remix LP (stream a track), opening for Shigeto this weekend (win tix!)
Ambient artist Heathered Pearls (aka Jakub Alexander) released his lush, transportive album, Loyal, last year via Ghostly International. Alexander has now handed that album over to a host of other talented folks — Teen Daze, Solar Year, Nitemoves and more — for a remix album, Loyal Reworks, which is out September 10…
win tickets to Laneway Festival Detroit
As discussed, St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival is set make its North American debut in the Detroit area on September 14. The one-day fest will take place at Meadow Brook Music Festival in Rochester Hills, MI, and its lineup features Sigur Ros, The National, Run the Jewels, The Dismemberment Plan, AlunaGeorge, Phosphorescent, Savages, and many more…
Laneway Festival coming to Detroit w/ Movement & Ghostly collaboration, The National, Sigur Ros, CHVRCHES, Alunageorge & much more
St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival organizers are excited to announce an inspired collaboration with Movement Electronic Music Festival and Ghostly International to host a stage at the daylong North American debut of the boutique indie music festival, headlined by Sigur Ros and The National on Sept…
Shigeto releasing a new LP, touring w/ Beacon (dates, stream)
Ann Arbor beatmaker Shigeto (aka Zach Saginaw) is set to release his new album, No Better Time Than Now, on August 20 via Ghostly. Album single “Detroit Part 1,” is Shigeto’s typical nu-jazz-meets-hip-hop style, but the other cut he’s released, “Ringleader,” is new ground for him…
Beacon, Braille & Solar Year played Mercury Lounge (pics)
Brooklyn electronic pop duo Beacon released their new album, The Ways We Separate, last week (4/30) and celebrated it with a release show on Saturday (5/4) at Mercury Lounge, a one-off before their mini spring tour, which begins later this month…
