Brian Jonestown Massacre

The new music wagon train rolls on via BrooklynVegan Blog Radio on SiriusXMU. This weeks’ show features songs from New Pornographers, Alex Lahey, El Michaels Affair, Spiral Stairs, Hand Habits, Jay Som, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Vagabon, Julie Byrne and more. We also play classics from Husker Du, Meat Puppets and Minutemen (a a shout […]

Also: Deerhunter, Thee Oh Sees, Foxygen, Pond, Cherry Glazerr, Washed Out, The Black Angels, METZ, La Luz, King Gizzard, and plenty more.

SiriusXM this week launched Volume, what they’re describing as the first-ever 24/7 all talk channel about music. The daytime schedule features: “Feedback,” a morning drive time show anchored by Nik Carter and magazine editor/writer Lori Majewski; hard rock DJ Eddie Trunk hosts “Trunk Nation” from noon to 4 PM. There are also shows with Melissa […]

These California shoegazers enlisted Brian Jonestown Massacre original member Ricky Maymi to mix “Behind the Scenes,” and other folks who worked on the album include Creation Records co-founder Joe Foster, John Fryer of This Mortal Coil, and more.

California’s FIR are just now releasing their first single, but their lineage is long. The group features Brent Rademaker (Beachwood Sparks/The Tyde/further) and Matt Piucci from Rain Parade, plus Rob Campanella (The Brian Jonestown Massacre) and Nelson Bragg from the Brian Wilson Band. FIR’s debut single, “Summer Wasn’t There / Winter Doesn’t Care,” also features […]

They’re streaming sets from Animal Collective, Courtney Barnett, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Black Angels, Ty Segall & the Muggers, Royal Trux, Thurston Moore Band, Black Mountain, Uncle Acid, Parquet Courts, and more

Austin’s Levitation festival begins later this month, and as usual, Levitation DJ Al Lover made a mixtape for each day. The Saturday and Sunday mixtapes are coming later this week, but the Friday (April 29) mixtape premieres in this post. It’s got music from Slowdive, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Flying Lotus, Oneohtrix Point Never, Nicolas Jaar, Uncle Acid, Dungen, Shabazz Palaces and more.

Tickets to the Brian Jonestown Massacre show at Webster Hall go on BrooklynVegan presale today at 10 AM. Password is BVMASSACRE. UPDATE: we were having technical difficulties, but password is working now…

With Anton Newcombe living in Berlin these days, The Brian Jonestown Massacre don’t tour North America as often as they used to. But with an appearance at this year’s Levitation fest, the BJM will be going on a lengthy trek across our continent, including a stop in NYC at Webster Hall’s Grand Ballroom on May 9…

Last year was a busy one for Canadian singer Tess Parks. She released I Declare Nothing, the album she made with Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe, and contributed to BJM’s mini-LP …