Chris Funk

plus Billy Bragg, Coldplay, Pussy Riot, Touche Amore, Wilco, The Beths, Beach Slang, and more livestreams you can watch today since there are no live concerts to attend.

Stephen Malkmus' new "stoner folk" album Traditional Techniques is out this week.

Malkmus' new "folkie" LP Traditional Techniques is out in March and you can get tickets early for the NYC stop on the tour with the BrooklynVegan presale that runs from noon Wednesday through 10 PM Thursday.

”We're messing with these kind of boomery, '60s tropes - all acoustic guitars, almost all dudes with moustaches.” - Malkmus on the new album ’Traditional Techniques.’

Pro-shot video released of Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes), Eric D. Johnson (Fruit Bats), James Mercer (The Shins), Chris Funk (The Decemberists), Jason Isbell, John Stirratt (Wilco), Benmont Tench (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), and Janet Weiss (Quasi, ex-Sleater-Kinney) covering the song at Newpor…

Lots of R.E.M. songs were played, Colin Meloy, James Mercer and Scott himself (who's on the road to recovery after a stroke in November).

Offa Rex's tour continues at NJ's XPoNential Fest on Friday (7/28) and Newport Folk Fest on Saturday. Before they leave the East Coast, Olivia plays a solo show at NYC's Joe's Pub in August.

Deltron 3030 aren't the only alternative hip hop group making a long-awaited comeback this year. Bay Area duo Latyrx (aka Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truth Speaker) are planning to release the followup to their sole album, 1997's The Album, on Novembe...

Converse Rubber Tracks Live just announced a free Music Hall of Williamsburg show (8/9) with Glassjaw, Balance & Composure, and World's Fair (which is already "sold" out), and they've now announced another free Brooklyn show taking place this month as well...

Chris Funk vs Jim James staring contest (via BrooklynVegan Instagram)

The Newport Folk Festival went down in Rhode Island over the weekend with sets from Beck, Father John Misty (who also played Terminal 5), Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (who plays NYC tonight), Phosphorescent, Feist, Cold Specks,…