Girls Names

Irish band Girls Names will release their new album, Stains on Silence, on June 15 via Tough Love. It's their first LP since 2015's excellent Arms Around a Vision, and was a difficult birth, beginning work on it in 2016 but then shelving it and then ripping it apart...

It's an overstuffed Basement this week, with new records from UK eccentric Julian Cope, Ireland's Girls Names, German house producer DJ Koze, the return of Taken By Trees (aka Victoria Bergsman of The Concretes), '80s alt vets Shriekback, Montreal's gothy Freak Heat Waves, and snarky Minneapolis duo BNLX.

First Thursday, then Friday, and finally the third of three BrooklynVegan SXSW day parties at Austin venue Cheer Up Charlies happened on Saturday (3/19). Here's a recap and a set of pictures.

From Anderson .Paak to Iggy Pop to Loretta Lynn to Protomartyr to Stealing Sheep.

Belfast, Ireland post-punks are gearing up for their first U.S. shows in three years.

Our free SXSW day party on March 19 at Cheer Up Charlies includes Protomartyr, Into It. Over It., Julien Baker, Mothers, Margo Price, Car Seat Headrest, Fear of Men & many more.

& Amanda Hatfield Every year is a good year for new music, but 2015 felt like the best one in a while. It was an especially great year for major label rap, after 2014 was an especially slow one, but it was good for plenty more than that too: folk, post-punk, indie pop, noise, art pop, punk, etc...

The second episode of BrooklynVegan's "In Residence" show on Spotify is now live. It's part two of our 2015 wrap-up where BV editors Bill Pearis, Andrew Sacher and site founder Dave play more of their favorite songs of the year, and discuss such topics as favorite live bands, overused words in band names, comebacks, and what we're looking forward to in 2016...

Ireland's Girls Names have made a video for "Reticence," the opening track on their fantastic album from this year, Arms Around a Vision...

Girls Names' new album, Arms Around a Vision, is out today (10/2) via Tough Love. The record is a big leap for the Irish band who are still drawing from post-punk influences but really make it their own here...