Preoccupations

Plus: Gary Clark Jr, Weird Al, The Interrupters, Patton Oswalt, The Voidz, Hot Water Music, Jonathan Richman, Mick Jenkins, Dandy Warhols, Clutch, Girlpool, Lady Lamb, and more NYC-area shows on sale today.

Listen to Protomartyr's storming take on Preoccupations' "Forbidden." Their tour starts in November.

Fans of superior post-punk inspired modern indie rock should be excited to hear that Detroit's Protomartyr and Canada's Preoccupations will be on tour together this fall...with UK band Rattle along for the ride.

For its second year, music, beer and food festival OctFest moved to Governors Island and expanded to two days. Saturday included music from Vince Staples, Jeff Tweedy, NAO, Saba, Preoccupations, Standing On The Corner, Vagabon, Hatchie, Flasher and Madison McFerrin.

Pitchfork have added more acts to their music and beer festival, OctFest. Some of the OctFest acts also recently played Pitchfork's Northside showcase, and pictures of that show are in this post...

Canadian band Preoccupations have had a seriously bad week, having been robbed twice...yikes! First in Vancouver and then in San Francisco, waking up Tuesday (5/15) ”to find our beloved old van, our trailer, and all of our gear and merch stolen.”

Last year, Pitchfork and their beer website October put on the inaugural OctFest in NYC with live music and craft beer, and this year they'll do it again. This time it's two days, and it moves from Brooklyn Hangar to Governors Island...

This week's edition of BrooklynVegan Blog Radio on Sirius XM we pulled from the initial lineup of the 2018 Desert Daze festival (which is pretty sweet). We played songs by Tame Impala, Mercury Rev, Warpaint, Preoccupations, Connan Mockasin, A Place to Bury Strangers, Can, King Khan, Pond and lo…

Plus: Mercury Rev will perform ’Deserter's Songs’ in full, and the initial lineup also includes Chelsea Wolfe, Malcolm Mooney of Can, Connan Mockasin, Preoccupations, A Place to Bury Strangers, and more.

This week's Notable Releases include Courtney Marie Andrews' first album for Fat Possum, Preoccupations' intense third LP, Heartless Bastards' Erika Wennerstrom's solo debut, and more.