Red Death

This week’s edition of BrooklynVegan Blog Radio features lots of great new music, including songs by Dirty Projectors, Belly, Speedy Ortiz, Bodega, Florence and the Machine, Iceage, Childish Gambino, and more.

The awesome double bill of crossover thrashers Power Trip and classic rock-ish punks Sheer Mag are on tour now, having just played two nights at Brooklyn’s Elsewhere. We caught night two, which was an awesome quadruple bill…

Plus: Fury/Red Death, Leon Bridges, Sam Evian, Buck Meek, Nas, The Killers, Espers, Guided by Voices, The Horrors, The Smoking Popes, and more just-announced tours.

After a handful of releases on Triple B Records, Orange County hardcore crushers Fury have signed to Run For Cover, and they’ll release a new album on the label this fall.

The DC punk festival includes Turnstile, Limp Wrist, Radioactivity, The Flex, Warthog, Rixe, Wildhoney, Primal Rite, Red Death, and more.

Annual DC punk festival Damaged City Fest returns in April.

Catch up on some NYHC news.

Power Trip, whose Nightmare Logic was our 7th favorite album of 2017, already had tons of 2018 tour dates announced, including some big hard rock festivals, and they have now added yet another string of shows. The newly-added run is a killer quadruple bill…

This week’s Notable Releases include the second album of 2017 by rising West Coast rapper G Perico, Statik Selektah’s latest guest-filled LP, Tee Grizzley & Lil Durk’s collaborative mixtape, and more.

Tony Rettman, author of NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980–1990 and Why Be Something That You’re Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985, is releasing his new book, Straight Edge: A Clear-Headed Hardcore Punk, next week (11/14). He celebrates it in NYC tonight, with a Q&A with Scott Crawford, who directed the Salad Days: A Decade Of Punk In Washington, DC (1980-90) documentary.