BrooklynVegan’s Top 55 Albums of 2020
From Run The Jewels to Fiona Apple to Hum to Bartees Strange to Napalm Death to Mary Lattimore, here are our favorite albums of this whirlwind year...
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Jeff Rosenstock tells us about his favorite albums of 2020
”IT'S NOT ALL GONNA FIT ONTO THIS LIST... TEENAGE HALLOWEEN? CLASSICS OF LOVE?! THAT FUCKING GULCH RECORD?!?!?!?!?!!?”
Pitchfork’s 50 Best Albums of 2020
One day after Pitchfork published their list of the top 100 songs of 2020, they've shared their list of the 50 best albums of the year...
The Microphones releasing photobook version of new album/film
”It can work in conjunction with the album, a libretto, and it can also work as just a book of images with no story, an abundance of beautiful light, an 'art book,'“ Phil says.
20 must-hear folk albums from 2020 (so far)
From legendary lifers like Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Bill Fay to great newer artists like Phoebe Bridgers, Waxahatchee, Jason Isbell, and Bonny Light Horseman, here are 20 folk albums we love from this year so far...
15 classic early/mid 2000s indie rock concert videos to watch right now
With concerts as we know them still cancelled, relive this awesome early/mid 2000s footage of Arcade Fire, The National, Bloc Party, The Shins, Modest Mouse, Death Cab, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and more...
Notable Releases of the Week (8/7)
This week's Notable Releases include Phil Elverum's first album as The Microphones in 17 years, the last album Jason Molina recorded before his passing, Neurosis' Steve Von Till, 4AD-signed rapper Tkay Maidza, and more...
an interview with Phil Elverum on The Microphones’ first album in 17 years
”There is too much focus on the title of a thing,” Phil says about reviving his old moniker. ”Ideally, we can just make stuff without a title for it and without an identity for it.”
Phil Elverum streaming the first Microphones album in 17 years with new short film
Phil Elverum (also known as Mount Eerie) has revived his old moniker The Microphones for a new album, 'Microphones in 2020,' which you can now hear in full, along with an accompanying short film...
The Microphones announce first new album in 17 years (hear a clip)
Phil Elverum retired his old moniker The Microphones in 2003 and has been releasing music as Mount Eerie ever since, but last year he revived the moniker for the first Microphones show in 16 years, and now just announced a new Microphones album!