Younghusband

& 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…

Younghusband‘s new album, Dissolver, is out on Friday (10/30) via ATP. Produced of Loop, and featuring Dirty Three violinist Warren Ellis on a couple tracks, it’s a lightly psychedelic record that owes some debt to early Brian Eno, VU, the C-86 scene, ’90s shoegaze…

UK band Younghusband, which which is fronted onetime Emmy the Great collaborator Euan Hinshelwood, will release their second full-length, titled Dissolver, on October 30 via the ATP label…

One of the premier music festivals in the world, the 2015 edition of Primavera Sound is just underway in Barcelona, Spain. If you can’t make it, they’re streaming many of the fest’s performances live via two video channels on their website and below…

The 2015 Primavera Sound Festival goes down in Barcelona, Spain from May 28 – 30. We knew The Strokes and recently reunited shoegazers Ride were playing and now the line-up is being announced via the festival’s mobile app, which is a not-so fun 8-bit game you have to play to reveal names…

Though its festivals in the UK and the US are no longer, ATP Iceland is still going and returns in 2015 from July 2 – 4 at Ásbrú in Keflavík…

DOWNLOAD: The Limiñanas – Down Underground (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Gytters – Divebombers (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Wrong Words – Summer’s Gone (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Figurines “New Colors” (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The War On Drugs – “Baby Missiles” (MP3) Band of the week is most certainly The Limiñanas (mainly because they haven’t played here before) who are from France and play Death By Audio tonight (8/17) and Cake Shop tomorrow (8/18)…

I didn’t know Stefan personally, though I did see him out all the time. The picture above (he’s the one with the hat) was just taken after he won a PAPER nightlife award…