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Cypress Hill are bringing their long-running Haunted Hill Halloween shows back to NYC this year for two nights at Irving Plaza. They play Halloween itself, Saturday, October 31, with Immortal Technique and Lord Sko, followed by a second show on Sunday, November 1 with Mellow Man Ace (featuring Krooked Treez) and Planta Industrial. Tickets for both NYC shows go on BrooklynVegan presale Thursday, August 27 at 10am ET (Password: BVHILL). If you miss out, general sale starts the next day. Cyp

Boston punks Haywire are one of the fastest rising hardcore bands of recent times, and now they’ve announced their second full-length album, I Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye, due October 2 via their new label home, Roadrunner Records. Citizen‘s Mat Kerekes produced the album. Taylor Young mixed it at The Pit. The album was recorded over three months in Leeds, UK and Toledo, OH, and features appearances from members of Nothing and The Aggrolites, along with other friends of the band.

Fontaines D.C. have announced their fifth album, Dopamine Chamber, due October 16 via XL Recordings. They reunited with producer James Ford, who also produced its 2024 predecessor, the Grammy-nominated Romance, which we called their best album yet in Bill’s review on release day, and which we went on to name the 6th best album of that year. They made the album between London, the English countryside and Palermo, where Grian Chatten recorded vocals in a makeshift booth built from mattres

New York City indie rock band The Still Out — who we recently mentioned were reforming to open some shows for their friends in Swervedriver —  formed in the late 2000s by producers Josh Stoddard and Arjun “Arj” Agerwala. Stoddard tragically passed away in 2021, and Agerwala is reforming the band and reissuing their 2008 album Crystallized in tribute to his best friend and bandmate.  Crystallized has been off streaming services for a while, but returns on Friday, August 21 with the

Rapper Denzel Curry, who has lately been dipping his toes more in hardcore, and producer Kenny Beats, who now goes by Kenneth Blume and is known lately for working with bands like IDLES, Geese, Fcukers, and Weezer. are teaming up again. Six years after their excellent 2020 collaborative project UNLOCKED, the duo have announced its follow-up, ii, due August 21 via Loma Vista. We’ve got exclusive color vinyl variants of the new album and of UNLOCKED. PRE-ORDER/ORDER one or both records no

The first leg of Swervedriver‘s North American, BrooklynVegan-presented tour celebarting 35 years of their debut album Raise begins this month, and as previously discussed, newer band Slow Fiction is opening all of those dates, with old friends The Still Out (at the 2 NYC-area shows) and midwest shoegaze vets The Life and Times (Chicago) reforming for select dates. Openers for the 2nd leg, happening later in the year on the west coast, are also now announced. Philly shoegazers Bleary E

One of Taking Back Sunday‘s most classic albums, their 2006 major label debut Louder Now, turns 20 this year, and to celebrate it they’re giving it a new vinyl reissue. The 20th anniversary edition comes with a bonus 7″ featuring two of the album’s B-sides, “Brooklyn (If You See Something, Say Something)” and “Sleep.” We have an exclusive “Amazonite Swirl” vinyl variant of the LP, paired with the 7″ on standard black vinyl, limite

Pacific Northwest indie rock cult heroes Young Fresh Fellows, led for over 40 years by Scott McCaughey (R.E.M., Minus 5), rarely make it to the East Coast, but we’ve been blessed this decade. In 2024 they played their first shows here in over 20 years and now they’re coming back again this October, playing NYC, Troy, DC, Philly, Baltimore, Richmond and Carrboro. All dates are listed below. The NYC show is October 16 at Bowery Palace (fka Bowery Electric) with WFMU’s Todd-O-Phon

The 2026 edition of Lollapalooza wrapped up on Sunday (8/2) at Chicago’s Grant Park. Turnstile played to a huge crowd that was going wild the whole time, and Brendan Yates ended their set by crowdsurfing and hugging as many people in the crowd as he could. Watch video of that below. The xx (whose set we unfortunately missed) and Tate McRae closed out the night, and Sunday at Lollapalooza also included sets from Water From Your Eyes, Hot Mulligan, MUNA, Monaleo, Amber Mark, and more. See pi

Aziz Ansari has announced a short fall run of his ongoing Hypothetical tour, kicking off in Los Angeles on October 7 and wrapping in DC on October 22. All dates are below. The tour hits Kingston’s Ulster PAC on 10/17 and NYC’s Beacon Theatre on 10/18. Tickets for all October shows are on presale now with code AZIZ. Before the October tour, Aziz will be in NYC for the Still Rising After 25 Years benefit concert at Madison Square Garden on September 10 that also features Bill Burr, Nik

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, aka Will Oldham, has announced a new live album that was recorded at The Pico Union Project in Los Angeles over Valentine’s Day weekend 2025, not long after BPB released his great, country-leaning album The Purple Bird. Titled Ghosts of American Psychonauts, the new live album features three songs from that album (“re-arranged with new instrumentation,” according to the announcement), as well as classics like “I See A Darkness” and &#822

Minneapolis dream pop/shoegaze band She’s Green have named their five favorite dream pop albums in a new video made for BrooklynVegan. The picks range from (relatively) more recent bands like Alvvays and Beach House to legends like Chapterhouse, who She’s Green just opened for during Chapterhouse’s first North American tour in 16 years. Watch the video to see their picks and what they had to say about each one below. She’s Green’s own new EP Swallowtail is out now,

So many artists, so many songs, so little time. Each week we review a handful of new albums (of all genres), round up even more new music that we’d call “indie,” and talk about what metal is coming out. We post music news, track premieres, and more all day. We update a playlist weekly of some of our current favorite tracks. Here’s a daily roundup with a bunch of interesting, newly released songs in one place. CITIZEN – “GOOD FORTUNE” Citizen’s anticipated new album Halcyo

Now It’s Overhead, the indie rock/indietronica project led by Andy LeMaster, are back with their first new music in 20 years. “eleven-seven-thirty-five” is one of two new tracks off their new digital EP, in the beginning, due out September 18 via Saddle Creek. The EP will come the first-ever vinyl pressings of their three albums, 2001’s self-titled, 2004’s Fall Back Open, and 2006’s Dark Light Daybreak, which have been remastered by LeMaster and are available

Saturday at Lollapalooza got off to a late start after doors were delayed until 3 PM due to severe weather. A shortened schedule meant the first few artists of the day, including Wisp and Sunday (1994), got cut from the lineup, and others, including Wolf Alice, had their sets shortened. “Grant Park is muddy, so come prepared,” Lollapalooza’s message to ticketholders read. “Wear waterproof shoes you don’t mind getting wet and muddy, be patient as you make your way around t

Fiddlehead don’t get to do extended tours too often, but they’re on the road this summer with “some incredible bands,” as they rightfully described them, as they support their new EP Baby I’ll Change. They stopped in Brooklyn on Friday (7/31) for a show at Warsaw, which they began by paying tribute to the late Lou Koller. Walter Schreifels joined them for that, and for the cover of Sick Of It All‘s “Clobberin’ Time” which started their set. W

Indie Basement is a weekly column on BrooklynVegan focusing on classic indie and alternative artists, “college rock,” and new and current acts who follow a similar path. There are reviews of new albums, reissues, box sets, books and sometimes movies and television shows. I’ve rounded up June’s best music, highlighting my favorite songs and albums, plus links to relevant features and news, a monthly playlist, and more. How was your July? Between the World Cup, The Odyssey and all the great

Longtime friends and collaborators Broken Social Scene, Metric, and Stars are nearing the end of the first leg of their “All The Feelings Tour,” which has had them sharing stages since June. Last week they stopped in NYC for a pair of shows at Brooklyn Paramount, which had members of each band joining the others onstage. Broken Social Scene also paid tribute to the late Glen Hansard during their night one set, dedicated “Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)” to him. Bro

ScHoolboy Q‘s Blank Face LP, one of the best rap albums of the 2010s, turned 10 in July and the TDE rapper will celebrate the album on a 10th anniversary tour this October. It includes an already-sold-out show at LA’s Palladium, along with a newly-added LA show at the Novo as well as stops in Atlanta, NYC, DC, Las Vegas, and more. An artist presale begins Wednesday (8/5) at 10 AM local and the general public on-sale starts Friday (8/7). In our list of the 100 best rap and R&B alb

“This is the first time it’s been a full team effort,” Yard Act frontman James Smith says of the band’s new album You’re Gonna Need a Little Music, noting producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen (NIN, Deafheaven) pushed for that to happen. “Justin said, ‘I think you guys are like The Monkees: all four of you could have your own TV show, but the band is greater than the sum of its parts. So I want everyone’s individuality to shine on this record. I want ever