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"I feel like the first album, it was very hectic, it was a rush. It was like, all of a sudden, overnight craziness. So now that I'm settled in, I feel like I know more about my direction and what I want to do, what I want to say."

"Howie could get along with anybody. He was friends with both Johnny and Joey Ramone. Hells Angels, skinheads, drag queens, comic-book nerds, art collectors, fashionistas-they all loved him."

The Day Party will feature big-name DJs such as Mark Farina, Shiny Objects, J Boogie, and Collette back to back with DJ Heather, celebrating three decades of future music.

Purity Ring's sound features glassy synths and heavy bass, creating a delicate yet dangerous atmosphere that resonates with listeners.

Oneohtrix Point Never has released a two-track single, led by an original called 'Dim Stars.' The B-side, 'For Residue (Extended),' is a meditative version of the Tranquilizer track.

Gelli Haha's debut album Switcheroo was one of our favorites of 2025, and she's about to begin her first headlining tour supporting it.

No Fun Fest returns to NYC for the first time since 2009 as No Fun New Perspectives, a three-day event featuring avant-garde and improvisational music.

The two-day electronic music event is set to take place September 19-20, 2026, at Randall's Island Park, promising another immersive experience for dance music fans.

Witch Post, the LA duo of Alaska Reid and Dylan Fraser, released their new EP and first for Partisan, Butterfly, on Friday (3/20), and they celebrated that night with their first ever NYC show.

Between our daily coverage, our Notable Releases and Indie Basement columns, and our monthly punk and rap roundups, we post tons of new music all the time here on BrooklynVegan. In an effort to keep track of all the new music we're excited about, we've been posting a new playlist each week with many of the songs we love that were (mostly) released that week.

Having released The Mountain, their best album since Plastic Beach, on Friday, Gorillaz have now announced a North American tour supporting it. The fall dates are their first major North American outing since 2022, and they'll have Deltron 3030 opening all shows, with Little Simz as well on most of them.

"Many found the music offensive, the dancing objectionable, and the popularity of both with young people verging on a mental health crisis." So writes music historian Susan C. Cook about ragtime, the heavily syncopated ancestor of jazz that arose in the late 1800s. Like all things, ragtime's subversiveness faded over time, and, a century later, the works of Scott Joplin and other practitioners had been relegated to carnivals and fairs, their jaunty piano melodies now evoking quaint notions of old-timey fun.

Dublin post-punks SPRINTS released their second album and first for Sub Pop, All That Is Over, in September, and they're midway through their North American tour supporting it, which hit NYC on Thursday night (2/5) for a show at Bowery Ballroom. Vocalist Karla Chubb told the crowd that it was the band's first tour since becoming full-time musicians, and she spent some time either in the middle of floor or crowdsurfing over it during the set,

Ratboys ripped into much of their fantastic new album, Singin' to an Empty Chair. Highlights included the opening trio of "Anywhere," "Penny in the Lake," and "Know You Then," as well as "The World, So Madly" and "Light Night Mountains All That." Prior to "Burn It Down," Steiner spoke out in opposition to the actions of ICE, with "Fuck ICE" actually written on the setlist and the crowd applauding the condemnation.