There is fun in these albums, there's happiness, love, hope, braveness, stepping out and forward, sincerity, wisdom... All we are saying is - give these songs a chance! 1.Black Midi: 'Schlagenheim' They're new, they don't care about what was before them, or what comes next, they just play how they feel. The most earnest album […]
Elton John has been appointed to the Queen's Order of the Companions of Honour in the New Year Honours list for a remarkable music career and his services to charity. He becomes one of only 65 people apart from the monarch who can hold the honour at any one time. Apart from him, Olivia Newton-John, […]
The Guardian made a list of 50 up-and-coming artists for the next year. Still, they pick their favourites among these - it's British electronic musician Beatrice Dillon with "masterfully light yet complex music", American singer-songwriter Eli Winter, gospel-influenced singer Lynda Dawn, Brit-rock band Sports Team, "shimmering chanson post-punk" singer Charlène Darling, Asagraum because - "totally […]
Quite a good selection of rap and R&B (actually, mostly rap) albums of 2019 by the Brooklyn Vegan. An inclusive list covers majority of the most important moments in this year's rap/R&B - they've got Skepta's 'Ignorance Is Bliss', Pivot Gang's 'You Can’t Sit With Us', Stormzy's 'Heavy Is The Head', Danny Brown's 'uknowhatimsayin?', Solange's […]
Brooklyn Vegan happily reports from Yo La Tengo's Hannukah Run at New York's Bowery Ballroom, where they reformed ’80s/’90s indie rock band Christmas to play their first show in over 25 years, on Christmas Day. Yo La Tengo were also joined by C.J. Camerieri on trumpet and french horn (he collaborated with Paul Simon, Anohni, The National, Rufus Wainwright), […]
"The 'Divide' era and tour changed my life in so many ways, but now it’s all over it’s time to go out and see more of the world" - British pop-singer announced, NME reports. 28-year-old Ed Sheeran added he's "been a bit non stop since 2017, so I’m just gonna take a breather to travel, […]
2019 saw dancefloor boundaries staked out in exciting new territory, Guardian says in their introduction to the best underground club music of the year. Producers that broke those boundaries, the G says, were DJ Plead, Loraine James, Barker, Aya, Sherelle, Conducta...
A record number of 973,000 vinyl LPs was sold in the USA in week ending Dec. 19, marking the single biggest week for vinyl album sales since Nielsen Music began electronically tracking music sales in 1991. Vinyl album sales were so hot in the week ending Dec. 19, they comprised 25% of all albums sold […]
Dr. Dre hasn’t released an album since 2015, haven't been on tour since the turn of the millennium, and his last production credit on a No. 1 hit was in 2009 (Eminem’s 'Crack a Bottle'), but still he managed to climb to the top of Forbes list of highest-earning musician of this decade. He earned […]
Kanye West released a new album 'Jesus Is Born' on Christmas day, two months after 'Jesus is King'. The album's primary artist is listed as the Sunday Service Choir, a gospel collective featuring West, which has also performed in his Sunday Service hip-hop and gospel pop-up events. The album features 19 songs -- including a […]
Allee Willis, songwriter who helped compose the theme song 'I'll Be There for You' for the sitcom 'Friends', has died aged 72, Variety reports. Willis also co-wrote the Earth, Wind & Fire hits 'September' and 'Boogie Wonderland', and has won Grammy Awards for the soundtrack for the film 'Beverly Hills Cop' and another for the […]
It was not written that three, or any other number of kings visited them, or that stars flew over their heads when they were born, but they did indeed become stars later on. It's their music, not being born on December 25, that made them famous - Shane MacGowan, singer-songwriter of The Pogues, Annie Lennox […]
To cap off a year of endless incredible mixes from much-loved stalwarts and game-changing newbies alike, we present our 25 favorite mixes - Fact Magazine says in the introduction of their choice of mixes for the year. It's really a colourful mix, incorporating even Mariah Carey and Linkin Park's late Chester Bennington.
17-year-old promoter Bryson Del Valle booked a five-band gig at a Denny’s restaurant in Santa Ana, California, which ended up, well, good in punk terms, less so in family diner terms. Del Valles apparently booked the venue by saying it was for a birthday party, Denny's didn't realize it was to be a punk one. A […]
The list goes from 'Titanic Rising' by Weyes Blood at the top (because "we too are lost in the stars"), to 'Animated Violence Mild' by the Blanck Mass at the spot No. 50 ("one of the harshest sounding albums"). Check out the full list here. BV made a separate list of 40 best indie-music albums - here […]
British pop star landed his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as his 'Fine Line' earned 478,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 19, Billboard reports. 'Fine Line' had the biggest week for a pop album by a male artist in over four years, and the third-biggest […]
Pitchfork made a great selection of music books published this year - a collection of best writings by the satire website The Hard Times, high-school biography by Tegan and Sara, journals by ’70s gay porn flicks soundtrack author Patrick Cowley, a case against R. Kelly by journalist Jim DeRogatis who investigated him for 20 years, […]
Brooklyn Vegan's choice of 100 best emo and punk albums of 2010s includes a whole lot of it found in between Converge and Mitski, meaning "punk" and "emo" is taken as an attitude/philosophy, rather than a genre. The top 10 (below) might be the least varied here... 10. The Menzingers – 'On the Impossible Past' […]
American rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, real name Daniel Hernandez, has been sentenced to 24 months in prison with five years supervised release on racketeering and firearms charges, the New York Times reports. He has been charged with conspiracy, attempted murder, conspiracy to distribute heroin, and four firearms-related charge. He could have expected a longer sentence, but […]
In July, August and September Sony’s publishing companies generated $357.6 million, Universal Music Publishing Group was $30m behind with $327.5 million, while Warner was way behind with $173 million. In the first nine months of 2019, Sony made $1.036 million, Universal was at $857 million, and Warner at $478 million, Music Business Worldwide reports
The Canadian indie-rock singer-songwriter has spent a year writing one song a week. He then whittled it down to 14 songs that will come out in February on album 'I Know Now Why You Cry', Exclaim reports. First single from it 'I've Got a Bottle' - about a bottle... of ink... and drink as well […]
BC's selection is different from the most other big outlets, plus we like BandCamp, so here it is, their 100. The top 10 - mostly albums that others don't feature: 10. False - 'Portent' 9. Helado Negro - 'This Is How You Smile' 8. Ex Hex - 'It’s Real' 7. Jamila Woods - 'LEGACY! LEGACY!' […]
Longtime Wu-Tang Clan affiliate and spiritual mentor to the group, Popa Wu has died aged 63. Popa Wu was the older cousin of Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and also related to GZA and Ol’ Dirty Bastard. He played a crucial role in the group’s formation and would go on to serve as a spiritual advisor of sorts, preaching […]
Composers, singers, and musicians were among the millions imprisoned in Naci concentration camps. Under the bleakest conditions imaginable there, they performed and wrote music. Italian composer and pianist Francesco Lotoro has spent 30 years recovering, performing, and in some cases, finishing pieces of work composed in captivity. CBS has the heart-warming story...
Mariah Carey's classic Christmas song 'All I Want For Christmas is You' has topped the US charts - 25 years after it was first released, Billboard reports. When the hit song made its debut in 1994 it was as an EP and not a single, meaning it wasn't allowed to compete in Billboard's Hot 100. […]
Fact Magazine made a collection of the best 2019 club music. What is to be found there is: individual, subjective and collective strategies for coping with the alienation; denaturalized, yet organic sounds; borders between club, footwork, hardcore and jungle; linking the populist big room techno that seems to be everywhere these days with a keen […]
Rik Burt from Braintree, Essex in the U.K. paid homage to local legend Keith Flint of the Prodigy with a light display featuring more than 3,000 bulbs that flash in sync with 'Out of Space', 'Warriors Dance' and 'Omen', Essex Live reports. The music was all mixed in sync to the lights by Burt's 14-year-old neighbour Ben […]
On-and-off Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante is back in the band again, after ten years of absence. Frusciante first joined the band in 1988 and wrote and recorded 1989’s 'Mother’s Milk' and 1991’s 'Blood Sugar Sex Magik' with the band. He left in 1992 and then rejoined in 1998 to do 'Californication', 'By the Way', and 'Stadium Arcadium' with the RHCP. He left […]
"Prodigious talent delivers game-changing debut. When did you last hear a genuinely new sound?!" - NME says about their pick for the album of the year. 50th on the list is a bit less obvious - "a break-up and its fallout, via the medium of wispy pop"; 'Good at Falling' by The Japanese House. Check out the […]
Compton rapper Roddy Ricch climbs to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart with his debut studio album, 'Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial', Billboard reports. The set starts with 101,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 12, out of it SEA units comprise 98,000 (equaling 130.7 […]
