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BV Weekly is a podcast presented by the long-running music publication BrooklynVegan. Each week, founder Dave Levine and longtime editor Andrew Sacher will dive into the week’s music news and a few new albums and songs that we recommend, with a focus on indie rock, punk, metal, hip hop, and beyond.
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- 5 days ago1h 20m
New Charli XCX & The Strokes, Greg Freeman & First Day Back too
We also address the onging pee & poop problems at Morgan Wallen, Noah Kahan & Olivia Rodrigo shows after a week of crazy weather in NYC during which Dave caught The Menzingers, Ancient Death, First Day Back, Greg Freeman (who played his just-announced album in full), Wendy Eisenberg, the World Cup final and more + we talk the new albums by Charli XCX & The Strokes & other new songs & this week's music news and whatever else. Rest in Peace, L7 bassist Jennifer Finch. BV Weekly is brought to you by the long-running music publication BrooklynVegan, created and hosted by BrooklynVegan founder Dave Levine and BV senior editor Andrew Sacher. --- Email bvweekly@gmail.com with any feedback or questions! Visit BrooklynVegan: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/ This Week's Notable Releases (goes live Friday morning): https://www.brooklynvegan.com/category/music/new-releases/ This Week's Indie Basement (goes live Friday morning): https://www.brooklynvegan.com/tags/bills-indie-basement/ And Visit Our Shop: https://shop.brooklynvegan.com/ (new analog pressings of Funkadelic classic "Maggot Brain" on pre-order now!) ** Credits: Theme Song: Joseph D’Agostino (Empty Country, Cymbals Eat Guitars) Editing & Engineering by Nick Gray & Will Craddock
- 1 weeks ago1h 42m
Thoughts on American Football in 2026 & a Wild Week in Music News (Title Fight, Jack White & Jay-Z included)
It’s been an extremely busy week in the music world. Jay-Z did a historic (and at times turbulent) three-night Yankee Stadium run to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Reasonable Doubt and the 25th anniversary of The Blueprint with tons of guests (Beyoncé, Rihanna, Nas, Eminem, Clipse, Slick Rick, Alicia Keys and many more included); Charli XCX took the opposite approach with an extremely intimate show at the soon-to-close Music Hall of Williamsburg, also with guests (Clairo, Kim Petras, and her upcoming tourmate underscores); Phoebe Bridgers did two surprise televised performances; Napalm Death played Tiny Desk; two already-famous non-metal people gave us some unexpected metal news, and Mastodon gave us some we expected; Queens of the Stone age released a track, which was 1 of 2 new Josh Homme collabs with a country singer (and not his new collab with Mastodon), and a grunge song by Dexter and the Moonrocks made its way into the Top 40; and more. Dave and Andrew talk about all that, the Charley Crockett / Jack Wife beef, the Title Fight sort-of-reunion, new Fiona Apple, Lily Seabird, The Menzingers, Quicksand, Steve Lacy, Fuming Mouth and more on the new episode of BV Weekly, an episode that is actually primarily about American Football, who Dave recently caught at Brooklyn Paramount. BV Weekly is brought to you by the long-running music publication BrooklynVegan, created and hosted by BrooklynVegan founder Dave Levine and BV senior editor Andrew Sacher. --- Email bvweekly@gmail.com with any feedback or questions! Visit BrooklynVegan: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/ This Week's Notable Releases (goes live Friday morning): https://www.brooklynvegan.com/category/music/new-releases/ This Week's Indie Basement (goes live Friday morning): https://www.brooklynvegan.com/tags/bills-indie-basement/ And Visit Our Shop: https://shop.brooklynvegan.com/ (new analog pressings of Funkadelic classic "Maggot Brain" on pre-order now!) ** Credits: Theme Song: Joseph D’Agostino (Empty Country, Cymbals Eat Guitars) Editing & Engineering by Nick Gray & Will Craddock
- 2 weeks ago1h 43m
Who are our top 10 artists of the decade so far?
"Give me your top 10 artists of the decade so far," demanded somebody on social media, so that that's what Andrew and Dave attempt to do on today's episode of BV Weekly, before talking new albums by Jack White, Madonna, Snag, The Rolling Stones, Tracey Nelson & more. Spanning, rock, pop, metal, country, punk, hardcore & more, listen to us debate including Chappell Roan, Geese, Blood Incantation, Kendrick Lamar & many more on our list of the most important artists of the last 5.5 I mean 6.5 years. BV Weekly is brought to you by the long-running music publication BrooklynVegan, created and hosted by BrooklynVegan founder Dave Levine and BV senior editor Andrew Sacher. --- Email bvweekly@gmail.com with any feedback or questions! Visit BrooklynVegan: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/ This Week's Notable Releases (goes live Friday morning): https://www.brooklynvegan.com/category/music/new-releases/ This Week's Indie Basement (goes live Friday morning): https://www.brooklynvegan.com/tags/bills-indie-basement/ And Visit Our Shop: https://shop.brooklynvegan.com/ (new analog pressings of Funkadelic classic "Maggot Brain" on pre-order now!) ** Credits: Theme Song: Joseph D’Agostino (Empty Country, Cymbals Eat Guitars) Editing & Engineering by Nick Gray & Will Craddock
- 3 weeks ago58 min
Nirosta Steel + More Best Albums of 2026, Indie Basement edition (Bonus Episode)
Bill joins to talk his Indie Basement list of the Best Albums of 2026 So Far, some TV shows we're watching, and that new Arthur Russell-related Nirosta Steel album everybody's talking about. Hear us talk about Aldous Harding, Beth Orton, Iceage, Robber Robber, Lee "Scratch Perry" & more. You can read the full Indie Basement list here: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/indie-basement-best-albums-of-2026-so-far-mid-year/ And the main BrooklynVegan mid-year list here: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/our-50-favorite-albums-of-2026-so-far/ BV Weekly is brought to you by the long-running music publication BrooklynVegan, created and hosted by BrooklynVegan founder Dave Levine and BV senior editor Andrew Sacher. This week BV senior editor Bill Pearis is here instead of Andrew. -- Email bvweekly@gmail.com with any feedback or questions! Visit BrooklynVegan: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/ This Week's Notable Releases (goes live Friday morning): https://www.brooklynvegan.com/category/music/new-releases/ This Week's Indie Basement (goes live Friday morning): https://www.brooklynvegan.com/tags/bills-indie-basement/ And Visit Our Shop: https://shop.brooklynvegan.com/ Some of 2026's best and most anticipated albums on vinyl can be found here: https://shop.brooklynvegan.com/collections/best-most-anticipated-albuims-of-2026 ** Credits: Theme Song: Joseph D’Agostino (Empty Country, Cymbals Eat Guitars) Editing & Engineering by Nick Gray & Will Craddock
- 3 weeks ago1h 8m
The Best Albums of 2026 So Far
BrooklynVegan's 50 favorite albums of the year so far is live! Andrew & Dave talk through some of it, before running down a bit of this week's music news. Here us talk about Beth Orton, Thomas Dolbaum, Star Moles, Death Cab For Cutie, Feels Like Heaven, Cryptic Shift, Soft Curse, Olivia Rodrigo, Fcukers, Daniel Lopatin, Roc Marciano, Nine Inch Nailes, Angine de Poitrine & more. Read the full list on BrooklynVegan.com Also: The Ritornello Form album came out, Dave saw Shabaka, Andrew thinks the Beach Boys are the best American band. BV Weekly is brought to you by the long-running music publication BrooklynVegan, created and hosted by BrooklynVegan founder Dave Levine and BV senior editor Andrew Sacher. --- Email bvweekly@gmail.com with any feedback or questions! Visit BrooklynVegan: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/ This Week's Notable Releases (goes live Friday morning): https://www.brooklynvegan.com/category/music/new-releases/ This Week's Indie Basement (goes live Friday morning): https://www.brooklynvegan.com/tags/bills-indie-basement/ And Visit Our Shop: https://shop.brooklynvegan.com/ (new Dinosaur Jr. on pre-order now!) ** Credits: Theme Song: Joseph D’Agostino (Empty Country, Cymbals Eat Guitars) Editing & Engineering by Nick Gray & Will Craddock
- Jun 26, 20261h 14m
2 of the Most Anticipated Indie Albums of Summer, Olivia Rodrigo & Turnstile’s Crazy Lineups + More
Phoebe Bridgers & This is Lorelei both released new songs & annnounced new albums, and we're very excited about those + the insane guest lineup on beabadoobee's new album (say her name 5 times fast) & the insane list of Turnstile openers includign Clipse & the insane Olivia Rodrigo fest that Bikini Kill is one of many artists playing. + Deftones' fest, The Killers’ Brandon Flowers goes country, Morrissey is mad at Johnny Marr, Mannequin Pussy & Wednesday touring together, new music from Fiddlhead, PJ Harvey, Smidley & Lucy Dacus, Julia Holter, Chelsea Wolfe, The Rolling Stones & Robert Smith & more. We also finally mention the banana man. All this and & more on this episode of BV Weekly. BV Weekly is brought to you by the long-running music publication BrooklynVegan, created and hosted by BrooklynVegan founder Dave Levine and BV senior editor Andrew Sacher. -- Email bvweekly@gmail.com with any feedback or questions! Visit BrooklynVegan: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/ This Week's Notable Releases (goes live Friday morning): https://www.brooklynvegan.com/category/music/new-releases/ This Week's Indie Basement (goes live Friday morning): https://www.brooklynvegan.com/tags/bills-indie-basement/ And Visit Our Shop: https://shop.brooklynvegan.com/ (This is Lorelei & Phoebe Bridgers on pre-order now!) ** Credits: Theme Song: Joseph D’Agostino (Empty Country, Cymbals Eat Guitars) Editing & Engineering by Nick Gray & Will Craddock
- Jun 19, 20261h 6m
10 Overlooked Albums of 2026 So Far
As mid-year approaches, we take some time away from celebrating the Knicks to each name 5 overlooked/underrated 2026 albums... what does that mean exactly? We debate that too, but for sure neither of us chose Olivia Rodrigo, Ratboys & Angine de Poitrine + new albums from Warning & Tierra Whack, this week's music news & more. BV Weekly is brought to you by the long-running music publication BrooklynVegan, created and hosted by BrooklynVegan founder Dave Levine and BV senior editor Andrew Sacher. -- Email bvweekly@gmail.com with any feedback or questions! Visit BrooklynVegan: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/ This Week's Notable Releases (goes live Friday morning): https://www.brooklynvegan.com/category/music/new-releases/ This Week's Indie Basement (goes live Friday morning): https://www.brooklynvegan.com/tags/bills-indie-basement/ And Visit Our Shop: https://shop.brooklynvegan.com/ (new Descendents & Mojave 3 reissues on pre-order now!) ** Credits: Theme Song: Joseph D’Agostino (Empty Country, Cymbals Eat Guitars) Editing & Engineering by Nick Gray & Will Craddock
- Jun 12, 20261h 27m
Olivia Rodrigo Meets The Cure, Wu-Tang Meets the Knicks + Gov Ball Recap & More
It was a big week here in NYC: Phoebe Bridgers' $1 MSG show, Bright Eyes' doomed album anniversary show, Gov Ball where Dave saw Slayyyter, Geese, Fcukers, Freddie Gibbs, Clipse, Hot Mulligan, A$AP Rocky, Japanese Breakfast (now known as J Preggie), Jennie & more.... and then THE KNICKS (Taylor Swift & the Wu-Tang Clan included) + Olivia Rodrigo surprised Primavera Fest by bringing out Robert Smith of the Cure to premiere a new song they made together and which appears on Olivia's new album which is out today (and which Andrew reviews) + Death Cab For Cutie is still in rotation, and we talk other new albums that came out this week + this week's music news (Strokes, Interpol & Jack White included), all of this & more on this episode of BV Weekly. PLUS our 1996 albums turning 30 series ends this week with albums by Tupac and Everything But the Girl. Stick around to the end of the episode to hear that. BV Weekly is brought to you by the long-running music publication BrooklynVegan, created and hosted by BrooklynVegan founder Dave Levine and BV senior editor Andrew Sacher. -- Email bvweekly@gmail.com with any feedback or questions! Visit BrooklynVegan: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/ This Week's Notable Releases (goes live Friday morning): https://www.brooklynvegan.com/category/music/new-releases/ This Week's Indie Basement (goes live Friday morning): https://www.brooklynvegan.com/tags/bills-indie-basement/ And Visit Our Shop: https://shop.brooklynvegan.com/ (Angine de Poitrine vinyl is shipping now!) ** Credits: Theme Song: Joseph D’Agostino (Empty Country, Cymbals Eat Guitars) Editing & Engineering by Nick Gray & Will Craddock
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