Record Store Day 2024 is this Saturday (4/20), and as usual, there are hundreds of exclusive releases that are coming out just for the occasion. There are special RSD releases from The Beatles, The Ramones, Nas, Olivia Rodrigo, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, The Cure, De La Soul, The 1975, Blur, Pearl Jam, Grateful Dead, The Who, The Stones, Daft Punk, Kate Bush, Public Enemy and more very popular artists, but there are also lots of releases that are more off the beaten path, from cult artists to picture discs, celebrity vanity projects and more. Here are five RSD24 releases that not everyone w ..read more

Two literal and stylistically Midwest emo bands, Harrison Gordon (from Normal, IL) and TRSH (from Springfield, MO), will hit the road together this May/June. That’s a great pairing of two new-ish, rising bands, and it makes stops in Cincinnati, Nashville, Atlanta, Baltimore, Philly, NYC, and more. Tickets for most dates are on sale now. The tour hits Brooklyn’s Elsewhere Zone One on June 10, and Long Island’s MooseCreek Park also provide local support on that show. They’ve also got shows at the Collingswood, NJ American Legion on June 9 and Poughkeepsie’s Reason & Ruckus on June 12. All da ..read more

In our Record Store Day 2024 issue of the BrooklynVegan Digital Magazine, we talked to many different musicians about how record collecting and independent record stores shaped who they are today. One of those was with Jay Ferguson of Canadian alt-rock greats Sloan. Jay has been a music fanatic since he was a kid, and actually worked at his local independent record store, Ol’ Dan’s Records in Halifax, when he was 13 years old. We talked to Jay about how he ended up a record store clerk at such an early age, the first record he bought, The Beatles, his vinyl collection, records he’s still on th ..read more

The 2024 edition of Switzerland’s legendary Montreux Jazz Festival runs July 5-20, and this year’s lineup is diverse to say the least. Jazz is a mere part of the lineup, and across the 16 days, they’ve got Massive Attack, Jon Batiste, Air, Janelle Monáe, Sting, Kraftwerk, Deep Purple, PJ Harvey, André 3000, Diana Krall, Michael Kiwanuka, Roisin Murphy, The National, Dionne Warwick, Smashing Pumpkins, Trombone Shorty, Kokoroko, Laufey, Lenny Kravitz, Justice, Duran Duran, Soft Cell, Alice Cooper, and more. The festival, which started in 1968, features a new layout this year, with a brand new ma ..read more

Record Store Day 2024 is Saturday (4/20), and ahead of it, this year’s ambassadors, Paramore, have shared David Byrne‘s new cover of their After Laughter track “Hard Times” on streaming services. It’ll be out on side A of a limited 12″ for RSD, with side B featuring Paramore’s cover of “Burning Down the House” from the upcoming Talking Heads tribute album. Hear both songs below. When his cover was announced, Byrne wrote, “Paramore recorded an amazing version of ‘Burning Down The House’ for a Stop Making Sense covers album that A24 is doing in connection with the re-release of the film. That so ..read more

Emo veterans Into It. Over It. have announced a new album, Interesting Decisions: Into It. Over It. Songs (2020 – 2023), due May 3 via Storm Chasers LTD and Big Scary Monsters (pre-order). IIOI leader Evan Weiss made this one with longtime collaborator Matthew Frank (who’s also in Their / They’re / There with Evan) on bass, film composer Joe George on guitar, and Adam Beck (of Sincere Engineer) on drums. “Coming off the writing and releasing of [2020’s] Figure, Adam and I were able to solidify the current lineup of IIOI – myself, Adam, Joe George and Matt Frank,” says Evan. “The chemistry, tru ..read more

After four Los Angeles shows (including one where he brought out Phoebe Bridgers), Conor Oberst is in the midst of the NYC portion of his residency run, and Thursday night (4/18) was his third show at Bowery Ballroom. He had a truly all-star band join him for the occasion, including Lee Ranaldo, Yeah Yeah Yeah‘s Brian Chase and Nick Zinner, The Strokes‘ Nikolai Fraiture, LCD Soundsystem‘s Nancy Whang, and The Faint‘s Clark Baechle. You can see Thursday night’s setlist, which was largely made up of Bright Eyes favorites, along with Conor’s cover of Daniel Johnston‘s “Devil Town,” below, along w ..read more

Eyedress just released his new mixtape, Vampire in Beverly Hills, which has one of the more diverse features list this side of Cowboy Carter. You’ve got Rico Nasty, DāM-FunK and N8NOFACE, but also a very strong early 2010s Captured Tracks Records vibe with Wild Nothing, Dent May, John Maus, Homeshake, Vex Ruffin, and more. Craft Spells must’ve been busy. There are also appearances from Provoker, Cuco, Sy Chio, Jesse Jo Stark, and more. You can listen to the whole thing below. You can catch Eyedress on tour starting in May, including runs with Glass Animals and Freddie Gibbs, and he’ll be in NY ..read more

Today is the 30th anniversary of Nas‘ Illmatic and he’s celebrating in more ways than one. He’s putting out Illmatic: Remixes & Rarities as a Record Store Day exclusive on Saturday (it’s one of the albums we highlighted in our Record Store Day guide), and he teamed up with one of Illmatic‘s most legendary producers, DJ Premier, for a collaborative album that’s set to come out later this year. Details on the album are TBA, but Nas and Premier have just dropped one track to celebrate Illmatic‘s anniversary, “Define My Name.” It sounds like classic Nas/Preemo, and you can check it out below ..read more

Taylor Swift‘s anticipated new album The Tortured Poets Department has officially arrived, and you can stream it below. Along with the 16-track album, which features Post Malone on “Fortnite” and Florence + The Machine on “Florida!!!,” Taylor dropped 15 more tracks around 2 AM, revealing Tortured Poets is actually a 2+ hour double album. “It’s a 2am surprise,” she wrote on Twitter, The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album. I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 extra ..read more