Vinyls are experiencing a significant and sustained comeback over the past decade, driven by younger generations and older fans seeking a deeper and more tangible music experience. When my father was ...

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 ...

After exploring mature themes and delivering what they consider their most mature performances to date in Paul Soriano’s drama-thriller “Real Life Fiction,” Piolo Pascual and Jasmine Curtis-Smith ...

In a year that had no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the first time since 1990, rap thrived in so many other ways. This list of the 25 best rap albums of 2025 includes grand ...

The number of albums released year upon year seems to grow exponentially, with self-released albums increasingly the norm. Much of the most interesting and courageous modern jazz is released on small, ...

The Korean pop outsider Effie and the Brooklyn indie-rock band Geese top our critics’ lists this year. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica Musicians know how to make music, and they ...

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

Online tributes to the Concordia University Wisconsin pharmacy student who was shot and killed Nov. 4 depict her as an accomplished college basketball player and "a light to everyone who knew her." ...

We are now officially in holiday season, folks—a happy development, despite our nation’s dystopian reality. Does anyone else feel like they’re living in a whirlwind? This week, we’re loving the ...

The love story at the heart of local rap luminary Karma Rivera’s debut album, Priceless, is low-key a queer epic—a rise and fall, an odyssey, a saga of love, loss, animus, and reclamation; a journey ...

The Victoria’s Secret model welcomed her children less than two years apart Taylor Hill/FilmMagic; Candice Swanepoel/Instagram Candice Swanepoel is a mother to two kids, sons Anacan and Ariel The ...