
Sadly, the biggest news in the music world this week has been the deaths of three icons, Sick Of It All's Lou Koller, The Frames/Swell Season's Glen Hansard, and Kavinsky, all three of whom we paid tribute to on this episode, but we also talk Lollapalooza, Mile End Kicks, auto-tune dominating headlines thanks to The Strokes & Avenged Sevenfold, the 30th anniversary of Alice in Chains Unplugged (which also has a new vinyl release). new Judiciary, stuff Green Day is doing, new The Durutti Column & other new albums out this week, waves of emo, Hayley Williams, Momma, more of this week's music news & other stuff too. 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 pressing of Alice in Chains unplugged & Momma represses included!) ** Credits: Theme Song: Joseph D’Agostino (Empty Country, Cymbals Eat Guitars) Editing & Engineering by Nick Gray & Will Craddock
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