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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. 

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Credits:

Theme Song: Joseph D’Agostino (Empty Country, Cymbals Eat Guitars)

Editing & Engineering by Nick Gray & Will Craddock

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 White 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.

 

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Theme Song: Joseph D’Agostino (Empty Country, Cymbals Eat Guitars)

Editing & Engineering by Nick Gray & Will Craddock

"Give me your top 10 artists of the decade so far," demanded somebody on social media, so 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. 

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Credits:

Theme Song: Joseph D’Agostino (Empty Country, Cymbals Eat Guitars)

Editing & Engineering by Nick Gray & Will Craddock

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. 

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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

 

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Credits:

Theme Song: Joseph D’Agostino (Empty Country, Cymbals Eat Guitars)

Editing & Engineering by Nick Gray & Will Craddock

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. 

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(new Dinosaur Jr. on pre-order now!) 

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Credits:

Theme Song: Joseph D’Agostino (Empty Country, Cymbals Eat Guitars)

Editing & Engineering by Nick Gray & Will Craddock