Brooklyn Vegan — Move over Maryland Deathfest and your Mobb Deep booking, the Bushwick Collective Block Party returns this June and will put quality metal like Black Tusk, Sannhet and Primitive Weapons up against... Fat Joe! There's also blues from Daddy Long... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Repulsion at Warsaw in 2012 (more by Greg Cristman) photo: some of the guests from Wednesday's Big Terrific (by Ryan Muir) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights...... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Maryland Deathfest is less than a month away (May 21-24), and the lineup was already stacked with Neurosis, Napalm Death, Yob, Triptykon, Primordial, Inter Arma, Tombs, D.R.I., Conan, Ufomammut, Sodom and so many more. Yet MDF still felt the... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DMX was in Newark on Saturday (4/4) for the Masters of Ceremony show with Mobb Deep, EMPD, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Slick Rick and Kid Capri, and while there, he was accused of robbing a 21-year-old. NJ.com reports:"The two... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — As always, NYC has a good amount of upcoming local hip hop shows and tours passing through. Here's a rundown of some of the cool stuff coming up... Prolific local rapper Smoke DZA recently dropped the third installment of... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Deafheaven at Sasquatch 2014 (more by Chris & Rae Graham) You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... "Top Secret!" @ Death by Audio There's only four nights left of... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Phosphorescent at Outside Lands 2014 (more by Samantha Saturday) As discussed, Mobb Deep are playing Knitting Factory on 11/19 to help celebrate the venue's fifth anniversary in its current Brooklyn location. That show is one of many great shows sche... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Veteran rap duo Mobb Deep have already had a busy year, and they're about to head out on a lengthy Canadian tour. Upon returning home, they'll play what they're saying is their first-ever Brooklyn show (the members have played... more info

Stereogum — There’s a certain type of drum programming that lets you know that the world is a cold and unforgiving place, that nothing is going to be OK. It’s the kind of drum programming you hear on three of the great bleak, depressive masterpieces of the m... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — We just mentioned that Joey Bada$$ will join a lineup of rappers -- Prodigy of Mobb Deep, Jean Grae and Skyzoo & Torae -- performing with New Orleans brass band The Soul Rebels at NYC's Brooklyn Bowl on Friday... more info