Brooklyn Vegan — SAVAK, which includes members of Obits, Holy Fuck and more, released their third album, 'Beg Your Pardon', this year. Continue reading… more info

Brooklyn Vegan — SAVAK's debut album, Best of Luck In Future Endeavors, is out this week via Comedy Minus One. (Order yours.) The group, which includes members of Obits, Holy Fuck and Nation of Ulysses, pull from a lot of different influences... Continue reading... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — SAVAK @ Cake Shop in May (more SAVAK, the new band featuring Sohrab and Greg from Obits, will be going on a short, four-city tour with Washington DC's The Effects. That tour wraps up in NYC at Union Pool on... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Cake Shop's monthlong 10th anniversary wraps up on Friday (5/30) with their final "super show" featuring new Sub Pop signees The Gotobeds and SAVAK, the new band from Obits' Sohrab Habibion and Greg Simpson. The show is now more... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis It was sad news when Obits called it quits in April, but on the good news front: guitarist Sohrab Habibion and bassist Greg Simpson will continue to play together in new band SAVAK. What's it all about?... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — BuzzFeed is launching a literary magazine and offering writer fellowships. Strokes Guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. discussed the influence of Guided By Voices' album Alien Lanes at Consequence of Sound. The band Obits has broken up. CBC Books recommende... more info

Stereogum — Since 2009, the Drive Like Jehu and Hot Snakes co-frontman Rick Froberg has led the Brooklyn-based band Obits. They’ve released three underrated albums of authoritative, asskicking guitar-rock. And now, it seems like that’ll be it. As Pitchfork p... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Bad news rock fans: Obits have called it quits. The band, that featured by Drive Like Jehu/Hot Snakes/etc's Rick Froberg and Edsel's Sohrab Habibion, let the world know via the above instagram, which said, "This bar is closed! We've... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — (photo via) We've been posting a bunch of New Year's Eve shows happening in NYC throughout the past few months, but there's even more cool stuff we haven't gotten to yet. Here's a roundup of ways to musically ring in... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets to the BrooklynVegan-presented Sleaford Mods' US live debut at The Wick this Saturday (11/29) with The Gotobeds and The Rogers Sisters are on sale now. As discussed, Bette Midler is going on a tour soon in support of... more info