BrooklynVegan
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Type of site | Music blog |
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| URL | www |
| Launched | August 2004 |
BrooklynVegan is a music blog founded in 2004 focusing primarily on music-related news and events taking place in and around New York City.[1]
BrooklynVegan began in 2004 as a blog that also covered vegan food options in Brooklyn, before the founder and editor-in-chief, simply known as Dave, shifted his focus to more exclusively documenting live music in the area.[2]
The blog is known for its efforts to expose upcoming artists, such as their installment in the Artist Discovery Series of blogs hosted by Austin City Limits and Lollapalooza,[3][4] and their program on Sirius-XM.[2] The blog also showcases artists at SXSW and at CMJ, an annual music festival in New York,[5] when in the summer of 2007, they invited the then-self-released Justin Vernon of Bon Iver to play the Bowery Ballroom.[6]
In 2011, BrooklynVegan expanded its locale with two new blogs devoted to Austin and Chicago. In 2013, BrooklynVegan acquired Invisible Oranges, a long-running heavy metal blog.[7]
References
- ^ Plitt, Amy. "480 Pixels: An Exhibit of BrooklynVegan's Music Photography". Time Out Magazine. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ a b Weitz, Emily. "Virtual Brooklyn: The Borough and Its Blogs". Park Slope Reader. Archived from the original on 19 April 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ "Artist Discovery: BrooklynVegan & Zola Jesus". Austin City Limits. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ "Artist Discovery: Brooklyn Vegan & Polica". Lollapalooza. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ "CMJ: Scenes from the BrooklynVegan Showcase". New York Times. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ Bradley, Ryan. "Digital Tastemakers". New York Magazine. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ "About BrooklynVegan". BrooklynVegan. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
