
Show overview
BV Weekly launched in 2025 and has put out 63 episodes in the time since. That works out to roughly 65 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 50 min and 1h 11m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Music show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 4 days ago, with 31 episodes already out so far this year. Published by BrooklynVegan.
From the publisher
BV Weekly is a podcast presented by the long-running music publication BrooklynVegan. Each week, founder Dave Levine and longtime editor Andrew Sacher will dive into the week’s music news and a few new albums and songs that we recommend, with a focus on indie rock, punk, metal, hip hop, and beyond.
Latest Episodes
View all 63 episodes2 of the Most Anticipated Indie Albums of Summer, Olivia Rodrigo & Turnstile’s Crazy Lineups + More
10 Overlooked Albums of 2026 So Far
Olivia Rodrigo Meets The Cure, Wu-Tang Meets the Knicks + Gov Ball Recap & More
Does 2026 Have A Consensus AOTY Contender Yet?
All Your Favorite 2000s Indie Trends Are Coming Back + Riot Fest Lineup Reaction & More
Car Seat Headrest 'Backlash,' 5 Great Rock Records of 2026, 3 Drake albums, a Shoegaze fest
I listened to the whole Noah Kahan album +++ Aphex Twin & Less Than Jake classics turn 30
That Radiohead thing, Mike D is back, Rolling Stones & Sugar too
5 More Greatest Living Songwriters, 1 Song of the Summer, Bikini Kill & Sloan classics
New Quicksand & Failure, Old Weezer & Neutral Milk Hotel
Massive Attack & Tom Waits (!), Charli XCX & Iron Maiden rock, Lily Allen slays +++ Jay-Z & Stereolab classics turn 30
Bill's Best Albums of Q1 2026 (Another Bonus Episode!)
Coachella 2026: Best Sets, Worst Discourse & more (Bonus Episode!)
Ep 50Angine de Poitrine not playing Coachella, but Jack White, NIN & The Strokes are ++ more we talk 2 more 1996 classics
OutKast's ATLiens & DJ Shadow's Endtroducing are the 2 albums turning 30 we talk this week after running down this week's music news and new albums, Coachella conflicts, the new Nine Inch Nails & Strokes album announcements, whether Radiohead made the best album of the last 30 years, Andrew's first book, Angine de Poitrine not playing SNL but Paul McCartney doing it, Angine de Poitrine not playing Coachella but opening for Jack White who was added to Coachella who are also hosting a Radiohead installation that is also going on tour, and more on this week's BV Weekly! -- Email [email protected] 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/ ** Credits: BV Weekly is brought to you by the long-running music publication BrooklynVegan, created and hosted by Dave Levine and Andrew Sacher. This week BV editor and photographer Amanda Hatfield is filling in for Andrew. Theme Song: Joseph D’Agostino (Empty Country, Cymbals Eat Guitars) Editing & Engineering by Nick Gray & Will Craddock
Ep 49Top Albums of Q1 2026, according to Andrew (Bonus Episode!)
Andrew returns to count down his favorite music of the year so far. Dave sometimes weighs in, on this bonus episode of BV Weekly, the weekly (or more) podcast brought to you by long-running music blog BrooklynVegan. -- Visit BrooklynVegan: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/ And Visit Our Shop: https://shop.brooklynvegan.com/ Email [email protected] with any feedback or questions! ** Credits: BV Weekly is hosted by BV founder and EIC Dave Levine and long running senior editor Andrew Sacher., and sometimes others. Theme Song: Joseph D’Agostino (Empty Country, Cymbals Eat Guitars) Mix engineer: Nick Gray
Ep 48Morrissey & Turnstile (and more March) Madness +++ We talk 1996 albums from Descendents & Belle & Sebastian
Rest in Peace Bo Lueders & Ross the Boss. Amanda, Dave & Bill continue to hold it down while Andrew's away with a run down of this week's new albums & muisic news. We also fill out round 2 in Pitchfork's Best Albums bracket, talk Morrissey's beef (with us!), the sad/insane Turnstile developments, and highlights from this year's Big Ears festival in Knoxville. PLUS: this week we talk more 1996 classics turning 30 this year: Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister / Tigermilk, and Descendents - Everything Sucks -- Email [email protected] 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/ ** Credits: BV Weekly is brought to you by the long-running music publication BrooklynVegan, created and hosted by Dave Levine and Andrew Sacher. This week BV editor and photographer Amanda Hatfield is filling in for Andrew, and Bill Pearis also stops by. Theme Song: Joseph D’Agostino (Empty Country, Cymbals Eat Guitars) Mix engineer: Nick Gray
Ep 47Courtney Love vs Geese, Chappell Roan vs children, new Neurosis! +++ We look back at 1996 albums from Jimmy Eat World & Cibo Matto
Pitchfork March Madness, FKA Twigs, new Robyn & Courtney Barnett albums, a very surprising Neurosis drop, new New Pornographers, a big Weezer tour, our love of Courtney Love loving Geese, Chappell Roan controversies, shows we saw, more new albums & music news & more on this episode of BV Weekly PLUS: our new series on albums turning 30 this year continues. This week we talk two more 1996 classics: Jimmy Eat World's Static Prevails, and Cibo Matto's Viva! La Woman -- Email [email protected] 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/ ** Credits: BV Weekly is brought to you by the long-running music publication BrooklynVegan, created and hosted by Dave Levine and Andrew Sacher. This week BV editor and photographer Amanda Hatfield is filling in for Andrew, and Bill Pearis also stops by. Theme Song: Joseph D’Agostino (Empty Country, Cymbals Eat Guitars) Mix engineer: Nick Gray
Ep 46Jay-Z is back, NIN will be, The Weakerthans probably won't +++ We look back at 1996 albums from Beck & Texas is the Reason
We also discuss the Lollapalooza lineup, Smashing Pumpkins being on there, Hoppers, LA indie sleaze fest Just Like Heaven, Trent Reznor's latest Nine Inch Nails update, Roots Picnic & the other 2 big shows Jay-Z just announced, John K Samson and the Weakerthans and how much we miss them, new Death Cab for Cutie, albums out this week like Poison the Well, Ladytron, Avalon Emerson, The Silver (plus a couple of Morbus Chron related death metal albums that also came out this year), and more + this week's music news, new songs & some other stuff. PLUS: beginning this week, we end the episode with the start of a new series on albums turning 30 this year. To kick things off we talk two 1996 classics: Texas is the Reason's Do You Know Who You Are, and Beck's Odelay. It's all on this week's episode of BV Weekly. -- Email [email protected] 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/ ** Credits: BV Weekly is brought to you by the long-running music publication BrooklynVegan, created and hosted by Dave Levine and Andrew Sacher. This week BV editor and photographer Amanda Hatfield is filling in for Andrew, and Bill Pearis also stops by. Theme Song: Joseph D’Agostino (Empty Country, Cymbals Eat Guitars) Mix engineer: Nick Gray
Ep 45Morrissey, Michael Stipe & that viral polka dot mathrock duo Angine de Poitrine
Angine de Poitrine is all over our feeds & selling out huge shows. We bring on a friend who booked & saw them + Dave, Bill & Amanda discuss new (and same old) Morrissey, Michael Stipe playing R.E.M. songs at a surprise show (and our chances of a reunion), a new movie called Mile End Kicks which is set against the '00s Montreal music scene, SXSW, Jello Biafra in the hospital, new D.O.A. frontman Joe Keithley documentary called Something Better Change, new albums from Kim Gordon, James Blake, ELUCID, Lamb of God. Sweet Pill, Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip, The Notwist, Cut Worms & more + the return of Pussycat Dolls, Piebald & Kacey Musgraves + more music news on this week's episode of BV Weekly -- Email [email protected] 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/ ** Credits: BV Weekly is brought to you by the long-running music publication BrooklynVegan, created and hosted by Dave Levine and Andrew Sacher with special gvuests Bill Pearis and Amanda Hatfield This week we also welcomed Mikey Rishwain of M For Montreal. Theme Song: Joseph D’Agostino (Empty Country, Cymbals Eat Guitars) Mix engineer: Nick Gray
Ep 44Hole Reuniting? Nine Inch Nails Done Touring? + What Did Billy Corgan Say?!
And how about that Harry Styles choreography? On this episode of BV Weekly, Dave, Andrew, and Bill discuss Harry's dancing, a trifecta of headline-making quotes from '90s alt-rock veterans, Sturgill Simpson putting his supposedly-physical-only new album on YouTube two weeks early, Basement's first music in 8 years, the star-studded HELP(2) charity compilation, the indie rock-centric Peaky Blinders soundtrack, a bunch of other new albums & more -- Email [email protected] 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/ ** Credits: BV Weekly is brought to you by the long-running music publication BrooklynVegan, created and hosted by Dave Levine and Andrew Sacher Theme Song: Joseph D’Agostino (Empty Country, Cymbals Eat Guitars) Mix engineer: Nick Gray