Brooklyn Vegan is a blog that covers the music scene and musical happenings of New York City. Most posts are directly related or connected to the mentioned band either playing or having recently played a concert in NYC. Because the bands covered are chosen by the blogger based on like, there is some subjectivity but most posts deal with the news aspects of mentioned bands, like touring and photos/setlists recent concerts. There are multiple posts each day, keeping readers up-to-date with happenings in the music world locally and more widely. Within the most current posts from today is one about a survey Pitchfork is taking, asking which current musical trend should be rid of. This does not deal specifically with artists but rather the music blogging community and, as it has been covered on many different blogs, Brooklyn Vegan finds it necessary to include it on their blog. There are also posts non-music related from time-to-time because of their significance in the news and/or their relation to NYC.
Brooklyn Vegan, more so than any other music blog, is infamous for its user comments. Comment sections for posts tend to be so nonsensical and irrelevant to the post at a certain point that the entire effort of commenting becomes a mindless waste of finger movements. There have been various posts that have received over 50 comments (sometimes even topping two or three hundred!) that start as legitimate thoughts or opinions on the posts but quickly spiral downwards into cruel and poorly thought out responses. Some even go as far as to be blatantly sexist, racist, or derogatory. This proves that, under the veil of the Internet's protection, people will say anything when they can't be named. Some comments have gotten so out of control that the blog's administrator has had to disable the comments for that particular post.
A chain of comments from a post about bands named The Drums and Surfer Blood being scheduled to play a concert together in January and a show prior to that on New Year's Eve:
"for the price, and compared to the other shitty NYE happenings out there, this looks like one of the better shows that night"
Posted by Anonymous | December 4, 2009 6:57 PM
"there are a tremendous amount of blah happenings on NYE this year. I'm considering going to see the fucking ball drop :/"
"too cool for school"
Posted by Anonymous | December 4, 2009 7:57 PM
"drums4lyfe"
Posted by Anonymous | December 5, 2009 12:48 AM
"Four lads auditioning for the lead in Jason Reitman's upcoming adaptation of Catcher In The Rye"
Posted by Anonymous | December 5, 2009 1:16 AM
"if the Drums were real...they would play their instruments"
Posted by Anonymous | December 5, 2009 1:21 PM
"You people clearly don't remember Elkland. Because if you did, you wouldn't give these major label has-been Drums clowns the time of day."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U251tbM3gYk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U251tbM3gYk
"What do you mean, "you people"?"
Posted by Anonymous | December 5, 2009 2:28 PM
From the About Us section:
"BrooklynVegan is a NYC-centric mostly-music blog that focuses on reporting international music news, live show reviews, pictures, tour dates, gossip, tips, MP3's, videos, and just about anything else a music fan could want. Non-music news finds it's way on to our pages as well, and every post comes with an open exchange of ideas via the public commenting system."
Check it out @: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/
