BrooklynVegan

BrooklynVegan is a music blog founded in 2004 focusing primarily on music-related news and events taking place in and around New York City.
"BrooklynVegan" began in 2004 as a blog that also covered vegan food options in Brooklyn, before the founder and editor-in-chief, Dave Levine, shifted his focus to more exclusively documenting live music in the area.
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, and their program on Sirius-XM. The blog also showcases artists at SXSW and at CMJ, an annual music festival in New York, when in the summer of 2007, they invited the then-self-released Justin Vernon of Bon Iver to play the Bowery Ballroom. In 2009, "BrooklynVegan" commissioned American journalist and editor of "The Obelisk" JJ Koczan to cover Roadburn Festival on their behalf with a series of exclusive articles.
In 2011, "BrooklynVegan" expanded its locale with two new imprint blogs. "BV Chicago" was launched in early 2011 and is devoted to Chicago, Illinois, while "BV Austin" was launched in late 2011 and is devoted to Austin, Texas. On January 4, 2013, "BrooklynVegan" officially acquired "Invisible Oranges", a long-running heavy metal blog, and writer Fred Pessaro, "BrooklynVegan"'s heavy metal writer, became Editor-In-Chief of "Invisible Oranges".