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.[1]

BrooklynVegan
Type of site
Online magazine, music blog
Available inEnglish
FoundedJuly 2004 (2004-07)
HeadquartersBrooklyn, New York,
United States
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s)David Levine
EditorDavid Levine
IndustryVeganism, Music
Subsidiaries
URLbrooklynvegan.com
AdvertisingTownsquare Media
CommercialNo
RegistrationNo
LaunchedAugust 24, 2004 (2004-08-24)
Current statusActive

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.[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 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.[7]

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.[8] 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.[9]

References
  1. Plitt, Amy. "480 Pixels: An Exhibit of BrooklynVegan's Music Photography". Time Out Magazine. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  2. Weitz, Emily. "Virtual Brooklyn: The Borough and Its Blogs". Park Slope Reader. Archived from the original on 19 April 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  3. "Artist Discovery: BrooklynVegan & Zola Jesus". Austin City Limits. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  4. "Artist Discovery: Brooklyn Vegan & Polica". Lollapalooza. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  5. "CMJ: Scenes from the BrooklynVegan Showcase". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  6. Bradley, Ryan. "Digital Tastemakers". New York Magazine. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  7. Koczan, JJ (April 24, 2009). "Surviving Roadburn, Day One: To The Center Of The Universe". BrooklynVegan. Archived from the original on June 11, 2017. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
  8. "About Us". BrooklynVegan. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
  9. "About BrooklynVegan". BrooklynVegan. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
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