Blur

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums by John Cale, Guided by Voices, Ladytron, The Murder Capital, Blur drummer David Rowntree, The Bad Ends (ft R.E.M.’s Bill Berry), The C.I.A. (Denée & Ty Segall), and more.

Plus Halsey, Baby Keem, Bad Religion, Darkside, Bleachers, The Mars Volta, My Morning Jacket, Drain Gang, and many more.

“Get ready for the biggest Times Square takeover since that other gorilla smashed the place up,“ say Gorillaz, who are presenting “Skinny Ape“ AR events in Times Square and Piccadilly Circus.

Plus: Metallica, The Charlatans & Ride, Punch Brothers, Mclusky, and more tour and festival news.

Listen to new songs by Discreet, Rabbit, Rabit, JELEEL! (ft. Denzel Curry), Dave Rowntree (Blur), Dave Okumu (The Invisible), and more…

The reunion gig happens at London’s Wembley Stadium with slowthai, Self Esteem, and Jockstrap opening.

While Blur have been pretty quiet since the release of 2015’s ’The Magic Whip,’ its members are busy with their own projects. We catch up with guitarist Graham Coxon and drummer Dave Rowntree…

From Ty Segall to Nina Hagen, Brattleboro, VT queer postpunk trio THUS LOVE tell us about the influences behind their debut album.

‘Radio Songs‘ will be out January 23

The WAEVE, aka the duo of Blur guitarist Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall, have announced their self-titled debut album, which will be out February 3…