John Cusack

This week in Indie Basement: Wilco’s Cate Le Bon-produced Cousin, plus Blonde Redhead, Don Letts, Melenas, Seablite, and Modern Nature, and more.

Listen to new songs from Nation of Language, Don Letts (ft. John Cusack), The Color Fred (Replacements cover), Sarah Mary Chadwick, and more.

‘An Evening with John Cusack and Screening of High Fidelity’ happens October 26 at The Town Hall.

The Who, Ziggy Marley, Blondie, Willie Nelson, Cat Stevens, Massive Attack, Jeff Rosenstock, Rancid, Phish’s Trey Anastasio, and more also paid tribute to the reggae legend.

Billy Eichner, John Cusack, Insecure‘s Natasha Rothwell, Julie Klausner, and others call on Fox News to fire Tucker Carlson, who defended 17-year-old white supremacist Kyle Rittenhouse’s killings of two protesters in Kenosha, WA.

A true legend. He was 98. Read tributes from his son Rob Reiner, Steve Martin, Dick Van Dyke, Albert Brooks, Seth Meyers, Ron Howard, Sarah Silverman, and more.

Plus: tributes from Bon Iver, Taika Waititi, k.d. lang, Kevin Morby, Michael Moore, Rosanne Cash, Stephen King, and more.

We’re all heartbroken at the news about Tom Petty. Tributes have been pouring in on social media from fellow musicians and other artists including ones from St. Vincent, Neko Case, Cameron Crowe, Chuck D, Ryan Adams, Sharon Van Etten…

How was your Columbus Day? We didn’t take off, and posted a whole bunch on BV, BV Chicago, and BV Austin, and here’s even more… As you can see above, Emceez Ansari is really good at photoshopping Aziz Ansari‘s face into album covers…