The dBs
Holiday Ghosts tell us about their favorite power pop songs
Holiday Ghosts’ power pop faves include The dB’s, Squeeze, The Nerves, Big Star, and more…
Indie Basement (2/2): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more
This week in Indie Basement: J. Mascis, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Kirin J Callinan, Plantoid, Maxwell Farrington & Le SuperHomard, The Paranoid Style, and more.
The dB's Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey and more playing 'Trouser Press' 50th anniversary party
Legendary ’70s/’80s music mag ‘The Trouser Press’ turns 50 in March and they’ll be celebrating with a special NYC anniversary party also featuring Dennis Diken (Smithereens) and more…
The Salt Collective ft Matthew Caws & more touring with Sneakers (Mitch Easter & Chris Stamey): watch "Another Bus Coming" video
The Salt Collective are a supergroup whose debut album features Juliana Hatfield, Matthew Sweet, The dB’s, and more.
The Paranoid Style preps new LP, shares "I Love the Sound of Structured Class" ft Peter Holsapple
‘The Interrogator’ will be out February 2 via Bar/None.
Indie Basement (7/7): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more
This week in Indie Basement: Chris Stamey (The dB’s), The Fall, a Nick Drake tribute and Baxter Dury collaborator Delilah Holliday.
Chris Stamey preps new LP, covers Alex Chilton's "She Might Look My Way" (watch the video)
Chris Stamey‘s new album ‘…The Great Escape‘ is out July 7.
Mems of REM, dB's, Posies, & more playing Big Star's '#1 Record' in full on tour for its 50th Anniversary
Big Star drummer Jody Stephens will be joined by Chris Stamey (dB’s), Mike Mills (REM), Jon Auer (Posies) and Pat Sansone to play ‘#1 Record‘ in full on six East Coast dates this fall…
Members of REM, Yo La Tengo, dB's & more played "The Songs of Big Star" in Brooklyn (pics, video, setlist)
In addition to the songs of Big Star and Chris Bell, the tribute show also had Mike Mills singing REM’s “Don’t Go Back to Rockville.“
The dB's releasing album of early demos (listen to "Bad Reputation")
“What we have here are home and field recordings of the dB’s,” says the band’s Peter Holsapple. “Most of these tracks predate the release of ’Stands for deciBels’ by two to three years.“
