Adam Franklin

Both the ’99th Dream’ reissue and Bolts of Melody’s ‘Film Noir’ will be out January 19

Thursday’s NYC-area shows include The Flaming Lips, Algernon Cadwallader, Mary J. Blige, Deadguy, Robert Glasper, and more.

Shoegaze greats Swervedriver released three albums on Creation Records in the ’90s and his picks from the label include The Jesus & Mary Chain, Ride, My Bloody Valentine, and more.

Read tributes from Jonathan Toubin, Anton Newcombe, Sweverdriver’s Adam Franklin, and more.

Swervedriver’s new album ’Future Ruins’ is out January 25. Adam’s 2018 song pics include Oh Sees, The Beatles, The Bevis Frond, and more.

Tanya Donelly, Lou Barlow, Juliana Hatfield & more also contribute.

“…Simply put, from the first note of opening stunner “Last Train to Satansville” (from 1993’s Mezcal Head), Swervedriver dominated. A sonic tour de force dominated by vocalist/guitarist Adam Franklin and tour fill-in drummer Mikey Jones (who did a TREMENDOUS job filling in for Graham Bonnar, who played with them last year but couldn’t play on this tour) and augmented nicely by guitarist Jimmy Hartridge and bassist Steve George, most of this show saw Swervedriver stick to the raw, guttural, heavy punch of its first two Lps (1991’s Raise and the aforementioned Mezcal Head)…

As mentioned, Swervedriver play a headlining show at Bowery Ballroom in NYC tonight (3/31). Tickets are still on sale, and since we last spoke, NYC trio Heaven (whose members have been or are in The Comas, Dean and Britta, Ambulance LTD, The Big Sleep, Adam Franklin’s band, Snowden, and Fan-Tan), was added as opener for this show and others…

Swervedriver’s Adam Franklin & The Bolts of Melody are spending the tail end of Septmeber and into October on the road. Tonight finds them not only smack in the middle of their East Coast jaunt, but also at Mercury Lounge in NYC (9/30)…

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Neon Indian show happening at Mercury Lounge in December. Neon Indian last played NYC during CMJ. This weekend they play in Austin at Fun Fun Fun Fest…