Cold Beat

NYC record store Other Music may be gone but we’ve got year-end lists from 20 of their staff members.

This week in the Indie Basement: the best records of 2020, focusing on classic indie, college rock, and more.

Here’s weekly column Indie Basement’s favorite records from the first three months of 2020.

Our February 2020 playlist includes songs by Pop Smoke, Phoebe Bridgers, Sharon Van Etten, Grimes, Vampire Weekend, The Strokes, Bad Bunny, The Radio Dept, Perfume Genius, Waxahatchee, Jason Isbell, Pictish Trail, Gouge Away, Caribou, and more.

This week in the Basement: reviews of new albums by Caribou, Real Estate, The Orielles, Juniore, Cold Beat and Pictish Trail, plus a look at one of the more obscures album in the discography of David Roback (Mazzy Star, Opal, Rain Parade).

Our January 2020 playlist includes songs by CocoRosie, Hayley Williams, Thundercat, Destroyer, The 1975, Real Estate, Meek Mill, US Girls, Austra, Higher Power, Four Tet, Porridge Radio, Stephen Malkmus & more.

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums from Field Music and Jim Noir, plus a reissue of The Durutti Column’s Fidelity, baroque psych comp Tea & Symphony, and a new single from Cold Beat’s first album for DFA.

Our December 2019 playlist includes songs by MONO + A.A. Williams, Duster, Cindy Lee, MGMT, Caribou, Moses Sumney, Tyler the Creator, Vince Staples, Georgia Maq, Porridge Radio, and more.

Cold Beat, the minimal synth group led by Hannah Lew (Grass Widow), have signed to DFA and just released their first single for the label, ”Flat Earth.” Gentle and understated, it’s a really lovely pop song inspired by the wildfires that have ravaged southern California…

In celebration of new documentary ’Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records’ and Record Store Day, they’re touring the film with special free events featuring live performances by Ministry (doing an all ’80s/early-’90s set), Cold Cave and more…