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Bill's Indie Basement (1/11): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more

This week in the Basement: vinyl reissues from New Order and Prefab Sprout, plus new music from Business of Dreams (Corey of Terry Malts), the return of Cleveland’s Herzog, and new UK singer-songwriter Whoa Melodic.

Cassette Store Day 2015: full list of exclusive titles

Cassette Store Day is back for its third year, celebrating the glory of tape, and happens October 17 in North America, UK, Australia, New Zeleand and Germany…

Herzog released 'Boys,' playing two NYC shows this week and added to Northside Fest (updated dates, LP stream)

Cleveland band Herzog released their terrific new album, Boys, a couple weeks back. As I wrote previously, Boys is ’90s-style indie/alt rock, loaded with hooks and extremely quotable lyrics (via lyricist-in-residence Tony Vorell who doesn’t play with the band live)…

Cleveland's Herzog releasing new album (stream a track), playing NYC this weekend and other dates

Indie rock, in the trad ’90s sense, has probably been fully explored by this point but something about it never puts it completely out of style…

stream a track from Toronto punks PUP, see them in NYC

Canada has been the breeding ground for some of the world’s best punk rock lately (White Lung, Single Mothers, Greys, etc), and Toronto’s PUP (formerly Topanga) are no exception to that rule…