Jarvis Cocker

This Jarvis’ first new album since 2009’s Further Complications. and will be out May 1 via Rough Trade.

These will be Jarvis’ first NYC show since Pulp played Radio City Music Hall in 2012.

From Frank Ocean to Jarvis Cocker to Moses Sumney to The 1975 to Hayley Williams to Phoebe Bridgers to Matt Berninger, here are 29 of the albums we’re anticipating in the new year.

This week in the Indie Basement: Bill’s favorite records of 2019, focusing on classic indie, college rock, and more.

”Running the World” is currently the subject of a fan campaign to get the 2006 song back into the UK charts and be the 2019 Christmas #1. ”These are cold, hard times but initiatives like this campaign make me feel all warm & hopeful inside,” says Jarvis. ”Christmasy even.”

”If you thought things had changed, friend, you’d better think again / Bluntly put, in the fewest of words, cunts are still running the world.” – Jarvis Cocker

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of the new Eddy Current Suppression Ring album, the ‘Lodge 49’ soundtrack and a four-disc comp of Sheffield post-punk, plus John Myrtle and Handle.

Black Midi had the Warsaw crowd — which included Jarvis Cocker! — riveted during their 90-minute set.

Jarvis’ list includes albums by The Beatles, The B-52s, Serafina Steer, Terry Riley, Bill Callahan, The Pastels, and more.

This week: reviews of new albums from Moon Duo, Kelley Stoltz, and Automatic, plus Jarvis Cocker compiles the best of his ’Sunday Service’ radio show and two trips to Switzerland via Klaus Johann Grobe and Neutral Zone.