John Cale

Michael Sheen’s toaster may be a portal to a different world in the fantastic video for Kelly Lee Owens’ “Corner Of My Sky.”

Voters included Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Stevie Nicks, John Cale, Wayne Coyne, Jimmy Cliff, Robert Smith, Waxahatchee, El-P, and over 300 others.

From shoegaze to Madchester, pop and hip hop, Sonic Youth to Cocteau Twins, it’s Indie Basement’s Top albums of 1990.

This week in the Basement: reviews of new albums from Kelly Lee Owens, Sweeping Promises and International Teachers of Pop, plus a reissue of Love Tractor’s debut album and a compilation of ’80s janglepop.

Listen to new songs by Whitney (David Byrne/Brian Eno cover), Kelly Lee Owens ft. John Cale, Young Jesus, Venomous Concept, Primitive Man, Paul Institute, 645AR/FKA twigs, Sad13, Cults, and more.

plus Joan as Police Woman, Dougie Poole, and more livestreams you can watch today since there are no live concerts to attend.

Two of Brian Eno’s ’90s collaborative albums are getting expanded reissues: 1990’s Wrong Way Up, which he made with John Cale; and 1995’s Spinner which was made with Jah Wobble.

The second episode of Henry’s longform online show features the original John Cale mixes of The Stooges’ 1969 debut album (happy birthday, Iggy), a 1985 Bad Brains show that Henry recorded, a Fall bootleg and more.

We lost Hal Willner yesterday. He was a gifted producer whose greatest skill may have been his ability to bring together disparate talents that you might not think would fit together but turned out to be truly inspired. One of the places where you can really see that in action was Night Music, a musical offshoot of Saturday Night Live that lasted two weird wonderful seasons…

The album, her first in three years, features The Velvet Underground’s John Cale and a cover of Radiohead’s “Arpeggi.”