Jowe Head

Indie Basement (7/16): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums from late reggae legend U-Roy, Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew, A Place to Bury Strangers, and more.

Bill’s Indie Basement (12/8): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more

This week: a lost album from Television Personalities, former The Loft frontman Pete Astor, the debut solo album from Jackson MacIntosh of Sheer Agony, and LP #3 from Scotland’s The Spook School.

Faust played their first of three NYC-area shows at WFMU Monty Hall with Jowe Head and The Celestial Choir (pics, setlist)

Krautrock icons Faust are in the NYC-area for three shows as part of their current North American tour. The two original core members core of Faust, Werner “Zappi” Diermaier and Jan-Herve Peron aka The Art-errorist, are joined on this tour by a French guitarist/electronics/percussionist Maxime Manac’h, who is a regular touring partner in Europe…

Jowe Head (Swell Maps, TV Personalities) released new LP, playing East Coast shows, including 2 in NYC (dates, stream)

Onetime Swell Maps and Television Personalities member Jowe Head released Confessions from the Twisted Tower last year. The album’s somewhere between the postpunk bands he’s known for and proggy English folk, and can be streamed via Rdio below…

Kinski released 'Cosy Moments,' touring (dates and streams)

Long-running Seattle riff-n-drone combo Kinski just released their new Cosy Moments this week on Kill Rock Stars. You can stream a couple tracks from the album below…

Swell Maps' Jowe Head on East Coast tour, including three NYC shows (dates)

Head is probably best-known for his time as bassist in Swell Maps where he wrote two of the band’s catchiest songs, “Harmony in Your Bathroom” and the great “Cake Shop Girl” which did indeed inspire the name of the Ludlow St…

Swell Maps' Jowe Head playing 3 shows w/ all-star indie backing band & friends

Former Swell Maps and Television Personalities member Jowe Head, who you may have heard guest DJing recently on WFMU, is in NYC this week for three shows: Wednesday (4/20) at Rock Shop, Friday (4/22) at Bruar Falls, and Saturday (4/23) at Cake Shop…