Kyle Forester

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums from Cate Le Bon, The Jazz Butcher, A Place to Bury Strangers, Los Bitchos, Love Burns, and The Reds, Pinks & Purples.

Today’s NYC-area shows include Armand Hammer & The Alchemist, The Blessed Madonna, Kip Berman, David Cross, and more

Tonight’s NYC-area shows include Modest Mouse, Digable Planets, The Roots, Damon & Naomi, Lil Tracy, and more

Kip Berman, who used to front The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, will release Tethers, his debut solo as The Natvral, on April 2

”I’m on my 10th day of home horror,” David tells us. ”Which is fine…I finally worked out how to use my portastudio so I can make shitty home LPs about running out of beer etc.”

Kyle Forester, who has played in Woods, Crystal Stilts, The Ladybug Transistor and more, releases his second solo album, Hearts in Gardens, this week.

Saturday options include Blood Incantation, Ween, Mick Trouble, ‘Live from Here’, Sheer Terror, Ceramic Dog and more.

Listen to new songs by Kamaiyah, Agnes Obel, Makaya McCraven, Basia Bulat, Jozef Van Wissem, Jockstrap, Rain of Salvation, Typecaste, Danny Brown, I Break Horses, James Elkington, and more.

Listen to new songs by Green Day, Chester Bennington’s ’90s band Grey Daze, Amitié, Karloff, WVRM, Tiña, Squirrel Flower, Peggy Sue, Kyle Forester, and more.

The music and spirit of Silver Jews/Purple Mountains frontman David Berman will be celebrated at Union Pool on January 4, which would’ve been his 53rd birthday. Performers will include members of both bands…