Lloyd Cole

Listen to new music by Lies, Weird Nightmare (Alex of METZ), Jane Remover, Jenny Hval, Christian Lee Hutson, Tancred, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Röyksopp, Lowly, and more.

Read tributes to Levene from Jah Wobble, Thurston Moore, Andy Bell, Anton Newcombe, Adrian Sherwood and more.

Drummer Anton Fier also played with Swans, Bob Mould, Lloyd Cole, Yoko Ono, Pere Ubu, Bill Laswell, John Zorn, Paul Haig, Arto Lindsay, and more. He was 66.

Plus: Stars, Dijon, Saba, Dry Cleaning, Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, and more tour and festival news.

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

You can also read tributes to Little Richard from Ringo Starr, Chuck D, Yoko Ono, Chance the Rapper, Krist Novoselic, Gene Simmons, The Kinks’ Dave Davies, Billy Bragg, Margo Price, Lloyd Cole, Frank Turner, and more.

Tributes have also come in from Jean Michel Jarre, Midge Ure (Ultravox), the Safdie Brothers, Orbital, The Orb, Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet), Lloyd Cole, Geoff Rickly (Thursday), Kid Congo Powers, Junior Boys, JD Samson, and many more.

Today’s picks for live videos to watch while you’re home and every show is cancelled include Bonny Light Horseman at Newport Folk Fest, Kurt Vile solo in Berlin, Grimes at Outside Lands, Lloyd Cole & the Commotions in 1984, Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians in 1985, and more…

“Even before this thing hit, I resolved to try to listen to some new music,” Lloyd tells us of the wide-ranging quarantine playlist he’s given us. “Not necessarily new to the world, but new to me.”

Fountains of Wayne and Ivy co-founder Adam Schlesinger died today from complications of COVID-19. It’s been a real shock — he was just 52 — and there’s been an outpouring of tributes from all over the spectrum…