Luke Haines
Indie Basement: Top 40 Albums of 2022
This week in Indie Basement: All the best records of 2022, with a focus on classic indie, college rock, and more.
Terry Hall remembered by Elvis Costello, Jerry Dammers, Jane Wiedlin, Madness, Billy Bragg & more
Also read tribute to The Specials’ Terry Hall from Massive Attack, The English Beat’s Dave Wakeling, Boy George, Squeeze’s Chris Difford, Rage Against the Machine, catbite, Frank Turner, and more.
Indie Basement (12/2): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more
This week in Indie Basement: The Auteurs, Metronomy, SAVAK, Ride’s Andy Bell, Langkamer, and more.
Indie Basement: Best Songs & Albums of October 2022
Featuring: Alvvays, Arctic Monkeys, Orbital x Sleaford Mods, Fever Ray, Meg Baird, Bill Callahan, Robert Forster, Billy Nomates, Sloan, Robyn Hitchcock, Metronomy, and more of the month’s best music.
Our favorite songs of the week (playlist)
This week’s playlist includes songs by SZA, Ice Spice, Nakhane (ft. Perfume Genius), Algiers (ft. Zack de la Rocha), Taken By Trees, Soccer Mommy, Cakes Da Killa, Phil Selway, Fred again.., and more.
Indie Basement (10/28): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more
This week’s Indie Basement reviews: Honey Harper, Luke Haines & Peter Buck, King Gizzard, Hammered Hulls (Alex MacKaye, Mary Timony), Drugdealer, I Was a King and more
87 albums we're anticipating for fall 2022
From Arctic Monkeys to Björk to The 1975 to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Alvvays to City of Caterpillar to Dry Cleaning to The Mars Volta to Mindforce to Pinkshift to Slipknot to Taylor Swift, here are 87 albums we can’t wait to hear before 2022 ends…
The Auteurs' Luke Haines & R.E.M.'s Peter Buck prep 'All The Kids Are Super Bummed Out' (stream a track)
Their second collaborative album, ‘All the Kids are Super Bummed Out‘ also features Scott McCaughey, Lenny Kaye, and more.
Cathal Coughlan of Microdisney and Fatima Mansions, RIP
He was 61. Read tributes to Cathal from former Microdisney bandmate Sean O’Hagan, Everything But the Girl’s Tracey Thorn, The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess, Luke Haines and more.
Our favorite songs of the week (playlist)
This week’s playlist includes new music by Kings of Convenience, Manchester Orchestra, DJ Khaled ft. Cardi B, Warpaint, Lou Barlow, Matt Sweeney & Bonnie Prince Billy, and more.