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Indie Basement: 2023's Best Reissues and Box Sets

Featuring: The Replacements, New Order, Acetone, The Lemonheads, The Dream Syndicate, Fun Boy Three, Kirsty MacColl, and more.

Indie Basement (10/6): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more

This week in Indie Basement: Parquet Courts’ A. Savage, Pale Saints, The Bees, Vanishing Twin, Creation Rebel, Field Music’s Peter Brewis, EXEK, and more.

Pale Saints' 'In Ribbons' gets 30th anniversary 2-LP vinyl reissue; listen to "Kinky Love" demo

This is the first vinyl pressing of ’In Ribbons’ since its initial 1992 release, and it comes with a bonus disc of demos and more. It’s out October 6 via 4AD.

Indie Basement (3/25): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums by Destroyer, Aldous Harding, Loop, Jarvis Cocker, Young Prisms, Ex-Vöid (ex Joanna Gruesome), P.E. (Pill + Eaters), Ibibio Sound Machine, and more.

Pale Saints' majestic second album 'In Ribbons' turns 30

Pale Saints were in some ways the ultimate 4AD band of the label’s original era, combining the ethereal beauty of The Cocteau Twins, the roar of Pixies, and the off-kilter quirk of Throwing Muses…

Pale Saints/His Name Is Alive offshoot ESP Summer made us a psych playlist

ESP Summer, the duo of Ian Masters (Pale Saints) and Warren Defever (His Name is Alive), recently released new album ‘Kingdom of Heaven,’ and and have now made us a companion playlist…

Pale Saints' Ian Masters & His Name is Alive's Warren Defever released new ESP Summer LP (listen)

Masters and Defever, who were 4AD labelmates in the ’90s with Pale Saints and His Name is Alive, revived the ESP Summer collaboration last year.

Indie Basement (7/30): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums from LUMP (Laura Marling & Tunng’s Mike Lindsay), former One Dove singer Dot Allison, Bloodslide (members of Protomartyr & Preoccupations), plus reissues from Half String and Magic Roundabout.

'80s Manchester band Magic Roundabout releasing lost debut on Third Man

Obscure ’80s UK band Magic Roundabout are finally releasing their debut album, 34 years after breaking up. “Magic Roundabout are one of those that showed so much promise,“ says Pulp’s Marc Webber. “We all had dreams. Some dreams take longer to come true.”

Shoot the Singer: 20 Great Instrumentals by Non-Instrumental Bands

From The Cure, R.E.M. and The Smiths, to Broken Social Scene, Pavement, Portishead and more, here are 20 songs by bands where the singers keep their mouths shut.
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