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“Forty years is a looong time,“ says Peter Buck. “I’m more than gratified that Murmur is still floating around in the ether.”

The band, featuring members of R.E.M. and The Dream Syndicate, made their new album ‘Grand Salami Time‘ with Mitch Easter, who worked on R.E.M.’s first two albums.

Eyelids, the Portland band led by The Decemberists‘ John Moen and former Guided by Voices member Chris Slusarenko, worked again with producer Peter Buck for ‘A Colossal Waste of Light,‘ which is out in March

This week in Indie Basement: All the best records of 2022, with a focus on classic indie, college rock, and more.

On hand to perform and sing: Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Fred Armisen, Indigo Girls, John Cameron Mitchell, Darius Rucker, Mitch Easter, and more.

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.

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.

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

The No Ones are the intercontinental musical meeting of R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, frequent collaborator Scott McCaughey, and Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen and Frode Stromstad of Norwegian band I Was a King…

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…