SAVAK

Parisian band Pays P. toured with Big Thief right before the pandemic and will release their debut album in September.

Teenage Halloween, LAPÊCHE, SAVAK, Shilpa Ray and more are lined up to play the free, all-ages series which is presented by the New Colossus Festival.

We lost Minneapolis musician and producer Ed Ackerson last year and in tribute artists and friends have covered his songs, including Soul Asylum, The Ocean Blue, Motion City Soundtrack, and more.

Over 600 artists have signed onto the campaign so far, which was launched by the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers.

This week in the Basement: reviews of new albums from Billy Nomates and Ganser, plus New Order’s Power, Corruption and Lies gets the box set treatment, a new series of Ennio Morricone compilations, and Edsel unearth a “lost” EP.

DC band Edsel, who released records on Dischord, DeSoto, Jade Tree, Grass and others, broke up in 1997 but here’s a lost EP the band recorded in 2001…

Over 60 videos shot by former Edsel / current SAVAK vocalist Sohrab Habibion in the ’80s have been newly digitized and released for free online, including footage of 7Seconds, Moss Icon, Shudder To Think, The Lemonheads, Scream, Soul Side, and much more…

Today’s Bandcamp fundraiser includes new special/exclusive releases by Marissa Nadler, Animal Collective, Cloud Nothings, PUP, boygenius, Jason Isbell, Sonic Youth, Ride’s Andy Bell, Frankie Cosmos, and more…

Exclusive/special releases for today’s Bandcamp fundraiser include Ty Segall & Cory Hanson, Torres, Protomartyr, Marissa Nadler, Girls Names, Beach Fossils, Corpus, Fruit Bats, Laurel Halo, Less than Jake, NNAMDÏ, Pelican, Shopping, Strand of Oaks, Superchunk, The Clientele, Black Midi, and more.

Our April 2020 playlist includes songs by Frank Ocean, Phoebe Bridgers, The 1975, Fiona Apple, PUP, The Strokes, Jamie xx, BC Camplight, Khruangbin, Bright Eyes, Laura Marling, Kelly Lee Owens, Megan Thee Stallion with Beyonce, DaBaby, Lido Pimienta, Chromatics and more.