The Auteurs

This week in Indie Basement: The Auteurs, Metronomy, SAVAK, Ride’s Andy Bell, Langkamer, 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

Their second collaborative album, ‘All the Kids are Super Bummed Out‘ also features Scott McCaughey, Lenny Kaye, and more.

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums from Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Teenage Fanclub, Guided by Voices, Luke Haines (The Auteurs), Róisín Murphy, Paul Jacobs (Pottery), and more.

The annual comedy and music benefit is going virtual this year with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Bill Callahan, Vanessa Bayer, Fred Armisen, Sleaford Mods, John Darnielle, David Pajo, AC Newman, Mary Timony, Steve Albini, and more scheduled to appear.

Dave Kusworth led Jacobites with Nikki Sudden, and also played in The Hawks, TV Eye, The Bounty Hunters, and more. Read tributes from members of Teenage Fanclub, The Auteurs, and more.

Members of Kiss, Genesis, The Pop Group, The Smiths, Blur, Testament, Franz Ferdinand, E Street Band, Sleaford Mods, and more have also paid tribute to the legendary Fleetwood Mac co-founder…

This week: reviews of new releases from Vivian Girls, Chastity Belt, and Operator Music Band, plus career retrospective comps from Black Box Recorder and The Springfields.

This week in the Indie Basement: Simian Mobile Disco’s glorious ’Murmerations,’ cult dreampop artist Happy Rhodes, former Auteurs frontman Luke Haines, shoegazers Film School, pop ironists TV Girl, and Montreal synthpop band Paupière.

Luke Haines has a long and impressive musical resume, having been in a number of notable bands over the last 30 years (C86 indiepop band The Servants in the ’80s, the Kinks-y group The Auteurs in the ’90s, and frostbit synthpop trio Black Box Recorder), and a few high concept one-offs (Baader Meinhof, The North Sea Scrolls)…