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Bill's Indie Basement (10/19): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more

This week in the Basement: The Bevis Frond, a reissue of Silicon Teens’ ’Music for Parties,’ Saul from Fat White Family sings ’Karaoke for One,’ plus Dutch band Lewsberg, Kevin Hairs and more.

Remembering Cake Shop (pics, video, tributes)

The Lower East Side indie rock venue closed on New Year’s Eve weekend.

Wildhoney and Mercury Girls made us a year-end mix of their favorite 2016 songs (listen)

Mercury Girls have upcoming shows, including an NYC date in February with No Joy.

What's going on Thursday?

Hum/Touche Amore, Culture Club, Sleigh Bells, The Felice Brothers, Corrinne Bailey Rae, Louis CK, Cheetah Chrome, Lake Ruth, and more NYC show options tonight

What's going on Friday?

Tonight’s NYC shows include Modern Baseball/Joyce Manor/Thin Lips, Downtown Boys, Pissed Jeans/Lydia Lunch, Sting/Peter Gabriel, Ladyhawke, Soul Asylum/English Beat, Natural Child, and more.

a guide to NYC Popfest 2016 (which is this weekend)

Get your cardigans out: NYC Popfest is upon us and here’s an exhaustive guide to the weekend’s goings-on, including The Chills, Trashcan Sinatras, Allo Darlin’, The Railway Children, The Primitives & more.

Scottish cult band BMX Bandits playing two NYC shows this week

Perhaps better known for having members who’d end up in better known bands (Teenage Fanclub, Soup Dragons, Vaselines), Glasgow’s BMX Bandits — not unlike The Pooh Sticks — have played an important part in Scotland’s indie pop scene and have earned them cult status. (Kurt Cobain once said “If I could be in any other […]

The Hairs releasing new LP (stream "Barbarians"), playing NYC Popfest and other shows

Brooklyn indiepop outfit The Hairs have been in semi-hibernation the last few years but are now set to release new album While, I Hated Life, Barbarian on June 24 via Old Flame. (Vinyl’s limited to 300 copies, pre-order yours.)  The opening cut is “Barbarians,” a slightly less low-fi production than we’re used to hearing from The […]

The Chills playing first NYC show in 20 years at NYC Popfest (full lineup: Trashcan Sinatras, Primitives, Allo' Darlin & more)

This year marks the 10th edition of NYC Popfest which will happen May 19 – 22 at venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The lineup was just announced and the Popfest folks have really outdone themselves for this benchmarck year, with performances, Trash Can Sinatras, Allo’ Darlin, ’80s-era Factory Records band The Railway Children, Sarah Records labelmates Secret Shine, , and Even As We Speak, plus The Chesterfields, The Primitives, Alpaca Sports, Mercury Girls, The Hermit Crabs, Spook School, the live debut of Lake Ruth, and more…

Kyle Forester (Crystal Stilts, Ladybug Transistor) readies solo LP, shares "Won't Go Crazy Tonight," playing Cake Shop

You may know Kyle Forester as the affable, often wisecracking keyboardist for The Ladybug Transistor (and it’s offshoot O/R/F) and Crystal Stilts…
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