
Bill’s Indie Basement: Favorite Albums of 2018
This week in the Indie Basement: Bill's favorite albums of 2018, focusing on classic indie, college rock, and more.
This week in the Indie Basement: Bill's favorite albums of 2018, focusing on classic indie, college rock, and more.
A pizza delivery guy must resist temptation to eat his own product in the video for Seattle trio Wimps' standout cut from their new LP.
Our August 2018 playlist includes new tracks by boygenius, Big Red Machine, Tirzah, Empress Of, Moses Sumney, Yves Tumor, mewithoutYou, Cloud Nothings, The Beths, Public Practice, Lindstrom, Robyn, Aphex Twin, and more.
Plus: Jake Shears, Odetta Hartman, Tom Morello, the Snoop Dogg musical, and more tour news.
This week: Manchester/Factory Records vets A Certain Ratio return with their first single in 10 years; sparkling, crunchy power-pop from New Zealand's The Beths; more new music from Australian band Terry's forthcoming third album; and great new albums from Seattle bands The Purrs and Wimps.
The 2018 edition of Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival happens Labor Day Weekend (August 31 - September 2) at the Seattle Center. The lineup has just been announced and includes Fleet Foxes, SZA, J. Cole, Portugal. The Man, Phoenix T-Pain, Rhye, Kelela, Lil Wayne, Young Thug, Dr. Octagon, Moses Sumney, The Revolution, Cherry Glazerr, Nothing, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Maxo Kream, Let's Eat Grandma and more.
In addition to a Treepeople reunion and Built to Spill, the initial lineup includes George Clinton, Zola Jesus, Andrew WK, Titus Andronicus, U.S. Girls, Twin Peaks, and more.
Get your set times here.
Seattle trio Wimps -- whose lineup includes Rachel Ratner (Butts), Matt Nyce (Meth Teeth), and Dave Ramm (The Intelligence) -- put out their latest album Suitcase this past November on Kill Rock Stars. The band now gave the video treatment to "Couches, a dose of fidgety post-punk with a serious emphasis on "punk"...
The 2016 Treefort Music Fest goes on March 23-27 in Boise, Idaho in venues all over the city. (It's kinda like Boise's SXSW.) This year's lineup includes Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, Thee Oh Sees, Youth Lagoon, Aesop Rock, Chelsea Wolfe, White Denim, Oddisee, Hinds, French Horn Rebellion, Quilt, Alex G, Wax Idols, Built To Spill, La Luz, All Dogs, Porches, Oddisee (who plays a BV show in NYC on Tuesday)...