Bill Pearis

‘The Ultra Vivid Lament‘ is Manic Street Preachers’ 14th album and features appearances from Mark Lanegan and Sunflower Bean’s Julia Cumming. It’s out in September.

London four-piece Horsey will release their debut album, ‘Debonair,‘ this summer.

Andy Bell‘s new EP features blissed-out remixes by Pye Corner Audio and is part of the Ever Decreasing Circles series he's releasing this year.

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of great new albums by Paul Weller, Juliana Hatfield, The Chills, Matt Berry, and more.

Springsteen says the new album is “largely set in the West.“

“We are devastated to say that our guiding spirit, instigator, inciter—the person who, to most of us, lived under the name Jack Terricloth—has left us for the astral plane“ -World/Inferno Friendship Society. Read tributes from Laura Jane Grace, Jeff Rosenstock, Craig Finn…

Dead & Company -- featuring Grateful Dead's Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann along with John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti -- kick off their 31-date tour on August 16 and it runs through Halloween.

The iconic 1971 compilation introduced much of the world to Jamaican music and features Jimmy Cliff, Derrick Morgan, The Maytals, The Ethiopians, Desmond Dekker, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, and more.

NYC's Vision Festival returns in 2021, happening July 22-31 with performances by Lifetime Achievement recipient Amina Claudine Myers, plus a Milford Graves tribute, Nicole Mitchell, James Blood Ulmer, Andrew Cyrille, Matthew Shipp, Ava Mendoza and more.

Edgar Wright‘s wonderful Sparks documentary is out in the US/Canada in June.