Gary Smith owned legendary Cambridge, MA studio Fort Apache and produced records by Pixies, Throwing Muses, The Chills, Blake Babies and more. Read tributes from Billy Bragg, Tanya Donelly, and others
Plus: Calgary Folk Fest, Tim Barry (AVAIL), Postal Service / Death Cab, Ghais Guevara, Drug Church / Prince Daddy, Touche Amore, and more tour and festival news.
Drummer Anton Fier also played with Swans, Bob Mould, Lloyd Cole, Yoko Ono, Pere Ubu, Bill Laswell, John Zorn, Paul Haig, Arto Lindsay, and more. He was 66.
This week's Indie Basement reviews: Hollie Cook, Real Estate's Martin Courtney, Wire, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Tim Heidecker, Air's JB Dunckel, and more.
BOAT‘s seventh album features appearances by Glenn Mercer (The Feelies), LAKE, Karl Blau, Ethan Jones (Math & Physics Club), Anna Arvan (I Love You Avalanche), Kevin Hairs, Evan Mosher (Awesome), The Crystal Furs and more