This week in Indie Basement: review of new albums by The New Pornographers, Deerhoof, A Certain Ratio, Sondre Lerche, The Dears' Murray A Lightburn and more.
You can also read tributes from Lloyd Cole, Real Estate, The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs, Robyn Hitchcock, Primal Scream, Nada Surf's Matthew Caws, AC Newman, Marc Maron, and more.
The comp comes with a web presentation featuring essays and commentary from David Byrne, Shirley Manson, Waxahatchee, Julien Baker, Kevin Morby, Allison Russell, Margo Price, and more...
”We’ve been out in this world trying to be as cautious as possible, as cautious as I’ve been in 18 months, and we still had to cancel 5 shows,” AC Newman writes.
The soundtrack to new Netflix animated film ‘The Mitchells vs. the Machines‘ includes songs by Los Campesinos!, Bangs, Talking Heads, Le Tigre, Sigur Rós, Grimes, Alex Lahey and more.
This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums by Tindersticks, Mogwai, and The Fall, plus Sloan's Patrick Pentland goes solo, and a look at the '90s Nova Scotia alt-rock scene.