Andrew Weatherall

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums by Arab Strap, Jane Weaver, Billy Nomates and Fake Fruit, plus Maxwell Farrington & Le SuperHomard, a new Telex best-of, and Flowered Up’s baggy classic “Weekender” gets a vinyl repress.

Andy Bell’s debut solo album, The View from Halfway Down, is out this Friday. From Bowie to Spacemen 3, he talks us through the influences on the LP.

Listen to new songs by Actress/Sampha, John Frusciante, John Cameron Mitchell, Daniel Avery, Monica, Eels, Cut Worms, Tobin Sprout, Mozzy, and more…

The Scottish indiepop group, who appeared on NME’s famed ‘C-86’ cassette, released their first album in 32 back in Febraury.

This week: reviews of new records from Julian Cope, the late Andrew Weatherall, Daisies, Spinning Coin, Capricorn One (Ed Ackerson, RIP), and Lithuanian minimal wave band Solo Ansamblis.

He worked on Primal Scream’s Screamadelica and more. Read tributes from Primal Scream, New Order, Paul Oakenfold, Irvine Welsh, The Chemical Brothers, The Charlatans, Saint Etienne and more.

This week in Indie Basement: a review of Destroyer’s ‘Have We Met,’ plus reissues from Cocteau Twins and Happy Mondays, and Super Furry Animals offshoot Das Koolies.

Just in time for Brexit, this protest song features a Who’s Who of UK Post-Punk, including most of PiL’s Metal Box lineup, The Pop Group’s Mark Stewart and Killing Joke’s Youth.

London’s All Points East festival happens across two weekend this spring in London’s Victoria Park and includes The Strokes, Chemical Brothers, Bon Iver, Christine and the Queens, James Blake, The Raconteurs, Jarvis Cocker, Mac DeMarco and more.

If iPods still existed, they’d be in all the commercials, and their debut, ’Confident Music for Confident People,’ is disposable, silly, gloriously cheesy and one of the most fun records of the year.