Featuring Blur, Sparks, bar italia, Mandy Indiana, Alison Goldfrapp, Girl Ray, King Hannah, Pip Blom, MEMORIALS, Sweeping Promises, Cut Worms, and more of May's best stuff, plus a 55-song playlist
Blur are currently playing a few intimate warm-up shows for their upcoming UK/EU tour, and Sunday's show featured ”Sunday Sunday” and a few more songs they hadn't played in many years...
This week's playlist includes new music by Blur, Róisín Murphy, Genesis Owusu, Girl Ray, Julie Byrne, Bad Bunny, Morgan Wade, Lord Huron, Kaytraminé (ft. Freddie Gibbs), Mandy Indiana, and more.
Record Store Day 2023 is April 23 and this year's exclusive titles include Jonathan Richman, Pearl Jam, Bjork, Blur, David Byrne, Ol Dirty Bastard, The Sisters Of Mercy, Prefab Sprout, Ramones, Todd Rundgren, Sparks, Rza, Joe Strummer, Wilco, and more
The WAEVE‘s self-titled debut is out now and Graham and Rose's influences for it include Talk Talk, Fairport Convention, Broadcast, Gong, Young Marble Giants and more.
This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums by John Cale, Guided by Voices, Ladytron, The Murder Capital, Blur drummer David Rowntree, The Bad Ends (ft R.E.M.'s Bill Berry), The C.I.A. (Denée & Ty Segall), and more.
“Get ready for the biggest Times Square takeover since that other gorilla smashed the place up,“ say Gorillaz, who are presenting “Skinny Ape“ AR events in Times Square and Piccadilly Circus.