Connections

This week’s Indie Basement reviews: Depeche Mode, DEBBY FRIDAY, The Reds Pinks & Purples, Heartworms, Purling Hiss, Connections, Noble Rot, and more.

Listen to new songs by Dazy, Bongzilla, Veeze, Stars (Yumi Zouma remix), Holiday Ghosts, Wand‘s Cory Hanson, Shannon Lay (Nick Drake cover), Glass Casket, and more…

Listen to new songs by HIRS/Frank Iero, Skrillex, CEO Trayle, New Pagans, Lucero, Andy Shauf, Gina Birch, Florry, Tiny Ruins, Anna B Savage, Pile, Moby, and more…

Ohio indie rock stalwarts Connections will release their new album Foreign Affairs on May 11 via Trouble in Mind.

This week in the basement: Wire reissues their first three albums; the return of UK band The Bees (but under a new name); Ohio indie rockers and soon-to-be Kurt Vile tourmates Connections; new Italians Do it Better artist Tess Roby; and more.

Kurt Vile spent 2017 doing a collaborative album and tour with Courtney Barnett (which was then turned into a documentary), but he’s back to focusing on his own material in 2018…

Brooklyn trio EZTV making very hooky, jangly, powerpop, very much in the tradition of ’80s artists like the dB’s, Tommy Keene or Let’s Active who were, in turn, inspired by The Rasberries and Big Star…

As mentioned, Australian bands Ausmuteants and The Stevens were both recently added to the lineup of Gonerfest 11 which happens September 24 – 28 in Memphis, TN…

“Now that we’ve taken a day to absorb a week of music at SXSW 2014, the Reverb staff has put together its picks of best shows. A clear stand-out is St…