Crystal Stilts

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums from Cate Le Bon, The Jazz Butcher, A Place to Bury Strangers, Los Bitchos, Love Burns, and The Reds, Pinks & Purples.

Listen to new songs by Leikeli47, Joliette, Age of Apocalypse, Kendra Morris, Love Burns, and more...

Bandcamp Friday is here, which means Bandcamp is waiving its cut of sales and giving 100% of profits to artists and labels, some of whom are also donating profits to various causes...

Kyle Forester, who has played in Woods, Crystal Stilts, The Ladybug Transistor and more, releases his second solo album, Hearts in Gardens, this week.

This week in Bill's Indie Basement: his favorite albums of the last decade, focusing on classic indie, college rock, and more.

The Lower East Side indie rock venue closed on New Year's Eve weekend.

Ladybug Transistor and Crystal Stilts keyboardist Kyle Forester will release his self-titled solo album in May and he's just released another song off it, "Didn't Try to Run Away." Kyle's got a way with the kind of lightly-strummed guitar pop ofter associated with the early '70s, and this is another good example of his talent...

You may know Kyle Forester as the affable, often wisecracking keyboardist for The Ladybug Transistor (and it's offshoot O/R/F) and Crystal Stilts...

NXNE has added a lot more artists to its 2015 edition which happens June 17 - 21 at venues all over Toronto, ON. Additions include Atlas Sound who will play a BrooklynVegan-presented show at Lee's Palace on 6/19 with Foxes in Fiction, Holydrug Couple, Fresh Snow and more TBA...

and Bill Pearis We love year-end lists -- reading them, making them, arguing about them. BrooklynVegan editors Andrew Sacher and Bill Pearis have once again figured out their favorite albums of the year which you can check out, with commentary, below...