Pavement’s enduring influence: Dan Bejar, Parquet Courts & more musicians reflect
Destroyer's Dan Bejar, Nada Surf's Matthew Caws, Speedy Ortiz's Sadie Dupuis, Parquet Courts and more on the influence of Pavement as ‘Slanted and Enchanted‘ turns 30.
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Bill’s Indie Basement (3/27): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more
This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums from Activity, FACS, Deeper, Las Kellies and Euros Childs (Gorky's Zygotic Mynci), plus vinyl reissues of two mid-'90s Redd Kross albums.
Activity (mems Grooms, Russian Baths) announce debut LP, share first single
Activity, the new Brooklyn group featuring members of Grooms, Russian Baths and Field Mouse, release their debut album on March 27...
Stephen Malkmus, Mountain Goats, Kevin Morby, members of The National, Nada Surf, more pay tribute to David Berman
The Silver Jews and Purple Mountains frontman died today at age 52 and fellow artists have taken to social media to write tributes....
What’s going on Thursday?
Tonight's NYC shows include The Zombies, Lou Reed's Birthday Celebration, John Nolan, Tommy Stinson, The Spook School, and more.
Bill’s Indie Basement: Favorite LPs of 2017
This week it's the Indie Basement picks for best LPs of 2017, tilting heavily to classic indie, college rock, and more.
Cold Beat, Grooms and Yumi Zouma tell us their Top 10s of 2017
A few more year-end lists...
welcome to Bill’s Indie Basement: the week in classic indie, college rock, and more
This week we've got a new singles compilation from the mighty The Fall, the solo debut from The Intelligence's main brain Lars Finberg, synthy krautrock from Switzerland, a spooky new video from Grooms, and more.
Grooms made a custom DbA guitar pedal for new LP ‘Exit Index’ (out today, listen)
Grooms' new album Exit Index is out today. Made at the now-shuttered The Magic Shop (they were the last band to record there) with the same lineup as 2015's great Comb the Feelings Through Your Hair...
listen to Grooms’ “Magistrate Seeks Romance,” see their release show in NYC
"'Magistrate Seeks Romance' is about how daily life right now readily facilitates feeling like a good person," says Grooms' Travis Johnson. "While behaving like a bad one."