Grooms

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, the new Brooklyn group featuring members of Grooms, Russian Baths and Field Mouse, release their debut album on March 27...

The Silver Jews and Purple Mountains frontman died today at age 52 and fellow artists have taken to social media to write tributes....

Tonight's NYC shows include The Zombies, Lou Reed's Birthday Celebration, John Nolan, Tommy Stinson, The Spook School, and more.

This week it's the Indie Basement picks for best LPs of 2017, tilting heavily to classic indie, college rock, and more.

A few more year-end lists...

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' 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...

"'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."

Brooklyn trio Grooms will release their new album, Exit Index, will be out October 20 via Western Vinyl. They made the LP at The Magic Stop recording studio, which closed last year. Grooms were the last band to record there. "It was the end," says singer/guitarist Travis&…