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.
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.
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.
"'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."