Happy Mondays

From '90s ska to Nina Simone, from Anti-Flag to the history of hip hop, there's something for everyone in this roundup of new and recent documentaries to stream.

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums from Shaun Ryder (Happy Mondays), Tropical Fuck Storm, and Jim Bob (Carter USM), plus HUSHPUPPY, the return of Cud, and Suburban Lawns' debut is reissued on vinyl.

“In my delusional ADHD brain it’s my Sgt. Pepper full of different flavoured songs.“

1995 was the peak year for Britpop with the "Blur Vs Oasis" feud, and nearly every major player in the scene releasing an album. We ranked the 20 best.

Former Happy Mondays tour manager Anthony Murray was arrested along with 15 others at a port in Istanbul when authorities found 500 pounds of cocaine hidden inside 3,500 bags of fertilizer aboard a ship from Colombia...

Yes, there are Bez shirts.

From shoegaze to Madchester, pop and hip hop, Sonic Youth to Cocteau Twins, it's Indie Basement's Top albums of 1990.

You're never too old to rock and roll, as this love letter to these two legendary superfans proves. Featuring interviews with Happy Mondays, The Hold Steady, New Order, The Charlatans and more, Dennis and Lois is now available on streaming services.

The lineup also includes Robyn, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Kacey Musgraves, FKA twigs, Primal Scream, Angel Olsen, Big Thief, and more...

This week in Indie Basement: a review of Destroyer's 'Have We Met,' plus reissues from Cocteau Twins and Happy Mondays, and Super Furry Animals offshoot Das Koolies.