Heaven 17

‘The Invisible Man‘ EP features contributions from Oingo Boingo‘s Steve Bartek and Heaven 17‘s Martin Ware.

Tuesday’s NYC-area shows include Wolf Alice, Joan Shelley, S.G. Goodman, Zach Bryan, Heaven 17, and more.

Plus: City of Caterpillar, The Bronx / The Chats, Dia De Los Deftones, Cate Le Bon, Richard Thompson, Desert Daze, Bartees Strange, and more.

Plus: Interpol / Spoon, Teenage Wrist, These Arms Are Snakes, Elton John, Craven Idol, Angel Olsen, Foo Fighters, The National, Kraftwerk, Voivod, and more tour and festival news.

You can also read tributes to Morricone from Portishead's Geoff Barrow, Edgar Wright, Steven Van Zandt, Chance the Rapper, New Order, Duran Duran, Biz Markie, The Flaming Lips' Steven Drozd, Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch, Jean Michel Jarre, and more.

The UK synthpop vets' first ever North American tour was to have been in May but got postponed and has now been rescheduled to...

While the coronavirus has caused all tours to be cancelled through the spring if not early summer, there were long-awaited and rare events that nobody saw coming in the first place that were suddenly cut short -- most notably reunions -- that fall into their own special subcategory of ”this sucks.”

Heaven 17's "We Don't Need This Fascist Groove Thang" tour brings the '80s synthpop vets to the U.S. and Canada in May.

Plus: The House of Love, The Bush Tetras, Big Country, Pronoun, DMX, Cam'ron, Quasi, Garcia Peoples, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, and more tour-related news.

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of the new Eddy Current Suppression Ring album, the 'Lodge 49' soundtrack and a four-disc comp of Sheffield post-punk, plus John Myrtle and Handle.