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Indie Basement: Best Songs & Albums of May 2023

Featuring Blur, Sparks, bar italia, Mandy Indiana, Alison Goldfrapp, Girl Ray, King Hannah, Pip Blom, MEMORIALS, Sweeping Promises, Cut Worms, and more of May’s best stuff, plus a 55-song playlist

MEMORIALS (Electrelane / Wire) announce debut album, share "Tramps!"

MEMORIALS, the duo of Verity Susman (Electrelane) and Matthew Simms (It Hugs Back, Wire), will release their debut double album, ‘Music for Film,‘ on May 12…

Electrelane's Verity Susman & Wire's Matthew Simms releasing charity single (listen)

Verity Susman of Electrelane and Matthew Simms of Wire have shared two songs from ‘Women Against the Bomb,’ a new documentary they scored. They’ll be available for Bandcamp Friday and benefit…

pics: Chastity Belt, It Hugs Back & Girl Ray @ London's The Dalston Victoria

The crowd in this Dalston pub are sneering (or singing) along with her, the room packed to the rafters and stiflingly sweaty, despite the October winter drawing in outside…