Yo La Tengo's eighth album, ’I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One,’ turns 25 today with a digital deluxe edition (including Kevin Shields remix), new colored vinyl, and director's cut of the ”Sugarcube” video with Bob Odenkirk & David Cross
My Bloody Valentine‘s ‘Loveless‘ turned 30 and the whole band shared stories, rare photos and more in a "masterclass" edition of Tim's Twitter Listening Party. "I often wound up in a puddle of water by the time we finished recording," Kevin Shields said
Inspired by the release of Hum's first album in 22 years, we put together a list of 30 essential songs that occupy the middle ground between shoegaze and heavier music - a sound which has existed for decades but is now more prominent than ever.
Ahead of the vinyl reissue of MBV's 1988 classic ‘Isn't Anything‘ the band took part in a Tim's Twitter Listening Party discussion of the album. “The local cows seemed to like these new sounds very much“ - Kevin Shields
This week in the Basement: reviews of new records by The Bats, Molchat Doma, Chilly Gonzales (ft. Feist & Jarvis Cocker), Tricky, Bent, Le Volume Courbe, and more.