Melenas

NYC record store Other Music may be gone but we've got year-end lists from 20 of their staff members.

This week in the Indie Basement: the best records of 2020, focusing on classic indie, college rock, and more.

Plus Trey Anastasio, Ezra Furman, Princess Nokia, Hamilton Leithauser, Obituary, Paradise Lost, and more livestreams you can watch this week since there are no live concerts to attend.

Memphis' Gonerfest is going virtual this year, with exclusive performances from Quintron & Miss Pussycat, The Rebel, Cheater Slicks, Jack Oblivian & The Sheiks, Mary Tee & Bruce Brand, Mick Trouble...

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums from Mark Lanegan, I Break Horses and Melenas, plus The The reissue a rare early cassette, and new UK shoegaze band bdrmm.

Listen to new songs by The Magnetic Fields, Waxahatchee (Caroline Polachek cover), Daughters (Cramps cover), Amber Mark (Nirvana cover), DaBaby, Jeffrey Lewis, Nick Lowe, El Ten Eleven, Purity Ring, Orville Peck, Dandy Warhols, and more...

Our February 2020 playlist includes songs by Pop Smoke, Phoebe Bridgers, Sharon Van Etten, Grimes, Vampire Weekend, The Strokes, Bad Bunny, The Radio Dept, Perfume Genius, Waxahatchee, Jason Isbell, Pictish Trail, Gouge Away, Caribou, and more.

Pamplona, Spain is known more for its scenery than its indie rock scene but quartet Melenas are hoping to put it on the map with their very catchy style that pulls from garage rock, janglepop and shoegaze.

Just-announced additions include Bedouine, Big Joanie, Bush Tetras, Cassandra Jenkins, Good Fuck (Tim Kinsella + Jenny Pulse), Jess Williamson, JS Ondara, Kamaal Williams, Molly Burch, My Brightest Diamond, Priests, and Sir Babygirl.