MINKS

This week in Bill's Indie Basement: his favorite albums of the last decade, focusing on classic indie, college rock, and more.

and Bill Pearis We've done some year-end lists in the past at BrooklynVegan, though you might notice that we're not the most consistent with them...

Tickets to see Van Morrison at The Theater at Madison Square Garden go on AmEx presale today at 11 AM. Tickets to the The Breeders shows at Webster Hall go on AmEx presale today at noon...

As they do every year, Seattle radio station KEXP will be in NYC for CMJ broadcasting live and hosting free performances from some of this year's participating bands...

MINKS sophomore album, Tides End, was released this week via Captured Tracks. As mentioned, main man Sonny Kilfoyle makes an about-face from 2011's tunefully dour By the Hedge, this time bright, shimmery, wistful and loaded with extremely hummable pop songs...

Mac Demarco @ Savannah Stopover 2013 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)If you could go back in time and give yourself one piece of advice right before the first two captured tracks releases...

MINKS are back with their second album, Tides End, which will be out August 6 on Captured Tracks. That's the cover art above. Made after main man Sonny Kilfoyle decamped to the East End of Long Island, the record is a marked deprature from MINKS' debut, trading in murky, reverbed production for sparkling, synth-heavy pop with catchy song after catchy song...

DIIV at Austin's Red 7 in April (more by Tim Griffin) DIIV are about to hook up with Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Doldrums on their tour which kicks off this week...

Black Lips @ Bowery Ballroom in August (more by Diana Wong) The Black Lips will be peforming live from NYC over the internet today, 10/27, at 2pm EST...

DOWNLOAD: Dive - "Sometime" (MP3) Last Friday (10/7) at 285 Kent saw the busy-body Brooklyn band Dive support Friends with Night Manager, Heaven's Gate, Kevinz Gate and DJ Cassie Ramone...