Norman Blake

Norman Blake‘s list of Creation Records favorites includes My Bloody Valentine, Super Furry Animals, The Pastels, The Jesus and Mary Chain and more.

Dave Kusworth led Jacobites with Nikki Sudden, and also played in The Hawks, TV Eye, The Bounty Hunters, and more. Read tributes from members of Teenage Fanclub, The Auteurs, and more.

You can also read tributes to Little Richard from Ringo Starr, Chuck D, Yoko Ono, Chance the Rapper, Krist Novoselic, Gene Simmons, The Kinks' Dave Davies, Billy Bragg, Margo Price, Lloyd Cole, Frank Turner, and more.

This week in the Basement: reviews of new albums by Munya, Norway's I Was a King, and Xeno & Oaklander, plus Gary Numan's ’I Assassin’ is reissued on vinyl, Scottish post-punk outfit Vital Idles, and Sudakistan cover The Stooges in Spanish.

This week in the basement: the return of Ladytron, a wigged-out new single from Wand; Memphis punk cult legends The Klitz; the jangly slacker style of San Francisco's The Love Birds; and Gwenno asks an important question on her terrific new album.

Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift have a new 7" single due out this fall titled "Love is a Drag" which they recorded with Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake in Kitchener, Ontario...

Scottish musician Bill Wells has played in a number of groups over the years, most notably his own improvisational jazz combo, the Bill Wells Octet, and The National Jazz Trio Of Scotland...

You may remember that Half Japanese's Jad Fair made four collaborative albums as part of his Artist in Residence series for Joyful Noise. The album he made with Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake, titled Yes, will be out May 12...

Joe Pernice and Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake both call Toronto home these days and, what with their similar musical styles, have joined forces under the name The New Mendicants...

Yo La Tengo with Norman Blake (photo by Liz Clayton, via)We opened night eight with "Ohm" (recorded by John McEntire on YLT's forthcoming Fade record)...