Pale Lights

Wand, The Mermaid Parade, King Gizzard, Shopping/Priests, Magnetic Fields, Kool and the Gang, Eartheater, Jayhawks, Kurt Vile, are among Saturday’s highlights

This week in the Basement: a live album from Uranium Club, reissues of Scott “Spiral Stairs” Kannberg’s post-Pavement records with Preston School of Industry, new music from Brooklyn bands Pale Lights and Air Waves, and Field Music cohorts SLUG.

Cake Shop closed on New Year’s Day 2017 and now co-owner Andy Bodor is booking a new Williamsburg venue…

Little Dragon, Helado Negro, the BV-presented Jawbreaker documentary screening, Calvin Love, Pyrrhon, and more Thursday show options.

Rancid/Dropkick Murphys, Dave Chappelle/Chris Rock, Basement Bhangra’s 20th Anniversity, Leftover Crack, Phish, and more Sunday show options.

Hum/Touche Amore, Culture Club, Sleigh Bells, The Felice Brothers, Corrinne Bailey Rae, Louis CK, Cheetah Chrome, Lake Ruth, and more NYC show options tonight

Settle into the easygoing ’70s singer-songwriter vibes of the Crystal Stilts/Ladybug Transistor’s new solo LP.

Ladybug Transistor and Crystal Stilts keyboardist Kyle Forester will release his self-titled solo album in May and he’s just released another song off it, “Didn’t Try to Run Away.” Kyle’s got a way with the kind of lightly-strummed guitar pop ofter associated with the early ’70s, and this is another good example of his talent. […]

Philadelphia’s Mercury Girls won the battle over use of their name (Toronto’s Mercury Girls are now called Pavilion). With that settled, look for a 7″ out early next year on venerable indiepop label Slumberland…

Folks who revel in the notion that love-rock means never having to tune your guitar will no doubt grow weak in the knees upon first exposure to the Cannanes…