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Indie Basement: Best Songs & Albums of February 2024

Featuring Beth Gibbons, Ducks Ltd, IDLES, J Mascis, Les Savy Fav, Four Tet, Mary Timony, Real Estate, and all the rest of February’s best stuff.

Our Favorite Songs of the Week (playlist)

This week’s playlist includes songs by Beth Gibbons, Chelsea Wolfe, Amen Dunes, Brittany Howard, Kacey Musgraves, Caroline Polachek & Weyes Blood, Iron & Wine, The Decemberists, Les Savy Fav, and more

Portishead's Beth Gibbons details debut solo album, shares "Floating on a Moment"

Beth co-produced ‘Lives Outgrown’ with James Ford, and the album is out May 17.

Portishead's Beth Gibbons announces debut solo album 'Lives Outgrown'

“I wanted to draw away from breakbeats and snares,” Beth says, “focusing on the woody fabric of timbres away from the sugary addiction of high frequencies that satisfy like sugar and salt.”

Portishead's Adrian Utley auctioning off Moog synth for Palestinian medical aid

Utley says this Moog is his “main synth from our Portishead tours for over 10 years and has all the sounds I’ve made and used on those tours.”

Primavera Sound Barcelona 2024: Lana Del Rey, SZA, Pulp, Beth Gibbons, FKA twigs, PJ Harvey, more

The 2024 edition of Primavera Sound happens May 29 – June 2 in Barcelona

Portishead share remastered & expanded 'Roseland NYC Live' for its 25th anniversary

Backed by a 28-piece orchestra, Portishead’s 1998 live album now comes with two songs not on the original album and the full-length version of “Western Eyes.”

Listen to every The Smiths song used in David Fincher's 'The Killer' soundtrack

David Fincher’s new thriller, featuring an almost all-Smiths soundtrack, stars Michael Fassbender is in theaters now and hits Netflix on November 10.

Watch Portishead's Beth Gibbons cover Joy Division and Bowie with Afghanistan’s Miraculous Love Kids

“I was so honoured to guest on the Miraculous Love Kids’ reconstructed cover track  ‘Atmosphere/Heroes,’ and to be a voice next to these brave and beautiful girls of Afghanistan.” –

Mark Stewart of The Pop Group, dead at 62

Read tributes to Mark from Sleaford Mods, Adrian Sherwood, Mute Records’ Daniel Miller, Irvine Welsh, and more.
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