here’s what This Will Destroy You’s Christopher King is listening to in quarantine
The post-rock vets also have a new career-spanning rarities comp out now and they're releasing their full score for the Vespertine restaurant in June.
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Bill’s Indie Basement (5/1): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more
This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new records from BOAT, Pure X, Happyness, Widhoney offshoot Dummy, a retrospective comp from Long Island cult indie rockers Hypnolovewheel, and more.
Pure X prep first album in six years, share two new songs
Austin's Pure X are back with their first album in six years which will be out in May.
4th of July Weekend – 2017 NYC event guide
In town for for the Fourth and looking for something to do? NYC always has options.
Clinc, Tashaki Miyaki, Allah-Las, Pure X, Vacant Lots, more on Rolling Stones tribute
A bunch of indie-psych bands got together to pay tribute to one of rock's longest-running bands for Stoned - A Psych Tribute To The Rolling Stones, which came out this week via Cleopatra Records (order yours)...
TEEN & Klaus Johann Grobe list their favorite LPs of 2014
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Swiss duo Klauss Johann Grobe released their second album, Im Sinne de Zeit near the start of the year via Trouble in Mind and I'm pretty sure there's only been a handful of days since that I haven't listened to it...
Gorilla vs Bear’s favorite albums & songs of 2014
Gorilla vs Bear posted their lists of their favorite albums (35) and songs (100) of 2014. Though the albums list does have some of the stuff you always see (like The War On Drugs), it's mostly got a lot of unique choices like Recycle Culture, Korallreven, Yumi Zouma, Beverly, Panda Bear's EP and more, and the #1 is pretty unique too...
The FADER list their favorite tracks of 2014
The FADER always has some year-end coverage, but for the past 15 years they didn't publish a ranked year-end list. This year however, they ranked their 116 favorite songs of 2014 (find out why) and it's a diverse list that manages to sing the praises of iLoveMakonnen, Tinashe, Alex G, Florida Georgia Line, Enrique Iglesias, Bleachers, Ricky Eat Acid, YG, Toni Braxton & Babyface, Nothing, Grimes, Parquet Courts, Run the Jewels and Grouper all in the same damn list...
Tennis releasing new album in September, touring with Pure Bathing Culture (dates, new track stream)
Originally due out this spring, Tennis will now release their new album, Ritual in Repeat, on September 9 via Communion Records. The record was produced by Pat Carney of The Black Keys, with additional help from Spoon's Jim Eno and Richard Swift...
Pure X share second single from new LP, playing Baby’s All Right after sold-out NYC shows with Real Estate
Austin's Pure X are currently on the road opening for Real Estate, a tour which wraps up in NYC next week for two sold-out shows. After those shows are done, Pure X are headlining Baby's All Right on Sunday, April 6...