Shayde Sartin

Indie Basement (12/11): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more

This week in the Basement: reviews of new albums from Osees and Guided by Voices, plus former Oh Sees member Brigid Dawson, and reissues from Gene and Heavenly.

Sonny & The Sunsets prep new LP co-produced by The Shins' James Mercer (stream a track)

’Hairdressers From Heaven’ will be the first album on Sonny’s own Rocks in Your Head Records. The band is touring, too.

Sonny Smith releasing new album 'Sees All Knows All' (listen to "The Exterminators")

Sonny Smith, of “and the Sunsets” notoriety, will release See All Knows All this Friday (1/15) via Empty Cellar. (Pre-order.) It started as “bohemian quarter-life crisis told in six parts by a man who never had anything to gamble with but his life” which Sonny also describes as “Sort of a Spalding Gray typa thing if Spalding Gray had a band and wasn’t himself but was me…