Sloan

Are Sloan getting political?

plus Whitney, Jessy Lanza, Sylvan Esso, Japanese Breakfast, Courtney Marie Andrews, Weedeater, Beach House, Danny Brown, FKA twigs, Mitski, Run the Jewels, and more livestreams you can watch this week since there are no live concerts to attend.

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums from Whitney, Black Marble, Jim Bob (Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine), plus reissues from The Divine Comedy and more.

Fishbone, Nardwuar, Billie Joe Armstrong, D.O.A.'s Joe Keithley, Fucked Up's Damian Abraham and others also paid their respects to the punk icon.

It's the latest edition of Mikey and His Uke's quarantine punk covers series which also includes Less Than Jake/Fishbone mems doing Operation Ivy, Sloan/Billy Talent mems doing Minor Threat, Pennywise/Sum 41 mems doing Bad Religion, and more...

Chi Pig, the iconic frontman of Canadian punk/melodic hardcore veterans S.N.F.U., has sadly passed away.

For Bandcamp's Juneteenth fundraiser (which benefits the NAACP), there are new exclusive/special releases by Sonic Youth, Tunde Adebimpe, Spirit Adrift, The Front Bottoms, Fantastic Negrito, Deerhoof, Jason Isbell, clipping., and more...

In other news, Edgar Wright's next film, Last Night in Soho, has been pushed to 2021 due to coronavirus pandemic.

The trailer for the album pays homage to John Carpenter's classic sci-fi thriller They Live.

Exclusive/special releases for today's Bandcamp fundraiser include Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, Arab Strap, The Hold Steady, Straylight Run, Sacred Bones' Black Sabbath tribute LP, !!!, The Helio Sequence, Cloud Nothings, Mogwai, and much more....