the blue nile

Madeline Kenney discusses 10 songs that influenced her new album 'A New Reality Mind'

Madeline’s list includes songs by The Blue Nile, Laurie Anderson, Jenny Hval, Beth Orton, and more.

Collapsing Scenery cover The Blue Nile's "The Downtown Lights" (watch the video)

“’The Downtown Lights’ is a masterpiece, an eccentric, yearning, bizarre, impressionistic wander through a gaslit, haunted cityscape,“ say Collapsing Scenery. “It was a pleasure to learn this song.“

22 New Songs Out Today

Listen to new songs by Bob Nanna (Braid), R.A. the Rugged Man/Ghostface/etc, Black Dresses, Y La Bamba, PINS, Field Day (ex-Dag Nasty), Spotlights (Radiohead cover), and more…

Robert Forster (Go-Betweens) tells us what he's listening to, watching & reading while stuck at home

“You could say I have been living in self-isolation since 1978,” says The Go-Betweens co-founder.

Bill's Indie Basement (10/18): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more

This week in the Basement: reviews of albums by Mark Lanegan, Corridor and PAT (Jacolby Satterwhite & Nick Weiss), plus reissues from The Blue Nile and Maximum Joy.

Bat for Lashes makes a playlist for "dearest lost boys and girls" (listen)

Cyndi Lauper, Drab Majesty, SOPHIE, The Blue Nile, Boy Harsher, The Cure, Jehnny Beth and Johnny Hostile, Roy Orbison, Heart, Prince, Janet Jackson, Com Truise, Bananarama, and more all feature on Bat for Lashes’ new mix.

Ablebody released debut LP (listen), tell us their Top 10 YouTube Finds of 2016

If you’re in Los Angeles, you can catch Ablebody tonight for free.