The New Lines

This week in the Basement: reviews of new albums from Billy Nomates and Ganser, plus New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies gets the box set treatment, a new series of Ennio Morricone compilations, and Edsel unearth a "lost" EP.

Lake Ruth, the trio featuring members of Enon, The New Lines, and The Eighteenth Day of May, draw influence from from baroque psychedelia, '60s film soundtracks, Serge Gainsbourg and motoroik krautrock, for a pristine, groovy, retro-futuristic pop sound.

Brooklyn's austere, baroque The New Lines are back with their third album, Love and Cannibalism, which is out Friday, December 2 via Feral Child. With Hewson Chen's other band, Lake Ruth, mining krautrock and Broadcast-y territory, he takes The new Lines in a more jangly pop direction a la The Byrds, or maybe The Clientele...

Fans of Stereolab, Broadcast and '60s baroque psych will surely dig Lake Ruth's haunting, gorgeous debut LP.

Lake Ruth is a new group formed (The New Lines), Matt Schulz (Holy Fuck, SAVAK, Enon) and singer Allison Brice (The Eighteenth Day Of May)...

Don't forget the L Train is not running between 8th Ave and Bedford Ave this weekend, so plan accordingly. You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights...

Crocodiles have shared the first single from their new album, BOYS, which is due May 12 via Zoo Music (the label frontman Brandon Welchez runs with his wife, Dee Dee of Dum Dum Girls)...

Brooklyn-based indiepop band Pale Lights, which features sometimes Comet Gain member Phil Sutton and Crystal Stilts' Andy Adler, released a new 7" titled "Fourteen Stories Tall" at the tail-end of 2014 which is another fine example of the band's jangly sound (think Lloyd Cole, Felt, Camera Obscura)...

Brooklyn dreampop band Dead Leaf Echo released the true​.​deep​.​sleeper EP earlier this year and the band just made a video for it's swirling highlight "so...

Will any Australians actually be in Australia the month of September? They all seem to be touring North America in their many indie rock bands, many of whom are playing Gonerfest...