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Bill's Indie Basement (7/27): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more
This week: Swervedriver’s best and least heard album gets a much-deserved reissue; plus Anna Calvi, new Slumberland band Peel Dream Magazine; Chilean psych duo The Holydrug Couple; UK indiepop megagroup THe Fortuna Pop All-Stars, and more.
ex Joanna Gruesome members form Ex-Void, touring w/ Waxahatchee in UK
Former Joanna Gruesome members Alanna McArdle and Owen Williams have formed a new band called Ex-Vöid. (Alanna left JG in 2015 and the band carried on, though they’ve been quiet for a year.) So far there’s not a lot of info about them, though they describe themselves as ”Ex-treme Pöwer Pöp” and they’ll tour with Waxahatchee on UK dates in June…
Primavera Sound: 2018 lineup
Primavera Sound has released the lineup for its 2018 edition which happens May 30 – June 2 in Barcelona, Spain. Bjork, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The National, Migos, Arctic Monkeys, Lorde and A$AP Rocky are this year’s headliners…
listen to 'Continental Drift' comp ft. Wildhoney, Mercury Girls, Spook School & Tigercats
Eight new songs from four excellent indiepop bands. Plus: Wildhoney tour dates.
Wildhoney contributing to new split-EP w/ Mercury Girls, Spook School & Tigercats (listen), touring this summer
Indie pop labels Slumberland and Fortuna Pop are teaming up for a four-way split EP featuring bands from the U.S. and the UK…
The Bats played Chaos in Tejas (pics), play NYC Popfest this weekend with Tigercats, Flowers & more
As mentioned, New Zealand indie legends The Bats are on their first North American tour since 2006 which stopped in Austin last night (5/30) to play Chaos in Tejas…
UK trio Flowers released their debut EP, making US debut at NYC Popfest this weekend (dates, streams)
London’s trio Flowers are on their way to the U.S. for NYC Popfest, where they’ll play this Saturday (6/1) at The Bell House as part of a bill that includes New Zealand headliners The Bats as well as fellow UK acts Tigercats, The Hobbes Fanclub, and The Proctors as well as Sweden’s Azure Blue…
The Bats, Close Lobsters, The Wolfhounds, The School, Flowers and more playing 2013 NYC Popfest (line-up, tix on sale)
We already knew that The Monochrome Set would be performing at this year’s NYC Popfest (May 30 – June 2) but now the rest of the line-up has been announced and it’s pretty great with appearances from New Zealand Flying Nun legends The Bats, two bands who featured on NME’s legendary C-86 cassette (Scotland’s Close Lobsters and London’s The Wolfhounds), and long-running California band The Orange Peels; plus newer bands like Wales’ The School, UK group Flowers, Hobbes Fanclub and Tigercats, Sweden’s Alpaca Sport and Azur Blue, Norway’s Making Marks, and Spain’s Zipper; and American groups Ringo Deathstarr, Math & Physics Club, Literature, Ski Lodge and more…
