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Third Man, Drag City, Numero Group & more indie labels selling rarities via Discogs Daily Dig initiative

Online music marketplace Discogs has just launched the Discogs Daily Dig, an initiative to support indie record labels during the coronavirus pandemic…

Bill's Indie Basement (11/15): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more

This week: reviews of records by Snapped Ankles, Tindersticks, TOY, Kelley Stoltz, Gramme, plus En Attendant Ana, and more.

Australia's Beef Jerk released their debut LP on Trouble in Mind (listen), touring U.S. in November

Around for a few years now, Sydney Australia’s Beef Jerk make punky, jangly, sneering rock, descended from the Velvet Underground but spiked with a massive hit of early-’80s The Fall…

Australia's Chook Race releasing 'Around the House' on Trouble in Mind (listen), touring U.S. around Gonerfest

Formed at the start of the decade Melbourne, Australia’s Chook Race traffic in the jangly indie rock sounds of classic Flying Nun or The Go-Betweens, not afraid to throw some chirpy “bah-bah-bahs” into their choruses….

Klaus Johann Grobe ready new 7" for Trouble in Mind (listen); new album on the way too

Swiss krauty/tropicalia groovers Klaus Johann Grobe have a new single due out December 4 on Trouble in Mind. Technically, both songs on this 7″ were songs from the same sessions that gave us 2014’s fantastic Im Sinne der Zeit (one of my favorite LPs of that year that I still listen to constantly)…

New Zealand trio Salad Boys releasing jangly 'Metalmania' via Trouble in Mind, touring North America (dates, streams)

If “New Zealand music” conjures something in your mind that is not Lorde (or Split Enz/Crowded House), it’s probably the bands of Flying Nun Records like The Clean, The Verlaines and The Bats whose shamboic, jangly guitar pop has influenced the indie rock since the ’80s…

Jacco Gardner shares unreleased track, here for Northside: Rough Trade tonight, free McCarren show on Friday (dates)

Jacco Gardner, who just released his second album, was one of a few bands featured on a limited edition Trouble in Mind 12″ they released just for the Eindhoven Psych Lab festival that happened in the Netherlands last weekend…

Ultimate Painting streaming debut LP, are here for CMJ, including three shows today (updated dates)

Ultimate Painting, the band from Veronica Falls’ James Hoare and Jack Cooper of Mazes, are here in NYC for CMJ and they’ve got a lot of shows while here…

Estrogen Highs released new LP on Trouble in Mind (stream it), playing CMJ and other dates

New Haven, CT band Estrogen Highs are back with a new album, Hear Me at the Number Station, which just came out via Trouble in Mind. The band are in the proud post-VU noisepop tradition as The Moles, The Pastels, GBV, and Pavement…

The Paperhead releasing new LP (stream a track), playing CMJ including shows w/ Ultimate Painting & more (dates)

by Bill Pearis It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Nashville’s The Paperhead — 2012, when they released their terrific single “The Picture of Her Demise” — but the band have plotted their return…
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