This week in Indie Basement: Wand‘s Cory Hanson releases his sublime second solo album; LA’s Automatic get remixed by OSEES, Bauhaus drummer Kevin Haskins, Peaking Lights and more; Jarvis Cocker gets remixed by dub icon Dennis Bovell; The Catenary Wires… Read More
Last we heard from hip-hop festival Rolling Loud Miami, they had rescheduled to May of 2021. That was back in November, and while a lot of progress has been made since then with the vaccines, it still feels too soon… Read More
Ty Segall & Freedom Band have announced a streaming show as part of the Levitation Sessions series that will be broadcast on May 15 at 8 PM ET. The show was filmed at Occidental College’s Remsen Bird Hillside Theatre in Los Angeles. Tickets… Read More
Swedish singer and guitarist José González is an accomplished songwriter, having given us five albums between his solo career and his band Junip, but he first gained attention from a lot of us via his transformative covers of other people’s… Read More
Veeps, the livestream company founded by Good Charlotte‘s Joel & Benji Madden, are partnering with Live Nation to equip more than 60 venues around the country with livestream tech. Among the venues: The Fillmore in San Francisco and Philadelphia, House of… Read More
Copanhagen-based vocalist and producer Erika de Casier signed to 4AD back in October after releasing her debut solo album, Essentials, in 2019. Now she’s announced her sophomore album and first for the label, Sensational, due out digitally on May 21,… Read More
Tom Hunting, the drummer for legendary thrash band Exodus, is being treated for cancer. He was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma in the stomach back in February, news he shared in a statement from the band on Facebook. It reads:… Read More
Pre-order Fiddlehead’s anticipated new album on blue & white galaxy swirl vinyl in our store. Have Heart/Basement-related post-hardcore band Fiddlehead have shared the second single off their anticipated sophomore album Between The Richness, following “Million Times” (which we named one… Read More
Shine is a new Seattle shoegaze band who, as Stereogum points out, share members with hardcore bands Regional Justice Center and Seattle’s New Gods, and they recently released their debut EP Stare Into The Sun. It sort of toes the… Read More
Thursday‘s sophomore album Full Collapse turns 20 today, and as we said in our 20th anniversary review, it’s not just the band’s breakthrough but one of the most pivotal albums in the emo and post-hardcore explosion of the early 2000s.… Read More