A little over 15 months after music critic Jon Landau declared, “I have seen the future of rock and roll and his name is Bruce Springsteen”, the promise and burden contained in that declaration were manifested in the release of… Read More
“Are you that somebody? Are you?” Agnes doesn’t necessarily come around all that often, but whenever she does, she never gets it wrong. Ever. In fact, the “Release Me” Swedish Idol – literally, she won the second season of Sweden’s… Read More
Rising Nigerian Afro-pop artist Fireboy DML has followed his acclaimed 2019 debut album Laughter, Tears & Goosebumps with his anticipated sophomore album, APOLLO. Guest appearances come from fellow Nigerian artists Olamide and Inglewood, CA rapper D Smoke, and it’s a… Read More
It's a pretty killer week here in Indie Basement. We've got: The bonkers new album from No Joy, Motherhood; Dent May is his usual charming self on Late Checkout; Guided by Voices' drop their 30th album; and Barry Dobbin of… Read More
It's a pretty killer week here in Indie Basement. We've got: The bonkers new album from No Joy, Motherhood; Dent May is his usual charming self on Late Checkout; Guided by Voices' drop their 30th album; and Barry Dobbin of… Read More
Rather than simply releasing the music he had recorded for Derek Jarman’s 1994 film Glitterbug, Brian Eno handed over the score to bassist Jah Wobble, encouraging him to do with it as he pleased, with the results released in 1995… Read More
“It’s too divided, too deep to understand / But if we don’t do it, tell me, who will?” For an Elusive Chanteuse, Mariah Carey sure has made herself incredibly visible in 2020, just making the most of life (it’s like… Read More
Former Tony! Toni! Toné! member Raphael Saadiq has entered a new act of his career, as the onetime R&B star-turned-producer has become an in-demand composer for television as well, having worked on Underground, L.A.'s Finest, Insecure and NatGeo's Genius: Aretha.… Read More
View this post on Instagram A post shared by JISOO? (@sooyaaa__) on Aug 12, 2020 at 5:37am PDT BLACKPINK is preparing to give us their new single (a Cold Popsicle, it seems?) with Selena Gomez in mere days, but Jisoo‘s… Read More
Disintegration, decay, black holes… these are a few words that might spring to mind at the thought of ambient composer William Basinski, who has somehow made music from all of the above in the past few decades. Two words that… Read More