In the late hours of a June 2001 evening, a performance by a young, fresh-faced band was broadcast for a national audience on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show. Late-night talk shows draw in musical artists of all stripes, but at that… Read More
In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, St. Louis rapper Smino has shared a new song, "MLK Dr," as well as a vivid, hallucinogenic animated video for it that's as giddy as the jazzy track itself. “I was riding down MLK… Read More
It's the second week of 2021 and the year hits in force with what I'd say is an exemplary Friday's worth of new releases in Indie Basement. If you like your British accents shouty and thick, there are new albums… Read More
Eyehategod have shared the second single off their highly anticipated first album in seven years, A History of Nomadic Behavior. Following a heaping dose of Southern-fried, white-hot sludge on lead single "High Risk Trigger," Eyehategod more directly explore their hardcore… Read More
The restless musical spirits of siblings Nicki and Patrick Adams have found a pared-down yet bracing place to land on their latest musical collaboration. With Nicki on piano and Patrick on trumpet, this eclectic duo, perhaps best known as being… Read More
In an interview for Rolling Stone India (2020), BTS member SUGA said: “I want to be like the ’90s folk musicians whom I’ve been listening to. I’m not trying to limit myself to a specific genre. I simply want to… Read More
The KLF welcomed 2021 by putting a collection of their '80s and '90s hits, like "3 AM Eternal" and "Justified and Ancient," on streaming services for the first time ever. They're doing a little more looking back with a new… Read More
We were just saying earlier this week how we're anticipating Municipal Waste's upcoming album Electrified Brain, and now we've learned that Municipal Waste (and Iron Reagan) frontman Tony Foresta has joined surviving members of influential punk veterans RKL (Rich Kids… Read More
US/Australia singer/songwriter Indigo Sparke recently announced her debut album Echo, which was produced with Big Thief singer/guitarist Adrianne Lenker and frequent Big Thief producer Andrew Sarlo, and she has now signed to Sacred Bones for the album's release. It now… Read More
Last year, punk legends the Descendents released the very political two-song single Suffrage (which included full-band versions of songs that frontman Milo Aukerman had released solo ukulele versions of a few weeks prior), and now with the House pushing to… Read More