Pianist Bill Evans stands today as one of the two most influential jazz musicians on his instrument after Bud Powell. McCoy Tyner is the other towering figure from the 1960s and 1970s, and it is easy to think of them… Read More
Matt Berninger's distinctive tenor has helped set The National apart for just over two decades. During that time, he's also worked on a couple of side projects: his Booker T. Jones-produced solo debut Serpentine Prison, from this year, and earlier,… Read More
End-of-year list season continues with UK publication NME which has been online-only since 2018. Their Top 50 Albums of 2020 has most of the big records that are on most lists (Fiona Apple, Taylor Swift, Phoebe Bridgers, Run the Jewels,… Read More
The year is finally winding down and this will likely be the last regular edition of Indie Basement for 2020 with year-end lists of various sorts fill out the remaining weeks. But we're going out with a relative bang: both… Read More
When, toward the beginning of 2020, Xyla began crafting the tracks that would become her debut album, she was in what she has described as a “vulnerable” place. After six years in San Francisco, where she had moved from Houston… Read More
15. Love Fame Tragedy – Wherever I Go, I Want To Leave [Good Soldier] Matthew “Murph” Murphy of the Wombats somehow finds time to eat and sleep, which is honestly amazing given that it appears he spends 24 hours a day writing… Read More
Ohio screamo band For Your Health left a big impression with their 2019 split with Shin Guard (Death of Spring) and their Nosebleeds EP, and now they're gearing up to release their first full-length album, In Spite Of, on February… Read More
There are some who confer beatitude – or, at the very least, that quality that the Argentine fabulist Jorge Luis Borges called everness – simply by touch. In Christian iconography, the Lactation of St Bernard is a miracle experienced by… Read More
Pusha T's Kanye West-produced Daytona is one of the best rap albums of the past decade, so it was exciting when he revealed last year that Kanye would be producing his next album too. And now that album just got… Read More
Title Fight remain on hiatus, but Ned Russin continues to be prolific with his Glitterer project, and he has now announced a followup to 2019's Looking Through The Shades, and going by lead single "Are You Sure?", it sounds like… Read More