Japanese punks Otoboke Beaver released their newest album Super Champon in May, and are currently on their first North American tour after it was postponed from the spring. They've now announced a new round of dates, happening in 2023 across… Read More
There is a lot going on in the world of former Cramps, Gun Club and Bad Seed member Kid Congo Powers, including two albums and a book. The Wolfmanhattan Project, Kid Congo's supergroup trio with The Gories' Mick Collins and… Read More
Hot Hot Heat have announced a 20th anniversary deluxe edition of their classic breakthrough debut LP Make Up The Breakdown. The album originally came out 20 years ago this week, on October 8, 2002, and the new reissue arrives on… Read More
Memphis rapper GloRilla has announced her debut EP, Anyways, Life's Great…, coming out November 11 via CMG/Interscope (pre-order). The EP has nine songs, including the Cardi B-featuring "Tomorrow 2" and recent single "Blessed." Full tracklist is TBA, but you can… Read More
English songwriter Benjamin Woods, better known as The Golden Dregs, has signed to 4AD for his third album, On Grace & Dignity, out February 10. The album was written, recorded, and produced in his childhood bedroom in Truro, Cornwall, after he lost… Read More
Loretta Lynn passed away at the age of 90 on Tuesday (10/4), and Margo Price paid tribute to the country icon with a rendition of "Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven But Nobody Wants To Die" at her book tour… Read More
Former Bomb the Music Industry! bandmates Jeff Rosenstock and Laura Stevenson released Still Young, an EP of Neil Young covers, back in 2019, and now the duo have announced that they're celebrating the EP with a North American tour. Jeff… Read More
This is the 60th anniversary of the first James Bond movie, Dr. No, and as part of the year-long celebration there's a new documentary, The Sound of 007, that debuted on Amazon Prime today, looking at both Monty Norman and… Read More
Cinderblock — the short-lived early 1990s Buffalo hardcore band co-fronted by Scott Vogel (Terror, Buried Alive, Despair, Slugfest, etc) and Tim Redmond (drummer of Snapcase, Slugfest) that also featured guitarists Karl Dutton and Phil Popieski, bassist Clint Marriott, and future… Read More
Indie Basement is a weekly column on BrooklynVegan focusing on classic indie and alternative artists, "college rock," and new and current acts who follow a similar path. There are reviews of new albums, reissues, box sets, books and sometimes movies and… Read More