Neil Young recently dropped out of performing at Farm Aid 2021 over concerns with pandemic safety. He’s now penned a new op-ed on his Archives site titled “Concerts and Covid,” pointing the finger at big concert promoters, and saying companies like… Read More
This week in Indie Basement: a lost treasure from 1980 from The Hawks (Stephen Duffy and Dave Kunsworth); Steve Gunn makes his prettiest record yet; Supergrass give their second album, In it for the Money, its first vinyl pressing since… Read More
It’s been a rough week in the rock world with the deaths of Don Everly of The Everly Brothers, Eric Wagner of doom metal legends Trouble, and the one that shook the music world the most: Rolling Stones drummer Charlie… Read More
Halsey has been sneaking heavier rock music into their extremely successful pop music since day one. They regularly cite alternative rock bands like Nirvana, The Cure, and The Cranberries as influences, they’re frequently namedropping (and sometimes sampling) punk and emo… Read More
When Turnstile released their boundary-pushing sophomore album Time & Space, the hardcore punk visionaries not only gained much-deserved crossover success for themselves, they also brought a lot of new attention to hardcore in general. In the time since that LP… Read More
Pre-order the Super Deluxe Edition vinyl box set of ‘Let it Be’ in the BV shop. The Beatles have announced a massive reissue of Let It Be, due October 15 via Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol/UMe. There’s a Super Deluxe version (5CD/1 Blu-ray… Read More
“Can’t love somebody who loves burning bridges…” Alright, Miss Sigrid is not playing around. To be fair, it was made abundantly clear upon the release of euphoric disco-pop smash “Mirror” back in May that the 24-year-old Norwegian singer-songwriter was breaking… Read More
Max Barskih is hitting the waves once more, but this time with an all-English song. The Ukrainian artist has taken his talents to the visuals for the track “Just Fly.” The video has amassed over 4.9 million views on Youtube.… Read More
Brooklyn band Geese formed when the five members were in high school, practicing, writing and recording in their basement home studio that they dubbed “The Nest.” The band blend a variety of indie rock and post punk influences for a… Read More
“Let me set the scene, two lovers ripped right at the seams…” The Kacey Musgraves comeback begins now – and she’s starting out strong. It’s been three years since the 33-year-old singer-songwriter released the Best Album of 2018™, Golden Hour,… Read More