This week in the Basement we’ve got three excellent new albums: Happy Mondays/Black Grape frontman Shaun Ryder is back with his first new solo album in 18 years; Tropical Fuck Storm are as apocalyptic as ever on their third record; and… Read More
Another week, another round of concert uncertainty in the COVID era, with such giants as Neil Young and Nine Inch Nails cancelling shows due to concerns as other shows and festivals go on as planned. It’s impossible to predict the… Read More
After being kept off streaming services for years, Aaliyah‘s catalog is finally in the process of getting added to all major platforms. Her classic 1996 sophomore album One in a Million is on Spotify, Apple Music, and more now. Largely… Read More
TONIGHT IN NYC: Lorde @ Rumsey Playfield (Good Morning America‘s Summer Concert Series) Lorde (meet & greet) @ Rough Trade Laura Jane Grace @ Crossroads Dead and Company @ Citi Field It’s Time for Hip Hop in NYC: Queens w/… Read More
Deafheaven needed to change things up. You could feel it on their last album, a musically ambitious work that was regularly compared to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness yet still scanned as black metal. They were clearly trying to… Read More
Lorde’s not sad anymore. The long-awaited followup to the perfectly-titled Melodrama is called Solar Power, and it’s kind of a double entendre — it’s not talking about the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, it’s talking about the power… Read More
High on Fire, Midnight, Eyehategod, Cephalic Carnage, Exhorder, Blackwater Holylight, Mothership, Foie Gras, Howling Giant, Creeping Death and more are set to appear on a upcoming Motörhead tribute album. Titled Löve Me Förever: A Tribute to Motörhead, it will be… Read More
So many artists, so little time. Each week we review a handful of new albums (of all genres), round up even more new music that we’d call “indie,” and talk about what metal is coming out. We post music news, track premieres, and more all day. We… Read More
Brooks Headley has been operating the very popular vegetarian spot Superiority Burger out of the same tiny E. 9th St space since it opened in 2015. It seated six in non pandemic times — most people took their food to go —… Read More
Earlier today (8/19), Psycho Las Vegas announced that Wino, who was scheduled to do an acoustic set, had dropped off the fest over its mask mandate. Wino had already posted a few messages on social media alluding to his disdain… Read More