Indie Basement (7/3): the week in classic indie, alternative & college rock
This week: mary in the junkyard, SML, OSEES, Nirosta Steel, The Wolfgang Press, and more
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This week: mary in the junkyard, SML, OSEES, Nirosta Steel, The Wolfgang Press, and more
We’re at the midway point of 2026 and here is our Indie Basement column’s 30 favorite records of the year so far.
This week: Beth Orton, The Hobknobs (mems Lewsberg & The Klittens), Brutalismus 3000, DECIUS, The Woodentops, and more.
This week: Panda Bear & Sonic Boom, Twisted Teens, Luke Haines, Holy Wave, Ebbb, Ultra Vivid Scene, and more
This week: La Sécurité, Slowdive, Horse Lords, CFCF, Jon Spencer, Paycheque, and more.
This week: Pye Corner Audio, Graham Coxon (Blur), Office Dog, Haircut One Hundred, Camper Van Beethoven, and more
This week: Lee “Scratch” Perry & Mouse on Mars, Slippers, Widowspeak, Of Montreal, Les Big Byrd, The Creem (mems Ratatat / Unicorns), Mekons, Pixies, and more
This week’s reviews: Boards of Canada, Iceage, Guided By Voices, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, The Bug Club, and Doublespeak (Vince Clarke, Neil Arthur).
This week: Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien, Visible Cloaks, Marbled Eye, and a look back at one of 2006’s best albums on its 20th anniversary.
Featuring: Boy Harsher, Dinosaur Jr, L’Rain, Interpol, Penelope Isles, The Tubs, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & Mouse on Mars, Slippers, Beth Orton and more of June’s best stuff.
The NYC indie rock festival also has Colleen Green, Sad13, 2nd Grade, Chime School, Asher White, and more. It happens August 22 & 23.
Featuring: Ibibio Sound Machine, Vince Staples, Weezer & Karly Hartzman, Death Cab for Cutie, Rico Nasty, Mastodon, Kelela, Lee “Scratch” Perry & Mouse on Mars, more
Behind the scenes of their WIRED album release show at Milkys in LA.
The Foundation for Independent Music has revealed the full programming lineup for Indie Week 2026, and the 18th annual edition runs June 8-11 at the InterContinental New York Times...
Emo’s unlikeliest success story return rejuvenated right from the rip of new album ‘WIRED.’ On “Time Waster,” Basement channel false starts, burnout, and unfinished potential into...
From Bill Callahan to Boards of Canada to Sluice to Soft Curse to Wendy Eisenberg to Olivia Rodrigo, here are our favorite albums of 2026 so far.
Researching my debut novel, The Maidenheads, which is set in the DC music scene from the late 1990s until 2012, sent me down some curious rabbit holes. I toured backstage at venues...
John Ross, the man behind the New York-based project Wild Pink, is one of the most consistently great, sincerely specific songwriters working in indie rock today. If you're not fam...
Sierra Nevada is pairing craft beer with a stacked indie bill. The brewery has announced its first-ever music and arts festival, The Hazy Hideaway, landing at its Mills River, Nort...
Brantford's zBTFD Records has announced its fall/winter 2026 lineup of free, all-ages in-store performances at 436 Colborne Street. "We are
Sloan are preparing for another edition of their annual murderecords garage sale this Saturday (May 30), and among the new vinyl pressings
Punk rock has always had a complicated relationship with honesty. Strip away the studied nihilism of the genre's second generation and the costumed theatrics of its third, and you...
Plus: Thundercat, Twin Temple / Danzig, Friendship / Charlotte Cornfield, she’s green, Thomas Dollbaum, and more tour and festival news.
Hear new songs by Eartheater, Nick Hakim, Graham Hunt, Marci, The Mountain Goats, Morgan Noise (mem Fat Dog), Mo Troper, GB, and more
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