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A new live album from the Fall has been announced. The Fall – Live at St. Helens Technical College, ’81 arrives exclusively on vinyl (with a digital download card included) on February 19 via Castle Face. Below, check out the first single, “Leave the Capitol,” originally released on 1981’s Slates EP. The recording was resurfaced by BBC Radio 6 presenter and former Fall bassist Marc Riley. As he told Rolling Stone, he discovered the bootleg set on Twitter and brought ...

Indie Basement: Top 40 Albums of 2020 Its a given that 2020 has been a year unlike any that most of us have ever experienced. Time seemed to fold in on itself (for me at least), and March to December seemed to go by in an instant but also in slow motion. If felt this way for music, too. Albums I thought were last year were this year and vice versa. Looking through the months, though, it was a bit shocking how many records I really liked were released and how many of these groups I wish I had go...

Head below for this weeks reviews. ALBUM OF THE WEEK #1: Guided by Voices - The Styles We Paid For (Guided by Voices Inc) The unstoppable Bob Pollard lets fly the third GBV record of 2020 -- made in quarantine, rocks the same "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." Thats the old motto of the United States Postal Service, but it works for Guided by Voices, too. Bob Pollard has records to make and release, and ...

Taking It Well Dec 11, 2020 By Caleb Campbell Web Exclusive John Dwyer, frontman of the California psych-garage band Osees, has had a particularly busy year, even by his own standards. This year, Dwyer has put out releases with Bent Arcana and Damaged Bug and is nearing on his third 2020 LP with Osees, Panther Rotate, out today via Castle Face (we premiered the stream of the album yesterday). The band’s latest record is a full remix of September’s dizzying punk storm Protean Threat....

Panther Rotate Is Out December 11 On Castle Face Dec 10, 2020 By Caleb Campbell Osees It’s not like Osees to take a break. After releasing September’s excellent Metamorphosed, another album’s worth of songs from the Face Stabber sessions, John Dwyer’s inventive garage psych band has returned with a full album of remixes entitled Panther Rotate. The band’s newest record reinvents, Protean Threat, one of their most straightforward punk releases to date, as a beguiling hypnotic...

So the record label, castle face, took to facebook to say they were cutting ties to dream machine and gave your standard cowardly the opinions expressed dont reflect us. what an unusual story. [cheers and applause] theyre with us now. so, matt, it seems to me like its all doris fault. are bow typing to -- are you going to keep her in the band? [laughter] >> its all my fault. >> well, we found ourselves in an interesting scenario, to say the least. one thing he noticed when we were looking at the...

[laughter] and see -- [cheers and applause] greg: it is interesting that its always about freedom of expression, and the people that are supposed to be extolling freedom of expression are the ones trying to silence you. hows your record doing? >> its been really good actually, yeah. [laughter] yeah. doing way better than it would have ever done with castle face. [laughter] you know? its, its pretty crazy because all these people say, oh, you know, youre so oppressive to these people who are suff...

So the record label, castle face, took to facebook to say they were cutting ties to dream machine and gave your standard cowardly the opinions expressed dont reflect us. what an unusual story. [cheers and applause] theyre with us now. so, matt, it seems to me like its all doris fault. are bow typing to -- are you going to keep her in the band? [laughter] >> its all my fault. >> well, we found ourselves in an interesting scenario, to say the least. one thing he noticed when we were looking at the...

So the record label, castle face, took to facebook to say they were cutting ties to dream machine and gave your standard cowardly the opinions expressed dont reflect us. what an unusual story. [cheers and applause] theyre with us now. so, matt, it seems to me like its all doris fault. are bow typing to -- are you going to keep her in the band? [laughter] >> its all my fault. >> well, we found ourselves in an interesting scenario, to say the least. one thing he noticed when we were looking at the...

So the record label, castle face, took to facebook to say they were cutting ties to dream machine and gave your standard cowardly the opinions expressed dont reflect us. what an unusual story. [cheers and applause] theyre with us now. so, matt, it seems to me like its all doris fault. are bow typing to -- are you going to keep her in the band? [laughter] >> its all my fault. >> well, we found ourselves in an interesting scenario, to say the least. one thing he noticed when we were looking at the...