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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 it to Castle Face label head John Dwyer (of Osees) to set up an official release. Half of all procee...

Indie Basement: Top 40 Albums of 2020 It's 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 gotten to see live this year.

Head below for this week's 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." That's 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 nothing is going to stop him. Certainly not a global pandemic. The original idea for Guided by Voi...

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. In true Osees fashion, the band is also delivering on their famous live shows with a livestreamed p...

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 set of completely new songs. Stream the full album a day early below. Though Protean Threat was we...