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Bandcamp / Buy Osees’ John Dwyer, a musical polymath adept at everything from prog-psych to the anthemic garage rock that soundtracked “Breaking Bad,” reconfigures sounds and lineups faster than a vaudeville star doing a quick-change. But he’s more savant than dabbler, and the albums keep coming, as frequent as they are diverse, a hit parade completed most recently by Witch Egg, an instrumental jazz-garage chimera peopled by Dwyer; drummer Nick Murray, a former Osees member; keyboardist Tom Dolas, a collaborator on last year’s Bent Arcana; saxophonist Brad Cau...

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...

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...