New York duo Babehoven‘s second album, Water’s Here In You, is out today via Double Double Whammy. You can hear it below, and for more on the album, Maya Bon and Ryan Albert took us track-by-track through its 12 lush, folky songs. Read what they had to say below. Water’s Here In You by Babehoven TRACK-BY-TRACK BREAKDOWN OF BABEHOVEN’S WATER’S HERE IN YOU “Birdseye” “Birdseye” is about the fragility and mystery of life, forgiveness, and reconnection. The bird’s eye view with “one long arrow pointed at you” represents love from afar, a cardinal direction. It is a song about warmth, represented b ..read more

Over 10,000 submissions later, The Smashing Pumpkins have chosen their new guitarist. Kiki Wong, who has played with Taylor Swift, Usher, Bret Michaels, Vigil of War, and more, will join the band’s touring lineup. “It’s been an absolute wild ride, but I am beyond honored and humbled to be chosen to perform alongside some of rock’s greatest and most influential musicians of all time,” she says. “I never thought little ole 15-year-old me playing metal guitar in my bedroom would amount to this moment. It goes to show hard work and perseverance truly pays off if you’re willing to push through the ..read more

Even if you don’t listen to many film scores on their own, it’s worth paying attention when Thom Yorke does it. His score for Daniele Luchetti’s feature film adaptation of Domenico Starnone’s novel Confidenza is his first score since 2018’s Suspiria, and like that one, the music stands tall by itself, even without the film it was written to accompany. It’s got two vocal-led songs that sound like proper Thom Yorke songs (“Knife Edge” and “Four Ways In Time”), along with 10 gorgeous instrumentals, and sometimes it’s the non-vocal songs that are the most gripping. Listen: Confidenza OST by T ..read more

Thursday night (4/25) was the final show of Conor Oberst‘s two city residency, that had him joined by a variety of surprise guests at four shows each at Los Angeles’ Teragram Ballroom in March, and NYC’s Bowery Ballroom in April. Previous guests included Phoebe Bridgers, Lee Ranaldo, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Brian Chase and Nick Zinner, The Strokes Nikolai Fraiture, LCD Soundsystem’s Nancy Whang, and The Faint’s Clark Baechle, among others, and he closed the series out on a high note on Thursday, bringing out So So Glos and playing a bunch of Desaparecidos songs, including “Man and Wife, the Latter (D ..read more

Luca Guadagnino‘s new film Challengers, the most talked-about new film starring Zendaya not to feature giant sandworms, is out in theaters today. The steamy tennis drama — also starring Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor as the rest of the love triangle — gets additional heat from Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, whose techno-fueled score would go over well in clubs as well as the court. The Boys Noize continuous mix, released earlier this month, is great, but so is Reznor & Ross’ original, which seriously thumps and sparingly, cleverly works in some tennis sound effects for added pop. Game, set ..read more

Since the breakup of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, former bassist (and Avoid One Thing vocalist) Joe Gittleman has been focusing on his solo career, and today he announced his debut solo album. It’s called Hold Up, and it comes out June 21 via Bad Time Records (pre-order). Joe produced it himself, and lead single/opening track “Plastered In The Rafters” features trombone by D-Ray of Joe’s recent splitmates Bad Operation. That song is out now, and it scratches a similar itch as classic Bosstones/Avoid One Thing and finds Joe’s voice in great, gravelly form. Check it out below. The album’s also g ..read more

It’s another monster week of new releases, with 10 new records out today that are reviewed, including Pet Shop Boys, The Woodentops, Fat White Family, Corridor, The Zutons, and more. Over in Notable Releases, Andrew reviews another 10 including new ones from St. Vincent, Thom Yorke, Justice, and more. Too many records! In other Basement-friendly news, Blur‘s great third album Parklife turned 30 (!) this week and I looked back. Head below for all of this week’s reviews… ALBUM OF THE WEEK: The Woodentops – Fruits of the Deep (Little People Big Music) First album in 10 years from long-running an ..read more

TONIGHT IN & AROUND NYC Jesse Malin benefit w/ Gogol Bordello, Madball, Murphy’s Law, The Capturers, War Orphan, Crazy & The Brains @ Irving Plaza Oso Oso, Spanish Love Songs, Sydney Sprague, Worry Club @ Warsaw Oneohtrix Point Never @ Brooklyn Paramount Teen Suicide, awakebutstillinbed, Stay Inside, coolant @ Racket Dying Fetus, Full of Hell, 200 Stab Wounds, Kruelty @ Starland Ballroom Sam Evian, Hannah Cohen @ Music Hall of Williamsburg Weedeater, Telekinetic Yeti, Left Land Cruiser @ QXT’s THIN, Intercourse, Crippling Alcoholism, Dead Yellow, Terror Cell @ Knitting Factory at Bake ..read more

Mike Kinsella begins his 11th Owen album by singing about a suitcase that was “big enough to hold all my shit and then some at 21, but now in my 40s, I travel with much more dirty laundry.” It lets you know right off the bat that he’s not singing about his teenage feelings anymore, but if you think his sad bastard music is something to grow out of, just you wait. On The Falls of Sioux, Mike’s unmistakable songwriting style is as highly detailed and emotionally impactful as ever, both comforting in its familiarity and discomforting in its casual devastation. Like the last two Owen albums, it wa ..read more

It’s a busy year for Melkbelly vocalist/guitarist Miranda Winters. Melkbelly recently dropped a new two-song single, and today Miranda releases her debut solo album as Mandy, Lawn Girl, on Exploding In Sound. It’s technically a solo album, but it was recorded with a full band and the album’s ’90s-style indie/grunge vibes don’t fall far from the Melkbelly tree. It’s a blast to listen to and Miranda’s got a voice and perspective that stands out within the sea of ’90s rock revivalists. She sheds more light on the album in a track-by-track breakdown that she’s given to BV, and you can read what sh ..read more