Poison Ruin’s favorite albums of 2023
Philly deathrockers Poison Ruin released their new album Harvest on Relapse this year, and it’s gotten some year-end love, like from Hotline TNT’s Will Anderson. With the year coming to…
PJ Harvey shares new playlist, “I Wanted to Leave”
PJ Harvey has shared a new playlist on Spotify, “I Wanted to Leave.” “Here is a playlist I made to say farewell to 2023,” she writes. “Thank you so much…
Taking Meds’ Skylar Sarkis tells us about his 10 favorite albums of 2023
Taking Meds released one of our favorite punk albums of 2023 with Dial M For Meds–which vocalist/guitarist Skylar Sarkis also gave us a track-by-track breakdown of–and now Skylar has given…
Saturdays At Your Place tell us about their 10 favorite albums of 2023
Kalamazoo, Michigan emo Saturdays At Your Place released one of our favorite punk albums of 2023 with the Always Cloudy EP (No Sleep), followed by a great split with Summerbruise…
The Marked Men’s Mark Ryan goes synthpunk with O-D-EX (listen to “Ley Line”)
Mark Ryan of The Marked Men and Mind Spiders has a new solo project, O-D-EX, and his debut album Breaker arrives January 26 via Dirtnap Records (pre-order). “The gist is…
10 great emo albums from 2023 you may have missed
As we said in our list of the 50 best albums of 2023, it wasn’t easy to narrow this year’s many, many great albums down to 50, so we thought…
10 Great Ska & Ska-Punk Albums from 2023
Whatever you call this renaissance that ska's been having--fourth wave, New Tone, some secret third thing--there's no doubt that 2023 has been one of its biggest years yet. The genre's…
Top 40 Albums of 2023
It’s always a good year for music, despite what some may say, and 2023 was no different. Even within the tight, somewhat arbitrary confines of Indie Basement, there were no…
Behind the scenes of When We Were Young 2023
When We Were Young is a special time, when we relish an amalgamation of gut-wrenching nostalgia pangs and realize how much of our brain’s storage has been put to work…
Kerosene Heights tell us about their 10 favorite albums of 2023
Asheville, NC emo band Kerosene Heights had a breakout year with the release of their debut album Southeast of Somewhere on No Sleep, which is one of our 50 favorite…
