Episode 71: Avers

Allison Crutchfield (twin sister of Katie Crutchfield aka Waxahatchee) has paid her dues in bands like P.S. Eliot, Bad Bananna, and Swearin', but on her new LP Tourist In This Town (Merge Records) she...

26 Jan 201740min

The largest peaceful protest in American history took place this weekend, not just here in DC but all over the world. We're gonna talk about it. Yes...this is what we mean by the "and nothing but" par...

23 Jan 20171h 6min

Marcus Dowling (Pitchfork, Bandcamp) and Casey Rae (Sirius XM) join Kevin in the newly upgraded rock-basement to prognosticate about the year before us. We all know about the seismic shift in American...

19 Jan 20171h 14min

Travis Tritt started a tweet-a-cane with his suggestion that artists should stick to their art and leave the politics to...not artists. We've got a few things to say about that.Songwriter Natalie Hemb...

17 Jan 20171h 9min

If you turned on the radio In 1996 your ears were assaulted by the music of artists like Sublime, The Spice Girls, Gin Blossoms, The Prodigy, Alanis Morrisette, and more (the less said about "The Maca...

12 Jan 20171h 6min

In 2012 rapper/producer El-P and rapper Killer Mike met and discovered that not only did they bring out the best in each other's art, all signs pointed towards them being world's first motherf@#@ing r...

9 Jan 201751min

Despite, or maybe because of, everything going on in the world, 2016 has been one of the best years for music in recent memory.Join us in the basement one last time this year as we count down our favo...

15 Des 20161h 57min

Despite, or maybe because of, everything going on in the world, 2016 has been one of the best years for music in recent memory.Join us in the basement one last time this year as we count down our fav...

12 Des 20161h 58min