Reviews
Illicit Hugs And Playground Thugs (2006)
Largely uninspiring debut album from Byrds-fixated Liverpudlian rockers, the Basement
I Just Caught A Face (2006)
Country-influenced latest single from much hyped new Liverpool band, the Basement
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Interviews
Ruby Suns
Interview
The Ruby Suns were started in a basement studio in Auckland and make indie pop with a big sound and involving strings and brass. Sarah Johnson speaks to frontman Ryan McPhun about the group's fluctuating line-up and 'Sea Lion', its just released second album
Live
Dubiosza Kolektiv
Academy 3, Manchester, 7/11/2018
Denzil Watson has fallen in deep, deep like with Balkan ska-rap-punk-Balkan folk act Dubioza Kolektiv. They deliver a barnstorming set in the basement of Manchester Academy.
Craig Finn
Slaughtered Lamb, London, 15/9/2015
Ben Howarth watches Craig Finn, more used to playing with a booming rock band behind him, perform an intimate solo set in front of an enthralled crowd in the basement room of London’s Slaughtered Lamb pub
Big Feastival
Kingham, Oxfordshire, 31/8/2013...1/9/2013
Nick Dent-Robinson is impressed by the Big Feastival, the annual food and music event staged by Jamie Oliver and Blur bassist Alex James at James's farm in Oxfordshire and which this year saw sets by Basement Jaxx, the Feeling, Rizzle Kicks, Dodgy and KT Tunstall
Japandroids
CAMP Basement, London, 22/5/2012
Vacouver-based garage rock duo Japandroids put on a fast and furious show at the CAMP Basement in London
XBXRX and Elephantoms
End Hits, Ottawa, 21/4/2007
In the basement of Ottawa record store End Hits, Andrew Carver enjoys vigorous shows from both hyperactive Californians XBXRX and equally energetic local act, Elephantoms
Regulations and the Sweet Janes
End Hits, Ottawa, 30/10/2006
In the basement of Ottawa record store End Hits Andrew Carver watches Scandinavian punks the Regulations and local band the Sweet Janes play exuberant sets
Clientele
Uffe's Kallare, Växjö, Sweden, 16/10/2002
The Clientele recently played a four date tour of Sweden. Tommy Gunnarsson catches them on fine form and at their intimate best in a tiny basement club
Albums
Bob Dylan and The Band
The Basement Tapes
In our 'Re : View' section, in which our writers look back at albums on the past, new Pennyblackmusic writer Jeff Thiessen examines Bob Dylan and The Band's sprawling 1975 album, 'The Basement Tapes', and finds, underneath all its seeming looseness, a surprising sense of structure and deliberateness
Features
Photoscapes
Basement Jaxx
Popular UK house music duo Basement Jaxx recently played an arena tour of Britain. Anna Gudaniec photographs them exclusively for Pennyblackmusic at the London Wembley Arena