Beat Happening - Beat Happening (Black Vinyl) Electronic Music and drummer Shiraz Bhatti —

and drummer Shiraz Bhatti — were all graduates of Chicago’s rich DIY scene who came together around their love of Wire

The album’s final song

his first new music in nearly six years

Alvvays dive back into the deep-end of reckless romance and altered dates

titled Endlessness

Beat Happening - Beat Happening (Black Vinyl) Electronic Music and drummer Shiraz Bhatti —From the band's earliest days, the music of Beat Happening felt out of time. Infused with a primitivism worthy of the earliest rock and roll and a romance suggestive of the first warm evenings of the year, Bret Lunsford, Calvin Johnson, and Heather Lewis' songs evoked a mysterious, lovelorn intimacy. When heard in the basements and strobe lit halls of the nascent DIY movement they helped pioneer alongside Johnsons K Records, the directness of these