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Songs About New York City
Top 10 Indie Rock Songs of The Week on IRC
Each week we create a Top Ten list that reflects which songs featured on IRC tens of thousands of people from around the world listened to, and downloaded, the most. And while the top ten list does highlight the most popular songs, it does not in any way represent all of the terrific music that is published on IRC each week. There's all kinds of amazing music in Best New Releases, Artists and Bands, Playlist/Mixtapes, Best of 2009 and 2008, and many other regular series found in the right column of this page.The Top Ten songs weekly lists go back to August and most of the older MP3s are still active, so click away. Remember you can stream all the songs non-stop with the built-in player, or right click to Save As the MP3. Also, clicking on an artist or band name next to any song will take you to the original post for that song, where you can discover even more songs. Enjoy.
April 18 - 24
1. "Heavens On Fire" - Radio Dept.2. "Leave House" - Caribou
3. "I Feel Better (Adam Smith Bootleg)" - Hot Chip
4. "Never Follow Suit" - Radio Dept.
5. "Compliments" - Band of Horses
6. "Gone for Good" - Wesley Wolfe
7. "Bloodbuzz Ohio" - The National
8. "Keep" -
9. "Honey" - Open Hand
10. "Belly of June" - Horse Feathers
April 11 - 17
1. "Compliments" - Band of Horses2. "Rainwater Cassette Exchange" - Deerhunter
3. "Stay Close" - Delorean
4. "Cold Bones" - Golden Triangle
5. "Vanessa's Theater of Peace" - The Library Is On Fire
6. "Ghost and The Witness" - Earl Greyhound
7. "Jackie Wants A Black Eye" - Dr. Drog
8. "Fireworks" - Polock
9. "Black Sheep" - Suckers
10. "Burden of Tomorrow" - The Tallest Man on the Earth
April 4 - 10
1. "Stay Close" - Delorean1. "Sleep Paralysist" - Neon Indian
3. "Stranger" - Dr. Dog
4. "Drunk Girls" - LCD Soundsystem
5. "Compliments" - Band of Horses
6. "Leave House" - Caribou
7. "Latin America" - Holy Fu*k
8. "I Keep Waiting" - Hacienda
9. "Loxtep" - Annuals
10. "Black Sheep" - Suckers
March 28 - April 3
1. "Tighten Up" - The Black Keys2. "Stay Close" - Delorean
3. "Dissembler" - Woodhands
4. "Flash Delirium" - MGMT
5. "In The Sun" - She and Him
6. "Loxtep" - Annuals
7. "I'm In Love with a Girl" - Big Star
8. "Bloodbuzz Ohio" - The National
9. "Arm Over Arm" - Screaming Females
10. "Boy Lilikoi" - Jonsi
March 21 - March 27
1. "Stay Close" - Delorean2. "I'm in Love with A Girl" - Big Star
3. "Excuses" - The Morning Benders
4. "Dissembler" - Woodhands
5. "Tighten Up" - The Black Keys
6. "Oh My Soul" - Big Star
7. "Flash Delirium" - MGMT
8. "In The Sun" - She & Him
9. "King Basement" - Thunderhawk
10. "Bloodbuzz Ohio" - The National
March 14 - 20*
1. "Excuses" - The Morning Benders2. "Dream City" - Free Energy
3. "A More Perfect Union" - Titus Andronicus
4. "Hannah" - Freelance Whales
5. "Don't Haunted This Place" - Rural Alberta Advantage
6. "Fifteen" - Standard Fare
7. "This F*cking Job" - Drive-By Truckers
8. "With Every Heartbeat" - The Rest
9. "Vanity Kills" - Codeine Velvet Club
10. "Skylark" - Casper Bangs
*This week's top songs are based mostly on playlists that were published of songs from bands at South By Southwest festival and conference in Austin.
March 7 - March 13
1. "Excuses" - The Morning Benders2. "Hope Child" - Free Energy
3. "The High Road" - Broken Bells
4. "Song for Dreaming" - Justin Claiborne
5. "Conscience Killer" - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
6. "Swim Until You Can't See Land" - Frightened Rabbit
7. "Avenue of Criminals" - The Canon Logic
8. "A More Perfect Union" - Titus Andronicus
9. "I Will Live on Islands" - Josh Rouse
10. "The Mighty Sparrow" - Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
February 28 - March 6
1. "Good Morning" - Rogue Wave2. "Huffy Ten Speed" - Body Language
3. "Passive Idol" - Twin Tigers
4. "Some Day Maybe" - City Light
5. "It's Come To This" - Barzin
6. "By and By" - Lay Low
7. "Hot Sprawl" - Man/Miracle
8. "You Were Young" - Yes Giantess
9. "Cross Walk Stereo" - The Pass
10. "Pink Graffiti" - Secret Cities
February 21 - 27
1. "Hellhole Ratrace" - Girls2. "Walls" - Shout Out Louds
3. "Apollo & the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh!" -
4. "Life Coach" - Fang Island
5. "This is Real" - Best Coast
6. "My Alarm" - New Faces
7. "Bright New Worlds" - The Exhibition
8. "Hoop+Wire" - Boy Eats Drum Machine
9. "Black Eyes" - Shearwater
10. "Plastic People" - Four Tet
February 14 - 20
1. "Damrell's Fire" - The Dimes2. "What A Drag" - Bear Hands
3. "Real Love" - Beach House
4. "Apollo & The Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh!" - Sunset Rubdown
5. "Grey Is Old" - Furcast
6. "Static Waves" - Andrew Belle
7. "Sunhands" - Local Natives
8. "Measure" - Field Music
9. "Hellhole Ratrace" - Girls
10. "Constellations" - The Hush Now
February 7 - 13
1. "Real Love" - Beach House2. "Gold Mine" - Showstar
3. "Dynomania" - The Vermicious K'nids
4. "Life Stand" - Hot Chip
5. "Waves" - Vinca Minor
6. "Resident of the Lost Club" - Showstar
7. "Ambling Alp" - Yeasayer
8. "Away Oh Way Oh" - The Vermicious K'nids
9. "The Streets and Their Names" - Koria Kitten Riot
10. "Many Are Cold" - Drew Danburry
*Most of the songs from the Valentine mixes, except those that were from recent releases, were excluded because they were not technically 'new' nor necessarily 'indie'
Jan. 31 - February 6
1. "Let's Go Down" - Family of the Year2. "Acts of Man" - Midlake
3. "Rather Be Dead" - Bottle Up & Go
4. "Falling from the Sun" - The Album Leaf
5. "The Sea is a Good Place to Think About the Future" - Los Campesinos
6. "Fishsticks" - The Heligoats
7. "The Darkest Side" - The Middle East
8. "Dynomania" - The Vermicious K'nids
9. "Organic Mechanics" - Everthus The Deadbeats
10. "Caroline & I" - Kentucky Nightmare
Jan. 24 - 30
1. "Norway" - Beach House2. "Misfits Mistakes" - Superchunk
3. "Walk On a Lonely Road" - The Magnetic Fields
4. "I Am Your Head" - Elephantom
5. "Aurora Surrealis" - Elephantom
6. "Something Unreal" - Ex-Norweigan
7. "Intergalactic Spell" - Beastie Boys vs. Alphabeat
8. "Made Up of Tiny Lights" - We All Have Hooks for Hands
9. "Blood" - The Middle East
10. "Love is Like Water" - Pistol for Ringo
Jan. 17 - 23
1. "Written in Reverse" - Spoon2. "My Girls" - Animal Collective
3. "Wouldn't Change A Thing" - Fox Fagan
4. "Rich Doors" - New Villager
5. "End Times" - The Eels
6. "Swim" - Surfer Blood
7. "Actors" - In Flight Safety
8. "Dominos" - The Big Pink
9. "Frozen Beach" - Feral Children
10. "Nuke Duke Em" - Dinowalrus
Jan. 10 - 16
1. "Wouldn't Change A Thing" - Fox Fagan2. "Don't Be Long" - Army of Me
3. "Boy Lilikoi" - Jonsi
4. "Giraffe Kiss" - Sore Eros
5. "Carnival" - Threes and Nines
6. "Wounded" - Jay Reatard
7. "Six Feet Under" - Louis Aguilar
8. "Small Catastrophe" - Tiny Tin Hearts
9. "He She We Me" - Trees and Trash
10. "Monuments" - My Summer as a Salvation Soldier
Jan. 3 - 9
1. "Boy Lilikoi" - Jonsi Birgisson2. "Small Catastrophe" - Tiny Tin Hearts
3. "Stars Still Pretty" - Aeroplane Pageant
4. "Do The Sucker" - The Sun
5. "Six Feet Under" - Louis Aguilar
6. "Happiness" - Jonsi & Alex
7. "The Ride" - Oryan
8. "Helicopter" - Twilight Revival
9. "Flirted With You All My Life" - Vic Chesnutt
10. "Bleed It Out" - Lunaria
Dec. 26 - Jan. 2
1. "Bleed It Out" - Lunaria2. "I Am Blind" - Elephant Stone
3. "Paralysed" - Lunaria
4. "Feel Animal" - Monogold
5. "Distaccati" - Clock Hands Strangle
6. "Dirty Fighters" - The Doups
7. "Josephine" - Dylan in the Movies
8. "You Want To Do It With Me" - Six Simple Songs
9. "Alien" - The Sun
10. "The Large Bouquet" - The French Semester
Note: Due to the holidays, and the huge number of downloads from our Christmas and holiday mixes, no Top Ten lists from Dec. 15 to Dec. 25 are available.
Dec. 7 - Dec. 14*
1. "Feel Animal" - Monogold2. "The Large Bouquet" - The French Semester
3. "Dead Sea Minerals" - Monogold
4. "This Year" - Hurricane Bells
5. "Song For A Son" - The Smashing Pumpkins
6. "Little Bird Courage" - Old Canes
7. "Something More" - Slideshow Freak
8. "Cali" - Hosta
9. "What's It In For?" - Avi Buffalo
10. "Phoneme" - STS9
Does not include Christmas songs which have been very popular during the past few weeks.
Nov. 30 - Dec 6
1. "Madeline" - The Delfields2. "Back in Town" - Wiretree
3. "Falling" - Wiretree
4. "Marching to War" - Morningbell
5. "You Know" - Sean Walsh & The National Reserve
6. "Echoes of Time" - The Smiles and Frowns
7. "Flaming Arrow" - Jupiter One
8. "This Year" - Hurricane Bells
9. "The Gang's All Gone" - The Parkas
10. "Shelter" - The Swimmers
Nov. 23-29
1."Suicide Blues" - Brimstone Howl2."Pocketful of Debt" - Sunset
3."This Year" - Hurricane Bells
4."Why Remember Me" - Andy Mitchell
5."So Long Sundays" - The Sun
6."Unpredictable" - Tahiti 80
7."Green Truck" - Sunset
8."Passagrille" - Chromatic Flights
9."I Am A Rock (Simon & Garfunkel)" - Chromatic Flights
10."Little Bird Courage" - Old Canes
Nov. 16-22
1. "Beach Comber" - Real Estate2. "Fright Lined Dining Room" - Arctic Monkeys
3. "Genesis 3:23" - The Mountain Goats
4. "Fake Blues" - Real Estate
5. "Hannah" - Freelance Whales
6. "Swim (To The End)" - Surfer Blood
7. "New Fang" - Them Crooked Vultures
8. "Serve Them Well" - Swimming in Speakers
9. "Tunnelvision" - Here We Go Magic
10. "Terminally Chill" - Neon Indian
Note: This feature was temporarily put on the back burner in September 2009, but due to popular demand, has been restarted.
Aug. 25 - Sept. 1
"I Am The Universe" - Mellow Down Easy"Chain" - Vic Chestnut
"Technology" - Mayday!
"Stranger" - Hopewell
"Tiny Little Robots" - Cage The Elephant
"Devils Loose" - A.A. Bondy
"Charge" - Low Water
"Vancouver" - The Hush Now
"Getting Higher" - Evan Voytas
Top 10 Indie Songs - August 18-24
"Oslo Novelist" - Grand Archives
"Free Energy" - Free Energy
"Wind Phoenix" - Cymbals Eat Guitars
"My Twisted Words" - Radiohead
"My Unusual Friend" - Fruit Bats
"Sacred Trickster" - Sonic Youth
"Naive Brother" - Plus 49
"Voodoo Taxi" - Low Water
"Never Seen" - Lightning Dust
Top 10 Indie Songs - August 11-18
"These Are My Twisted Words" - Radiohead
"Apples" - The Soft Hills
"Crying Lightning" - Arctic Monkeys
"Suicide" - The Raveonettes
"Nothing But Time" - Opus Orange
"Psychic City" - Yacht
"Got Nuffin" - Spoon
"Here To Fall" - Yo La Tengo
"Fables" - The Dodos
Top 10 Indie Songs - August 4-11
"Moon And Moon" - Bat For Lashes
"Don't Look Back"- Black Them Boots
"Drowning Men"- Fanfarlo
"Falleg Depurd"- Blindfold
"Tiny Little Robots" - Cage The Elephant
"Gold And Warm" - Bad Veins
"No You Girls" - Franz Ferdinand
"It's Alright" - Opus Orange
