Indie Rock Cafe - Best New Indie Rock Music, Songs, Bands

5 DIY Bands to Watch – Teemu & The Deathblows, Noir Disco, Palm Poko, Stopwatch Novelty, Coastals
Hot tracks from Brenyama, Brendan Scott Friel, Esakoff, Haydn Rothrock, Mexican Dubwiser, Cloud Tapes
New Indie Rock Songs from doubleVee, Innocent Persona, The Sleeping Tongues, Evan Mix, Jack Kotz, Layla Frankel, Liz and the Lovelies
Fresh Indie Rock Tracks from Mac DeMarco, Kevin McWha Steele, Kinky, Ender & Valentine, Kenny George Band, Samantha Fish, Chase Emery Davis
Fresh Tracks – New Indie Rock Songs from The God Themselves, OFF ORBIT, Abby K, Jeff Beadle, LAST GIANT, Matt Hutson
Best Indie Rock DIY Debuts of 2016, Vol. III – Fire to the Stars, CrashDive, Paper Monsters, The Falling Birds, Cave Wars
Fresh New Indie Rock Tracks from The Singing Limbs, ROLLERS, The Pulltops, Candace Leca & Michael Paglia, Vantana Row, Barricades At Night
From California to Tennessee, New York to Texas, and Germany to Scotland
Great Indie Rock DIY Debuts of 2016, Vol. I – Buttness, Small Culture, Them Coulee Boys, Marvelous Mint, Nervouschain
Best Indie Rock Drops, January 2017 – Cloud Nothings, The xx, Japandroids, Half Japanese, Foxygen, Brian Eno, The Flaming Lips, Ty Segall, The Molochs, Bonobo, The Proper Ornaments


	2016 Best Indie The year's best DIY & indie rock songs, albums and bands..		7 Bands Series Long-running series highlights 7 promising indie rock artists.		In Dee Mail Profiles and music from promising under-the-radar and DIY musicians.		5 Bands That Rock Who doesn't love a blazing rock guitar and thunderous percussion?

IRC's New Spotify Playlists

	Absolute Best Fking Songs Ever An ambitious playlist project to create the best fking songs ever pl! We've been working on this for 15+ years - now we can share on Spotify with you.
	Soundtracks For Films Quentin Will Never Make This huge playlist of gritty, strange, awesome tracks is the unofficial master soundtrack for movies that Quentin Tarantino will never make (he just 'retired').
	Around The World Playlist The ultimate playlist of carefully selected and brilliant songs about world destinations, featuring indie and alt. rock artists from the past three decades.

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Sufjan Stevens

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Best New Indie Rock Releases, April 2015 - Toro Y Moi, Sufjan Stevens, Twin Shadow,

During the past month there have been quite a few awesome album releases from popular and signed indie rock artists and bands, including Toro Y […]

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The Strokes

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Around The World Playlist - The Strokes, The Shins, Akron/Family, Sufjan Stevens,

We are, collectively, playlist fanatics. That includes you and probably your friends and family members. We love to take songs we dig and organize and […]

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Akademic Rock Playlist

Arbeit Macht Frei The Libertines 1:14
Young Adult Friction The Pains of Being Pure at Heart 4:04
Chemicals Collide Cloud Cult 3:17
Broken Calculator Royal Bangs 3:52
Oxford Comma Vampire Weekend 3:16
Did You See The Words Animal Collective 5:15
Eraser No Age 2:41
Pressed in a Book The Shins 2:55
Science vs. Romance Rilo Kiley 5:43
Dictionary The Go Find 4:04
Elemental A.C. Newman 3:29
Language City Wolf Parade 5:02
A Boy And His Genius Lima Research Society. 2:54
Wrapped Up In Books Belle & Sebastian 3:34
The Vowels Pt. 2 Why? 4:04
New Science Guther 3:24
Art Isn't Real (City of Sin) Deer Tick 2:48
Point A to Point B Mason Proper 3:37

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Indie Love Songs We Love

(David Bowie I Love You) Since I Was Six Brian Jonestown Massacre 3:24
Love You Madly Cake 3:58
You've Been Flirting Again Evangelicals 2:26
Don't Fall In Love If You Want To Die In Peace Comet Gain 3:23
Gently Alcoholic Faith Mission 3:34
Daniel Johnston Was Stabbed In The Heart With The Moondagger Deastro 3:33
Lover I Don't Have To Love Bright Eyes 4:00
Lover Of Mine Beach House 5:06
Our Love Was Built To Last (Like Simon Dee) Kitchen Cynics 2:56
Baby's Arms Kurt Vile 3:56
No One's Gonna Love You Band Of Horses 3:37
Seventeen At Three In The Morning Last November 4:33
Heartbeats Jose González 2:40
Feral Love Wakey!Wakey! 3:12
Everyday Vetiver 3:48
Hit the Heartbreaks Black Kids 3:36
Honey Won't You Let Me In The Tallest Man On Earth 2:57
Forgive Me Le Loup 5:03
Heart In Your Heartbreak The Pains of Being Pure At Heart 3:45
Free Love Cage The Elephant 3:29
Heart of Love Army of Me 4:21
Heart Cooks Brain Modest Mouse 4:03
Love Machine Arctic Monkeys 3:38
Love Songs on the Radio Mojave 3 5:48
Sweet Tooth Está Vivo 3:31
Skinny Love Bon Iver 3:59
I Adore You Melpo Mene 4:09
Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken Camera Obscura 3:50
A Teenager In Love the Pains Of Being Pure At Heart 3:11
This Heart Is A Stone Acid House Kings 3:03
Hearts On Fire Cut Copy 4:53
Windowstill Arcade Fire 4:16
Depression Kicks My Teenage Stride 3:23
The Lovecats The Cure 3:40
All My Love American Music Club 5:11
Song For You Alexi Murdoch 4:17
She's A Girl And I'm A Man Lloyd Cole 4:15
Every Word I Know Gustaf Spetz 4:03
Dream About Me Melpo Mene 3:03
How We Fade The Thermals 3:27
Here's Lookin At You, Kid The Gaslight Anthem 3:36
So Sweetly Around Me Jon Jones 5:02
Hey Lover Blake Mills 3:23
Young Love Moto Boy 3:38
I Love You Said The Whale 2:47
Where Did Our Love Go? The Crookes 3:19
Give Love a Try Sunbears! 3:43
Love Like A Sunset Phoenix 7:39
Without Your Love Roger Daltrey 3:17
Love Crime Secret Cities 3:42
It Looks Like Love Josh Rouse 3:46

Songs About New York City

Everyone knows about Sinatra's, Reed's and Joel's NYC songs, but how about amazing Big Apple songs from artists and bands like Cat Power, Conor Oberst, Interpol, or even the Beastie Boys.

Songs About The Moon

It has transfixed humans since the beginning. Our moon. Civilizations have risen and fallen under its spell. Countless fables, tales, poems have written about it.

Songs About Cars

Cars are as American as rock and roll and burritos. You don't even have to be driving to feel the power of this charged and diverse playlist of songs about cars, driving and our need for four wheels.