Today’s playlist of the best new indie rock includes a doubleshot from the super group The Almighty Defenders, consisting of members of the Black Lips and King Khan & BBQ; plus, new songs from Thao with The Get Down Stay Down; Columbus’ Times New Viking; Pittsburgh’s Girls present the awesome song, “Hellhole Ratrace”; Portland’s Blitzen Trapper; Tennessee’s talented David Mead; two popular Brooklyn bands, Obits and Kordan; experimental blues band Castanets; Bloomington, Indiana’s Early Day Miners; Montreal’s pop outfit Young Galaxy; Florida’s indie pop band The Postmarks; New York’s Samara Lubelski, and southern California rockers Devon Williams.
“Cone of Light” – The Almighty Defenders from s/t debut (2009)
Double-shot: “Bow Down and Die” – The Almighty Defenders from s/t debut (2009)
“Know Better, Learn Faster” – Thao with the Get Down, Stay Down, single (2009)
“Move To California” – Times New Viking from Born Again Revisited (2009)
“Hellhole Ratrace” – Girls from Album (2009)
“Black River Killer” – Blitzen Trapper from Black River Killer EP (2009)
“Last Train Home” – David Mead from Almost & Always (2009)
“Two-Headed Coin” – Obits from I Blame You (2009)
Fantasy Nation – Kordan from Fantasy Nation (2009)
So Slowly” – Early Day Miners from Treatment (2009)
“Long Live The Fallen World” – Young Galaxy from Invisible Republic (2009)
“Go Jetsetter” – The Postmarks from Memoirs at the End of the World (2009)
“Evolution Flow” – Samara Lubelski from Future Slip (2009)
“Worn From The Light” – Castanets from Texas Rose, The Thaw and The Beast (2009)
“Sufferer” – Devon Williams from Sufferer (2009)
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