The long-awaited new album, Kveikur, from Sigur Ros dropped this week to wide praise and excitement from fans and critics…
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Discovering and sharing the best DIY/alt/indie/underground music you've never heard. I've been writing about music and other topics since the mid-1990s. We are also music industry professionals - PR; promotion; management; branding; etc.
Album Review: Heliotropes’ Debut LP, ‘A Constant Sea’
by Aaron Rajala Edgy might be a word that some people equate with aging hipsters on the fringe of becoming…
Artist of the Week – Fiction 20 Down
Baltimore band Fiction 20 Down is not any ordinary indie band. Rather they push the envelope, and do so successfully,…
Album Review: Boards of Canada’s ‘Tomorrow’s Harvest’
by J. Hubner From the opening horns of “Gemini” to the fading strands of the album’s closer, “Semena Mertvykh,” there…
Best New Music Releases, Week of June 11th – Surfer Blood, Gold Panda, Sonny & The Sunsets, Boards of Canada, John Vanderslice
All the buzz last week was around the much anticipated and long-awaited follow-up to Surfer Blood‘s wildly popular and successful…
Album Review: Deafheaven’s ‘Sunbather’
by J. Hubner Deafheaven‘s Sunbather is one of those anomalies that happens every so often in metal music where you’re…
Artist of the Week: Pittsburg’s Rob Eldridge, aka, Steelesque
Steelesque is the moniker that Pittsburgh singer/songwriter, producer, engineer and musician, Rob Eldridge, coined for himself when he set out…
Album of the Week: Surfer Blood’s ‘Pythons’
by Devin William Daniels Surfer Blood‘s debut, Astro Coast, was one of the most promising indie rock albums of the…
Best New Music Releases 2013, Week of June 4th – Portugal The Man, Big Deal, Future Bible Heroes, Camera Obscura, QOTSA
There are quite a few fantastic albums out this week from long-time indie and alternative artists as well as new…
Album Review: Camera Obscura’s ‘Desire Lines’
by Devin William Daniels Camera Obscura‘s new album, Desire Lines, is a dreamy and pristine offering, a reverse time capsule…
7 Overseas Bands You’ve Gotta Hear, Vol. IV – My Empire of Sound, Deaf Phonetics, The Wakeup Suzzys, E-MUTE, Opioids, Ka Tet
The fourth volume of 7 Overseas Bands You’ve Gotta Hear features profiles and songs from seven overseas bands that have…
Best New Music Releases, Week of May 28th – Animal Collective, King Tuff, Alex Bleeker and the Freaks, Paperhaus, Baths, Brazos
We’re a bit late with the past week’s best new releases, but of course, it has to kick-off with Shabazz…