The International Songwriting Competition, widely recognized as the world’s premier songwriting event, today announced its 2012 winners. ISC’s Grand Prize…
Author: Max Hammer
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.
Artist of The Week – Language of Shapes
Tristram Burden is a South Korean artist and ex-pat from Kent, England, who travelled the world for a number of…
Top 2013 Record Store Day Releases, Vol. I – The White Stripes, The Black Keys, Best Coast, Phoenix, MGMT, Dan Deacon
Since its humble beginning in 2007, Record Store Day has grown into a huge international success for independent record stores…
Album Review: The Besnard Lakes’ LP ‘Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO’
by J. Hubner I’ve only recently began listening to The Besnard Lakes, and I can say without a doubt that…
Artist of the Week – The Away Days
In the past 18 months, the college-formed Istanbul indie dream rock band The Away Days have been on quite a…
5 DIY Bands to Watch, Vol. V – Copies, Plastic Animals, Carson, Monkeybird, Sictor Valdana and The Check This Outs
During the past few months, IRC has published dozens of posts that highlight promising DIY and small label indie bands…
2013 Coachella Music Festival Kicks Off Today; Coachella Playlist and Live YouTube Webcast from Indio
The 2013 music festival season gets under way in just a few hours with the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and…
Best Songs of March 2013 – Atoms For Peace, Shout Out Louds, Youth Lagoon, Bowie, The Strokes, Wavves, Little Green Cars
March was a fantastic month for new album releases, and for the singles from those albums, which makes this preview…
Best New Music Releases, Week of April 2nd – Generationals, The Black Angels, Mudhoney, Hookworms, Cold War Kids
This past week’s batch of the best new albums, and the lead singles from those albums, added more great music…
Charles Bradley Leads Funk/Soul Revival; Drops Sophomore Album
Funk, soul and R&B, especially in the traditional, more organic blends, are important musical genres in the history of modern…
Album Review: The Black Angels’ New LP ‘Indigo Meadow’
by J. Hubner As soon as those tribal drums start in, and that psycho-esque dissonance pipes up, you pretty much…
Artist of the Week – Austin’s Prolific Musician David Thomas Jones
Austin is a city over-flowing with talented musicians, which makes it difficult for accomplished artists to stand out. Nevertheless, local…