This past week’s top DIY album releases mix includes new singles, EPs and LPs from artists and bands from Kansas…
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: Early Alan Younger
Not long ago, a regular IRC listener tipped us off to the impressive recordings of Minneapolis experimental folk singer and…
5 DIY Bands to Watch, Vol. I – Hemmingbirds, Jumpiter, Cloud Lantern, The Jesus Rehab and Appalachians
Over the past few months, we have received, and reviewed, hundreds of submissions from mostly DIY artists and bands. In…
Best Songs of 2012, Vol. II – The Lumineers, Jack White, Beach House, Edward Sharpe, Japandroids, Here We Go Magic, Zulu Winter
Recently, Volume One of the Best Songs of 2012, was posted, highlighting the weekly No. 1 songs from January through…
Best New Releases, Week of Jan. 22nd – Ty Segall, Toro Y Moi, Joy Formidable, Nightlands, Growlers, Ra Ra Riot, FIDLAR, DRGN King
What a blockbuster week for new album drops, and the singles from those releases. In fact, this is the first…
Recent Releases We Almost Missed – The Hot Dark, Norwegian Arms, Brave Baby, John Haesemeyer and Eric Howl
Earlier this week, IRC ran the Best New Releases of the week, featuring singles from new albums by artists like…
Best New Releases, Week of Jan. 15th – Yo La Tengo, Virals, Free Energy, Christopher Owens, Pickwick & Sharon Van Etten
The number of new album releases is now starting to pick up. In fact, this week presents a healthy dose…
2013 DIY Releases – We’re Not Heroes, Service Animal, Dead Recipe, Ugly Thrash Demon, Neo Star Nova-Z, Luck & Senses
On Thursday, the first Best New Releases playlist post of 2013 was published, featuring tracks from Pere Ubu, The Wooden…
Best New Music Releases, Week of Jan. 8th – Broadcast, Pere Ubu, Wooden Wand, plus DIY Artists Alex Vans, Colin Davis, Ceremonies
The first new releases of 2013 are slowly starting to trickle in, as they often do at the beginning of…
More Recent Releases from DIY Artists Quixotism, Slow Buildings, Whaki, Har-di-Har, Romulus Rues
Wyatt Baer is the one-man bedroom producer and musician behind the ambient synth pop, drone, dance and R&B textures of…
‘It’s The End of the World’ Doomsday Apocalyptic 12/21/12 Playlist – REM, Radiohead, The Shins, AC/DC, The Strokes, The Hives
In a few hours, at the start of the winter solstice, some people on our troubled planet may be relieved…
Top 10 Songs for November 2012 – Dirty Projectors, Crystal Castles, Sufjan Stevens, Markarians, Guided By Voices, Califone
November, as most Novembers, was not as blockbuster for new releases that October and September turned out to be, but…