Among the album releases this week, the much anticipated sophomore LP by The Vaccines, Come Of Age, is a courageous…
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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.
Top DIY Releases of the Week, Sept. 25th – Dizzy Bats, Slunq, Defy The Ocean, High Pines, Arioc, Faithless Town, The Shallows
Each week, we post a playlist of MP3 singles from the Best New Music Releases dropped for that week. This…
Best New Music Releases, Week of Sept. 25th – Frightened Rabbit, Mumford & Sons, Sera Cahoone, Dum Dum Girls
While this is not as big of a week for new and anticipated album releases from a gaggle of stellar…
DIY Artist of the Week – Pittsburgh’s Electro-Dream Pop Artist Paul Thomas Zito
Paul Thomas Zito of Pittsburgh is a particular stand-out DIY musician for us this week in the cafe, and we’re…
More Best New Music Releases & DIY Drops, Vol. II – The Whigs, The Sea and Cake, Sic Alps, Woods, Josephine Foster
Volume One of the Best New Music Releases for the Week of Sept. 18th featured Grizzly Bear, Band of Horses,…
Best New Music Releases, Week of Sept. 18th, Vol. One – Grizzly Bear, Band of Horses, Dinosaur Jr., Allah-Las, Alt. J, Menomena
September is turning out to be a blockbuster month for new album releases, with this week adding to the stacks…
Band Of The Week: Hong Kong Shoegaze, Post-Punk Band, The Yours
By Maxwell Silver You probably won’t hear the latest singles from the band, The Yours, on any other major indie blog…
Top DIY Releases This Week from City Brat, Sam Billen, Patchy and Qualms
If you listened to Volume One and Volume Two of this week’s Best New Music Release singles playlist, you not only heard…
More Best New Releases from Firewater, Field Report, Neal Halstead, Sea Wolf, Avett Brothers, Hello Echo, Solos, Helvetica
This week’s drop of more than two dozen fantastic, and some highly anticipated, albums continues to deliver memorable new singles…
Best New Music Releases, Week of Sept. 11th – The Raveonettes, The xx, David Byrne & St. Vincent, Turbo Fruits, Seapony
Much like last week’s stellar list of new releases, this is yet another blockbuster week for new albums, including highly…
Top Ten Songs Playlists for August 2012 – Divine Fits, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Black Pistol Fire, Blonde Summer, Red Kross
Compared to July, the quality and quantity of new album releases for the month of August 2012 went a long…
Thurston Moore’s New Band, Chelsea Light Moving, Set to Drop New Album Dedicated to Writer William Burroughs
Chelsea Light Moving, a new band founded and fronted by Sonic Youth‘s iconic songwriter, singer and guitarist, Thurston Moore, will release its…