Last year, we launched a new playlist series titled 7 Bands You Gotta Hear, Vol. I, which was particularly popular….
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.
Best New Music Releases, Week of July 3 – Sunglasses, Easter Island, Gold Motel, Johnny Hickman, Teenage Bottlerocket
This past week was the thinnest week of new releases since the first week of January. The holidays usually are…
Recent Releases Almost Missed, Vol. XXI – TRMRS, The D.A., Pale Seas, Starlight Girls, Finn Riggins, Buxton, AJ Nutter
The southern California band, TRMRS, which is an abbreviation of “tremors,” released a split 7-inch vinyl, Good Time Blues, on…
DIY Artist of the Week: Chicago Musician Esta Vivo
It wasn’t a surprise that starting up the DIY Artist of the Week series would generate interests in the artists…
Best New Music Releases, Week of 6/26, Vol. II – The Flaming Lips, A Place to Bury Strangers, Light Asylum, Edmund II, Exray’s
On Thursday, we posted Volume One of this week’s Best New Music Releases, featuring new singles from fresh album drops…
Best New Music Releases, Week of 6/26, Vol. I – The Henry Clay People, Ty Segall Band, Beachwood Sparks, Milk Maid, Everest
Last week, some of the top new indie rock singles from fresh album and EP drops came from bands like…
Top Ten Songs Playlists May, 2012 – Here We Go Magic, Hallelujah the Hills, Beach House, Best Coast, Silversun Pickups
After analyzing the web statistics to determine which songs IRC listeners streamed and downloaded the most during the month of…
Best New Releases, Week of June 19th – Orca Team, Glen Hansard, Hard Drugs, Zulu Winter, White Arrows, Fiona Apple
The top two featured artists this week – Orca Team and Zulu Winter – are new to us, and probably…
Best New Releases, Week of June 12th – Jaill, The Tallest Man on Earth, These United States, Metric, Stepdad, Guided By Voices
This is the last Best New Releases for the spring of 2012, and if you’ve been following along over the…
DIY Artist of the Week: Tele Aviv Musician Ronnie Slogun
With so many DIY artists flooding our inboxes, last week we decided to revive the DIY Artist of the Week…
Best New Releases, Week of June 5th, Vol. II – Ian McGlynn, Knesset, M. Billy, Mynabirds, Alejandro Escovedo, The Temper Trap
In Wednesday’s posting of Volume One of the Best New Releases for the week of June 5-11, top choices went…
Album of the Week: ‘Lex Hives’ by The Hives
Swedish garage rockers The Hives released their first album in nearly five years on Tuesday, and man, it was worth…