Kicking off its fifth year, the Outside Lands Festival 2012 takes place this weekend in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park….
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 August 7th – Redd Kross, The Orwells, Niki and the Dove, Bear Mountain, Erik Blood, Ape School
Top releases of the week on our list include the newest from Redd Kross, the debut from Niki and the…
Best New Music Releases, Week of July 31st – Blonde Summer, Buttonhead, Junk Culture, Wildlife Control, Allen Stone
July roared in with explosions of colors and a less impressive batch of new album releases, and almost as quickly,…
Best New Music Releases, Week of July 24 – Fang Island, Passion Pit, Gaslight Anthem, Purity Ring, Young Moon, Grassfight
IRC Band to Watch, Rhode Island trio, Fang Island, who are also veterans of the Top Ten Songs (being updated…
Best New Releases, Week of July 17, Vol. II – Conveyor, Cosmo Jarvis, Matisyahu, The History of Panic, Icky Blossoms, John Maus
This is volume two of the lead singles from this past week’s Best New Music Releases. The first volume of…
Best New Music Releases – Jeff The Brotherhood, Shout Outs4, The Very Best, Frank Ocean, The Drowning Men, Mum, The Blank Tapes
The Album of the Week goes to Jeff The Brotherhood‘s Hypnotic Nights, the band’s seventh studio album. This is the…
Best New Music Releases, Week of July 10th – Dirty Projectors, Twin Shadow, Mission of Burma, Videoing, Deleted Scenes
After a thin week for new albums during the July 4th holiday, things got back to normal last week with…
7 Bands You Gotta Hear, Vol. II – Mothlight, Tiger Waves, Cherokee Red, Esther, Calling Morocco, The Casuals, The Dark Lights
Last year, we launched a new playlist series titled 7 Bands You Gotta Hear, Vol. I, which was particularly popular….
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…