This is one of the best week of new releases so far this year. If you’re having a bad day,…
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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.
Best New Music Releases (Week of Feb. 28) – PT Walkley, Memoryhouse, Geographer, Plants and Animals, Soft Swells
Wow, this is yet another great week for new releases. The singles from new albums have been sifted through and…
Best New Releases for Week of Feb. 21, II – Damian Jurado, Terry Malts, Sara Radle, Archers of Loaf, Lampchop & DIY Exclusives
In Part One of this week’s Best New Releases, there are many lead singles off of new albums, bonus tracks…
Best New Releases for Week of Feb. 21, Part One – Fun, Princeton, Wild Nothing, Grimes, Perfume Genius, Dirty Ghosts
This week’s Best New Releases is an interesting mix of anticipated new releases from artists such as Fun, Princeton, Grimes,…
New Radar Band Water Liars (formerly Phantom Limb) Record Daytrotter Session, Release Debut LP and Tour Cross-Country
The new Missouri-Mississippi musical duo, Water Liars, is comprised of St. Louis songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Justin Kinkel-Schuster (also of…
Best New Releases for Week of Feb. 14 – Shearwater, Band of Skulls, Young Magic, Oy Vey, Unicycle Loves You, Tennis
The past week’s best new releases include singles and albums from Shearwater, Oy Vey, Unicycle Loves You, Band of Skulls,…
Best New Releases, Vol. II – Capybara, Lightouts, Dirty Ghosts, Elliott Brood, The Valer Tyrails, Silverhawk, Plimsouls, Wire
On Friday, we posted the first part of a two-part installment highlighting this past week’s Best New Releases. The first…
Best New Releases – Week of Feb. 7th: Dr. Dog, of Montreal, The Duke Spirit, Ben Kweller, Sharon Van Etten, The Twilight Sad
With February already in full swing, the 2012 music release calendar is really starting to shape up thanks to a…
Best New Releases, Jan. 2012 – Cloud Nothings, Porcelain Raft, The Big Pink, First Aid Kit, Nada Surf
There have been so many notable new releases that dropped in the past week that music lovers have plenty of…
Way Back Now: Cardinal’s First Album in 18 Years Since Legendary Debut; Plus, First GBV Classic Lineup Album in 16 Years
The international musical duo Cardinal caught our attention the first time we heard a couple of their orchestra pop and…
Best New Releases, Week of Jan. 17 – Guided By Voices, Howlers, Paul Brill, Frankie Rose, Old Monk, Buried Beds, Ani DiFranco
Now that we’re coming up on the end of the first month of 2012, the number of new releases from…
Best Songs of 2011, Vol. VI – The Vaccines, Black Lips, Vetiver, Bon Iver, Beirut, Blackbird Blackbird, The Postelles, Jeff The Brotherhood
Even though 2011 is officially history, we still have plenty of ‘best of 2011’ music posts in the works to…