This week’s Best New Releases includes a bounty of new singles from bands we never heard of before, but are…
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.
Recent Releases We Almost Missed, Vol. XIX – Holiday Shores, Boats, Frisk Viljor, Chris Letcher, Alpine White, BlueJuice, Lightouts
This playlist mix features 50 singles from Recent Releases We Almost Missed. We think you’ll really enjoy this mix, especially…
Best New Releases – Atlas Sound, Said The Whale, Crystal Stilts, Built Like Alaska, Summer Camp, Kurt Vile, Bear & Moose, ARMS
Deerhunter’s prolific musical genius, Bradford Cox, has been one of our favorite ‘indie’ musicians for years. In addition to his…
Best Songs of 2011, Vol. III – Beady Eye, The Strokes, The Dodos, Beach Fossils, Papercuts, Starfu*ker, Thom Yorke + Four Tet
It’s so cool that volumes one and two of the Best Songs of 2011 mixtape series have been such a…
Best New Releases – Rich Aucoin, Jupe Jupe, AM & Shawn Lee, The Beach Boys, Hundred Days, Girl In A Coma, Air Review
Halloween is over (if you missed the Halloween mixes go here) , and the holiday season (is it too early…
Best New Releases – Gauntlet Hair, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, The Trophy Fire, Forest Fire, Brown Shoe, Turf War
Perhaps our favorite album of the week is the debut, self-titled release from Colorado duo, Gauntlet Hair. If you’re a…
Best New Releases from Enation, Future Islands, Casiokids, Peter Gabriel, Color Radio, High Places, John Wesley Harding, Sun Hotel
Another week, another set of new albums. But firstly, this week saw the official release of a new live album…
Best New Releases – The Walls, BacknBloom, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Feist, Zola Jesus, Siskiyou, Bonnie Prince Billy, Big Tree
One of the best new releases of the week comes from a band that sent their music submission directly to…
Best Indie Rock Songs of 2011, Vol. II – Yuck, Radiohead, Panda Bear, Real Estate, Datarock, Fleet Foxes, The Go! Team, Generationals
Last week, we launched the first mixtape of IRC’s Best Songs of 2011 to a relatively strong response from regular…
Best New Releases – Wilco, Dominant Legs, Youth Lagoon, Dum Dum Girls, Dan Mangan, Radiation City, Twin Sister, Warm Ghost
As far as the quality of the individual lead singles from this week’s Best New Releases, this is a great…
Best Songs of 2011, Vol. I – Bright Eyes, Cage The Elephant, The Radio Dept., Cold War Kids, The Decemberists, Delorean
Today we kick off our Best Songs of 2011 series, albeit a bit early – but there are hundreds and…
Best New Releases – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Nurses, Veronica Falls, Weekend, Megafaun, CAVE, Jim Jones Revue, WATERS
It’s hard to believe that this is the last week of new releases for the summer of 2011, but time…