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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.
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Looking Back: Outside Lands, Day 2 & 3 – Arcade Fire, The Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys, OK Go, Beirut, Muse, The Vaccines

Posted on 08/21/201101/09/2020 by Max Hammer

Now that we’ve have had more than a week to reflect on it, San Francisco‘s very own  Outside Lands Festival…

Posted in Outside Lands Festival
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Best New Releases – Fool’s Gold, Cut Off Your Hands, Botany, Her Space Holiday, Gold Leaves, Mister Heavenly, Jim Jones Revue

Posted on 08/19/201110/16/2021 by Max Hammer

As summer begins to wind down to a close (already?!), the number of new releases each week starts to increase…

Posted in 2011 Best New Releases

San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival, Day One – The Shins, Phish, MGMT, Foster The People, Toro Y Moi, Best Coast & More

Posted on 08/13/201112/18/2019 by Max Hammer

Thick, gray fog enveloped everything for miles around, and steady winds together made it feel like it was in the…

Posted in Outside Lands Festival
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San Francisco Bay Area Music Festivals, Vol. One – Outside Lands Kicks Off Today with The Shins, MGMT, CYHSY, Phish, Best Coast

Posted on 08/11/201112/18/2019 by Max Hammer

Starting today, music lovers in the San Francisco Bay Area have three major music festivals to look forward to in…

Posted in Outside Lands Festival
Jason Ajemian & the HighLife

Best New Releases from The Horrors, Pepper Rabbit, Scattered Trees, Teen Daze, Falling Andes, Prophets & Kings, Kites with Lights

Posted on 08/10/201107/22/2021 by Max Hammer

The second week of August is a fairly thin one for the weekly Best New Releases when compared to previous…

Posted in 2011 Best New ReleasesTagged Scattered Trees, Teen Daze, The Horrors
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Hot Heat Summer Songs – Annuals, Woodsman, Vampire Hands, SSLYBY, Women, ARMS, Blizten Trapper, Beck, Whalers

Posted on 08/07/201112/18/2019 by Max Hammer

Much of the nation, most especially the mid-west and the south, have been trapped under a dome of extreme heat…

Posted in Summer 2011 MixtapesTagged andrew bird, annuals, Beck, SSLYBY, The Whigs, Vampire Hands, Whalers, Women, Woodsman
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Best New Releases – Moonface, Love of Everything, Archers of Loaf, Beirut, Arcade Fire, The Ettes, Fruit Bats, Diva, Buffalo Killers

Posted on 08/04/201101/09/2020 by Max Hammer

Firstly, we’d like to apologize for being late with this week’s Best New Releases – work and family issues took…

Posted in 2011 Best New ReleasesTagged arcade fire, Beirut, Jim Ward, Neon Indian, The Ettes

All Shook Down Festival and Upcoming Guide to San Francisco Bay Area Festivals

Posted on 08/04/201112/18/2019 by Max Hammer

by Sterling Forest Over the past few years, the Bay Area of San Francisco has been treated to a sleuth…

Posted in 2011 Best New Releases
gauntlethair

Fresh Tracks from Gauntlet Hair, Lightouts, Air Review, Neon Indian, Rubblebucket, Ganglians, Carousel, House of Wolves, TV Girl

Posted on 08/01/201112/18/2019 by Max Hammer

As the new tunes keep rolling in, we’re doing our best to filter them and publish them to the site…

Posted in Fresh Tracks MixTagged Ganglians, Gauntlet Hair, Neon Indian, TV Girl
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IRC Readers’ Favorite Soundtrack Songs – Band of Horses, Fanfarlo, The Shins, Switchfoot, Bob Dylan, The Pixies, Editors

Posted on 07/31/201101/09/2020 by Max Hammer

A few weeks ago we asked the IRC community to name their favorite song from a movie soundtrack. There were…

Posted in Indie Rock Mixtapes
slowloris

IRC Artist of the Week – Madison’s Wes Doyle, aka, Slow Loris

Posted on 07/29/201112/18/2019 by Max Hammer

The memorable and catchy melodic hooks, lo-fi guitar licks, splendid song compositions, and dreamy, reverb-heavy vocals of Madison, Wisconsin musician…

Posted in Artist of the Week

Best New Releases (July 26th) – The Fair Ohs, The Features, Tidelands, Boy + Kite, Dex Romweber Duo, Pallers, Mr. Lewis and the Funeral Five, Little Horn

Posted on 07/27/201112/18/2019 by Max Hammer

July has been an interesting month for new releases, with many impressive releases from indie and DIY artists and bands…

Posted in 2011 Best New Releases

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