As summer begins to wind down to a close (already?!), the number of new releases each week starts to increase…
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.
San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival, Day One – The Shins, Phish, MGMT, Foster The People, Toro Y Moi, Best Coast & More
Thick, gray fog enveloped everything for miles around, and steady winds together made it feel like it was in the…
San Francisco Bay Area Music Festivals, Vol. One – Outside Lands Kicks Off Today with The Shins, MGMT, CYHSY, Phish, Best Coast
Starting today, music lovers in the San Francisco Bay Area have three major music festivals to look forward to in…
Best New Releases from The Horrors, Pepper Rabbit, Scattered Trees, Teen Daze, Falling Andes, Prophets & Kings, Kites with Lights
The second week of August is a fairly thin one for the weekly Best New Releases when compared to previous…
Hot Heat Summer Songs – Annuals, Woodsman, Vampire Hands, SSLYBY, Women, ARMS, Blizten Trapper, Beck, Whalers
Much of the nation, most especially the mid-west and the south, have been trapped under a dome of extreme heat…
Best New Releases – Moonface, Love of Everything, Archers of Loaf, Beirut, Arcade Fire, The Ettes, Fruit Bats, Diva, Buffalo Killers
Firstly, we’d like to apologize for being late with this week’s Best New Releases – work and family issues took…
All Shook Down Festival and Upcoming Guide to San Francisco Bay Area Festivals
by Sterling Forest Over the past few years, the Bay Area of San Francisco has been treated to a sleuth…
Fresh Tracks from Gauntlet Hair, Lightouts, Air Review, Neon Indian, Rubblebucket, Ganglians, Carousel, House of Wolves, TV Girl
As the new tunes keep rolling in, we’re doing our best to filter them and publish them to the site…
IRC Readers’ Favorite Soundtrack Songs – Band of Horses, Fanfarlo, The Shins, Switchfoot, Bob Dylan, The Pixies, Editors
A few weeks ago we asked the IRC community to name their favorite song from a movie soundtrack. There were…
IRC Artist of the Week – Madison’s Wes Doyle, aka, Slow Loris
The memorable and catchy melodic hooks, lo-fi guitar licks, splendid song compositions, and dreamy, reverb-heavy vocals of Madison, Wisconsin musician…
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
July has been an interesting month for new releases, with many impressive releases from indie and DIY artists and bands…
Fresh Tracks from Cymbals Eat Guitars, M83, VHS or Beta, Golden Bloom, The Stone Foxes, Chairlift, Loney Dear
By Maxwell Silver The Fresh Tracks mixtape series has really exploded since we fired up the first installment last year….