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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.
S-25 – Bonnaroo 2011 Playlist Mix with The Black Lips, Widespread Panic, The Strokes, Beirut, Lil Wayne, Deer Tick, The Walkmen
Rap rules Bonnaroo? That was the headline grabber from ABC News’ coverage for Day Tree of the popular music festival…
Best New Releases – Black Lips, Arctic Monkeys, Cults, F*cked Up, Dawes, Hooray For Earth, The Postelles, Givers, Battles, Oneida
It’s another strong week for new indie rock releases with fresh albums from the Black Lips, Arctic Monkeys, Cults, F*cked…
The Strokes, Snoop Dogg, Linkin Park, Cage The Elephant, Foster The People, Bad Religion, Neon Trees Celebrate BFD Fest
Tens of thousands of festival goers packed into the Shoreline Ampitheatre Sunday to mark the annual Bay Area BFD Live…
Sasquatch Day 3 with Modest Mouse, The Flaming Lips, The Drums, Tokyo Police Club, Beach House, Yeasayer, Flogging Molly
Day Three of Sasquatch Festival started with overcast, windy and cool weather, and big, dark clouds that seemed impossibly calm;…
Best New Releases This Week – The Vaccines, Kids on a Crime Spree, Mando Diao, Robert Pollard, Seapony, Miwa Gemini, Son Lux
Between returning from the trek up to Sasquatch in central Washington, and catching up with everything since then, we are…
Wilco & The Decemberists Close Out 10th Annual Sasquatch Festival, Plus Surfer Blood, Best Coast, Guided By Voices, Wavves
Wilco ceremoniously closed the 10th annual Sasquatch Festival Monday evening after four days of one of the best line-ups we’ve…
Best New Releases – Thurston Moore, Foster The People, Art Brut, Friendly Fires, Yourself and the Air, Bird Call, David Bazan, Boris
Big releases this week include Thurston Moore‘s newest LP, rising band Foster The People‘s debut, British punkabilly artist Art Brut‘s…
Best New Releases, Part I – Danger Mouse, Bahamas, Chad VanGaalen, Thee Oh Sees, Glasvegas, 13 & God, Metal Mother
After a blockbuster week of new releases last week (so many that we had a part one and two), this…
Fresh Tracks from Fuc*ed Up, Here We Go Magic, Tape Deck Mountain, Crystal Antlers, Thurston Moore, YACHT, Ming Ming
Fcked Up leads off this installment of Fresh Tracks with two new tracks from their upcoming release, David Comes to…
Music Month in Review: Best New Releases, April’s Top 20 Songs, Coachella Mix, Record Store Day, Sounds of Spring, Time Travel
Best Songs of 2011 April with Coachella Mixtape, Record Store Day, Top Ten Songs, Top 20 Songs, Best New Music Releases, Time Travel mixtape playlists
Best New Releases, Part II – Here We Go Magic, The Shivers, Other Lives, The Wilderness of Manitoba, Sloan, The Sea and Cake, El Obo
This week is one of those weeks in which there are so many good to amazing new releases that we…