After a blockbuster week of new releases last week (so many that we had a part one and two), this…
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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.
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…
Best New Releases – Okkervil River, The Antlers, Wild Beasts, Manchester Orchestra, Man Man, The Cars, Sleepy Viking
The long-awaited Okkervil River new album, I Am Very Far, dropped officially this week, and although we have yet to…
Kevin Spacey Serves Cassettes Won’t Listen With Cease and Desist Order; Upcoming Album Title Drops the “K” and Two Free Tracks
Jason Drake, better known as Cassettes Won’t Listen, is not a stranger to cease and desist orders. In 2008, Drake…
Sounds of Spring, Vol. II – Fleet Foxes, Midlake, Flaming Lips, The Kinks, Annuals, The High Llamas, The Beatles, The Morning Benders
Last week IRC presented the first springtime mix for 2011 (see 2010 and 2009) as part of the weekly Sunday…
Best New Releases – Fleet Foxes, Beastie Boys, Vandervelde, Les Blanks, Jason Forrest, Dave Depper, Freelance Whales
The long-awaited Fleet Foxes‘ follow-up LP to their widely acclaimed 2008 self-titled debut officially drops today, although there have been…
7 Bands You’ve Gotta Hear, Vol. I: The Golden Dogs, Rec Centre, Smoke & Feathers, Boogie Monster, The Wind, El Santo Nada, M&JC
As we disclosed earlier this year, we got behind on the In Dee Music series for one simple reason –…
Sounds of Spring, Vol. I – Kaiser Chiefs, Fredrik, Animal Collective, Jesus & Mary Chain, Modest Mouse, Tuneyards
It’s spring, and time for the Sounds of Spring mixtape for this week’s Sunday 25 Mix. We spent some time…
Best New Releases – Times New Viking, Painted Palms, Of Montreal, Golden Dogs, The Globes, Girls Names, Ezra Koenig
Today’s mix is a really interesting and impressive assortment of fantastic singles from new releases out this week that we’ve…
Okkervil River Will Perform New LP Live Wednesday Night During KUT and NPR Broadcast
For what we think is a web first, Okkervil River are not releasing their new album, I Am Very Far, …