A few months ago we launched a new weekly playlist series called The Sunday 25 Mix, aka, S-25. The idea…
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. XVI – Black Whales, Sidi Toure, Wildlife, Sore Eros, Brass Bed, Math and Physics, and more
By Maxwell Silver Brooklyn Street Team Even though 2010 is over, it’s not long gone. So, we can’t see anything…
Best New Releases from Beady Eye, That Ghost, Papercuts, Davila 666, DeVotchKa, Lykke Li, Raised By Tigers, Middle Brother
This week’s Best New Releases is interesting in that there is no release from an A-list ‘indie’ artist, if you…
5 Bands to Watch in 2011, Vol. II – Alcoholic Faith Mission, The Luyas, Elsinore, California Wives, Dada Trash Collage
Last week, we published our first installment of Bands to Watch in 2011. Instead of including one really long listing,…
Best New Releases from Scattered Trees, Edwyn Collins, Datarock, Puro Instinct, Phineas & Lonely Leaves, Cave Singers
It wasn’t hard to pick the lead single for this week’s Best New Releases feature. It is a great track,…
Fresh Tracks from Radiohead, The Strokes, The Ravonettes, Opus Orange, The Submarines, Okkervil River, Stylofone
On Saturday, the world finally got their hands on the highly anticipated, MP3-only album, The King of Limbs, from rock…
Best Indie Rock Songs of 2010, Vol. IV – Dead Weather, Foals, The Radio Dept., Beach Fossils, Weekend, The National
Enough with 2010 already? If that’s how you feel, then you probably don’t want to listen to 30-plus more of…
Best New Releases from Bright Eyes, Drive-By Truckers, The Dears, East River Pipe, Moving Units, Asobi Seksu, La Sera, The Babies
This week’s Best New Releases include some big time albums, including the newest LP from one of our favorite bands,…
Love Songs We Love – Film School, Gang of Four, Radiohead, New Order, Eels, The Flaming Lips, Portishead, Tupac, The Pixies, Wilco
Click play on this streamer to play the entire playlist uninterrupted. For all of you who follow us regularly, you…
The S-25 Mix, Vol. X – Love Songs from Blake Mills, Beach House, Belle and Sebastian, Tallest Man on Earth, Broken Social Scene
By Maxwell Silver Without love, who would we be? The greatest human aspiration, and our most important asset, is arguably…
Best New Releases – Cut Copy, Akron/Family, J. Mascis, Trail of Dead, Young Galaxy, District Attorneys, Class Actress
Among this week’s best new releases is the new Cut Copy album, Zonoscope. Right around Thanksgiving time of last year,…
Fresh Tracks from Fleet Foxes, Beach Fossils, The Dodos, The Kills, Panda Bear, Real Estate, Times New Viking, Holy Ghost, Cold Cave
New 2011 songs are coming at us from all directions, and we’ve been filtering them out so that we can…