Now back from Musicfest NW, it’s time to catch up on some bands that we’ve been wanting to tell you…
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.
Portland’s MusicfestNW 2010 Opens with Panda Bear, The Thermals, Ra Ra Riot, A.A. Bondy; Some 200 Artists and Bands in Five Days
Thursday night was the big kick-off for the 10th annual Musicfest NW festival in Portland, Oregon. Indie bands and artists…
Best New Releases from Jukebox The Ghost, Interpol, The Thermals, Electric Sunset, Unicycle Loves You, The Acorn, Winter Gloves
Ah, yes, another Best New Releases of the week post as we chug on towards the autumn; yet another summer…
Summer Indie Songs Playlist – BrotherTiger, Holiday Shores, GROUPLOVE, Here We Go Magic, Weezer, Low, Pavement,
A new summer indie songs playlist. We’ve put together this fifth or sixth summer indie songs playlist featuring a diversity…
Music By The Numbers, Mix 1: Built to Spill, The Antlers, Radiohead, Stars, Flaming Lips, Smashing Pumpkins, Joy Division, The Nails
In the never-ending quest to share theme-based music playlists and mixes, this latest offering features great songs with numbers in…
Recent Releases We Almost Missed, IX: Tiger! Sh*t! Tiger!, Venice Is Sinking, Goodnight Loving, Kingsley Flood, Luna is Honey
“ Whispers” – Tiger! Sh*t! Tiger! from Whispers – July 15th “Tugboat” – Venice is Sinking from Sand & Lines…
Best New Releases from Film School, Brothers Young, The Clientele, TV Buddhas, Dominant Legs, Sonny & The Sunsets
Wow, it’s the end of August, already. That’s straight up crazy. Do any of you feel like you lost a…
2010 Songs You Might Not Have Heard: Clubfeet, Dark Mean, Jason Boesel, Old Lights, BLK JKS and More
This is a new playlist that offers the non-restrictive type of playlist mix in which all of the songs have…
2010 Indie Summer Mix Vol. VII: Navajo Bixby, The Drums, Ariel Pink, Islands, She & Him, Beck, Julian Casablancas, Best Coast
We’ve arrived at the second to last mega-MP3 summer songs playlist/mixtape for 2010 as summer slips away, the days get…
Best New Releases from Ra Ra Riot, Eels, No Age, Abner Trio, Magic Kids, The Torches, Dead Confederate, !!!, Foxymorons + a Chill Mix
As summer winds down, this last week of August brings with it a truck load of great new releases, and…
2010 Releases We Almost Missed, Vol. XI: The Polyamorous Affair, Vehicle Blues, Living Days, Wartime Blues, Woven Bones, Jaill
With the new music coming in from all directions non-stop all year long, we miss great new releases when they…
What’s Hot Right Now, Vol. VI: Chromeo, Royksopp, Arcade Fire, The Vaselines, No Age, Panda Bear, Small Black
The What’s Hot Right Now mixtape series has been a huge hit with IRC’s regular readers and visitors from around…