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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.
Best New Releases from The Pass, A Classic Education, The Moaners, The Migrant, Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s
The first few bands included in this week’s Best New Releases include fairly unknown bands; and therein is our point….
5 Bands That Rock! Vol. V: Bang Bang Eche, Awesome Color, Children Collide, and Bottle Up and Go
After reviewing so many submissions, we occasionally find, and share with you, great and promising bands that otherwise don’t get…
Best New Releases, Part II: The Crocodiles, El Guincho, Elf Power, The Lonely Forest, Megafun, The Murdocks and EP Giveaway Contest
On Wednesday, we published the first part of the two-part installment of Best New Releases of the week. We had…
Best New Releases from The Walkmen, The Drums, The Vaselines, Justin Townes Earle, Cloud Cult, Azure Ray, Blonde Redhead & More
What a saah-weeet week for indie rock lovers. In fact, this is bang-a-gong week of new releases from bands you’ve…
Best Rarely Heard Songs from Kinisi, The Spruce Campbells, Little Gold, Household Names, Skeletons With Flesh On Them, Drag City
We’re playing catch up; there’s a bunch of great music that has been piling up that you need to hear….
Indie Spotlight: Air Waves, Dazzle Ships, Dana Falconberry, The Strange Boys and Dinosaur Bones
Now back from Musicfest NW, it’s time to catch up on some bands that we’ve been wanting to tell you…
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…