Wow, it’s the end of August, already. That’s straight up crazy. Do any of you feel like you lost a…
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.
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…
Best New Releases from Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Darker My Love, Jon Lindsay, Chief, Matthew Dear, Like Pioneers
Hot new releases this week include fresh drops from Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Darker My Love, Jon Lindsay,…
San Francisco’s Outside Lands Music Festival This Weekend with The Strokes, Phoenix, Kings of Leon, Freelance Whales, Social Distortion
Tens of thousands of music lovers will converge on the gigantic meadows of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park this weekend…
Best New Releases: Elsinore, The Budos Band, Lost in the Trees, Burnt Ones, Kathryn Calder, Landing on the Moon, Women
With all of the buzz surrounding last week’s release of Arcade Fire‘s their third album, The Suburbs, it has a…
In Dee Mail, Vol. IV: Opus Orange, The Migrant, Joe Gil, Peephole, Ideals, Luge, Sonen, Millstead, Cuckoo Chaos
The music submissions to Indie Rock Cafe from artists and bands around the world are piling up at a rate…
Summer 2010 Mixtape, Vol. V: Wavves, Band of Skulls, The Cars, Cold War Kids, Roxy Music, Glasvegas, The Decemberists, Modest Mouse
The summer mixtapes have received over 100,000 visits since the first 2010 mixtape was published on Memorial Day weekend. The…
Solo Debuts from Band Members of Radiohead, New Pornographers, Pinback, Them Crooked Vultures, Eels, Travis, Cat Power
It might just be that we are more aware of it than previous summers, but it seems like there are…