The delicious pop harmonies and choruses of Brooklyn’s DIY outfit Monogold are hard to ignore. The band’s sophomore release, We…
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.
Band of The Week: Long Beach Folk Pop Band Avi Buffalo
Eighteen-year-old Long Beach, Calif., guitarist and singer/songwriter Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg, and his band, Avi Buffalo, have created quite a buzz within…
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, XIII: The Finale: Radiohead, Animal Collective, SeaWolf, Sonic Youth, Evangelicals & More
This is the finale for the Halloween Indie Rock Songs playlist mix series (back to regular programming on Monday with…
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol. XII: Bat for Lashes, Tom Waits, Wolf Parade, Maps & Atlases, Elf Power and R. Adams
Ghoul evening ghost, goblins and vampires: here is the second to last mix of indie rock songs with a Halloween…
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol XI: Claude VonStroke, Flaming Lips, Mr. Gnome, Steve Malkmus, Crocodiles & More
Starting off this latest mix of Halloweenish indie songs is one of the most popular songs on Pitchfork right now,…
Last Call for 2008 Vol. II: In Dee Mail Special Arists and Bands Spotlight
In 1981, The Kinks released a hit LP titled Give The People What They Want. One of the best ways…
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol. X: Jay Reatard, Clues, MGMT, Spoon, Headlights, Black Lips, Iron & Wine and More
This mix was originally posted in Oct 2009; a few months before Jay Reatard’s (above) passing (RIP) Kicking off volume…
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol. IX: Them Crooked Vultures, Mae Shi, M83, Magnetic Fields, The Kinks & More
This is an especially timely Halloween playlist in that it starts out with the freshly baked new web ‘hit’ song…
Today’s New Indie Releases: Orba Squara, The Swell Season, The Whigs, I Love You, Glass Ghost, Pugwash, Lullwater & More
There is no shortage of impressive new releases today, so we’re not going to do any lengthy review. Instead, we’ll…
Bridge School Benefit Concert Brings Out Wolfmother, Monsters of Folk, Fleet Foxes, No Doubt, Chris Martin and Others
This year’s 23rd annual The Bridge School Benefit concert fund-raiser held at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mt. View, California, definitely…
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol VIII: Bat For Lashes, CANT, Crocodiles, Beirut, No Age, Sunset Rubdown, Fields & More
Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan Today we are publishing two 13 song Halloweenish indie rock playlists, leaving five more, four…
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol. VII: Atlas Sound, CYHSY, Band of Horses, Au Revoir Simone, My Teenage Stride & More
It’s feeling more like Halloween everyday, and we’re more than half way through the Halloween playlist series. Here’s a new…