The long-awaited major movie adaptation of Maurice Sendak‘s timeless classic Where The Wild Things Are premiered in theaters nationwide this…
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.
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol. V: Bright Eyes, Mojave 3, Wilco, MLWTTK, Nick Cave, Hexes and Ohs and More
Even though the beloved Bright Eyes may be a thing of the past, Conor Oberst continues to broaden his horizons…
Treasure Island Music Festival This Weekend: Flaming Lips, MGMT, Decemberists, Beirut, Grizzly Bear and More!
The last touch ups to the stages for this weekend’s Treasure Island Music Festival are being made as thousands of…
Ears To The Music, Vol. VII – Built To Spill, Modest Mouse, Pearl Jam, Clues, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Paramore & More
Indie rock legends Built to Spill are back in a big way with their new LP, There Is No Enemy,…
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol. IV: Evangelicals, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol, Beck, Islands, Ramones, REM, Animal Collective, Misfits
Well, we’re still recovering from a huge storm that belted the Santa Cruz mountains and dumped over eight inches of…
Ears To The Music, VI: The Dead Weather, Nirvana, Hopewell, Langhorne Slim, Bamboo Shoots, Fol Chen & More
The Dead Weather is a new alternative rock super group with a killer line-up: Jack White ( The White Stripes…
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol. III: Deastro, Pavement, Band of Horses, Tegan & Sara, Fratellis, Nirvana & More
Oakland’s electro-pop prodigy Deastro How’s your Halloween playlist coming along? Well, here are 13 more Halloweenish songs for you to…
In Dee Mail: Beautiful Small Machines, Looking Glass, Inkwell, Lemonwilde, Cool Devices & More
There are plenty of indie artists and bands that have released great music in 2009. Some of the best have…
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol. II: Dead Weather, Flaming Lips, Sufjan Stevens, The Kinks, Radiohead, Cut Copy & More
The second installment (out of what will be 13 in all) of indie rock Halloween songs features 13 more tracks,…
Ears To The Music, Vol. V: New Songs from Local Natives, Daniel Johnston, Freelance Whales, Rubik, Annuals & More
Local Natives is a Los Angeles indie rock band that we first heard via the legendary British mag New Music…
In Dee Mail: One Man Band Series with Washed Out, Stuart Newman and Labrador Labratories
Largely due to the availability of affordable technology and the explosion of the Internet in recent years, independent musicians are…
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol I: Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead, The Black Keys, Wild Nothing, Beach House, Beck
Halloween time is upon us. The skeleton crew has been scouring their music collections and other resources to assemble the…