This installment of In Dee Mail features R&B slicksters Tortured Soul, singer and songwriter Darrin Kohavi and former Flux Punch…
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.
SXSW One-Man Band Feature Series: WAVVES
Nathan Williams, aka WAVVES, photo courtesy of SPIN magazine One thing that WAVVES, Deastro and Alaska in Winter have in…
Elkhart’s Indie Math Band InBirdsEye Releases New Single "They Won’t See"
Thrust into the national spotlight in recent weeks as the city with the highest unemployment in the United States, Elkhart,…
Bands to Watch in 2009: The Lonely Forest
The Seattle garage rock-pop band The Lonely Forest is set to release their third album, We Sing The Body Electric!,…
SXSW Performers Gavin Castleton, BELL, Robert Gomez, TJ O’Neil and All The Saints
Today’s batch of new songs features artists who will be performing at this year’s South by Southwest conference in Austin,…
A Loving Husband Sings for a Suffering Wife – The Flying Change
Sam Jacobs is a singer songwriter from New York with some major connections in the music industry. But it’s clear…
New Indie Songs from Coltrane Motion, The Acorn and The City and Horses
The following is a batch of new songs from current and upcoming albums from indie rockers Coltrane Motion, Ottawa folk…
IRC Band to Watch Blind Man’s Colour Signs Record Deal
It was no accident. Back in January, after reading a post on the blog I Guess I’m Floating, we featured…
New Indie Releases of 2009: Papercut’s ‘You Can Have What You Want’
Papercuts’ Jason Roberts Quever (photo courtesy of Gnomonsong) After some time away composing, recording and touring, Bay Area musician Jason…
Winter Time Fix Mix, Vol. II – Belle and Sebastian, Sea Wolf and Yeasayer
People across the northeast and even as far south as North Carolina don’t need anyone to remind them that it…
Cool Indie Record Labels: Barsuk Records
Seattle’s Barsuk Records is the mother label of indie bands like Ra Ra Riot, Death Cab for Cutie, Mates of…
Indie Cover Songs, Vol I: Bodies of Water, The Submarines, The White Stripes, Blind Man’s Colour & More
Who doesn’t like a well-done cover song? There are countless numbers of brilliant cover songs that have been recorded through…