A good rock mix featuring standout songs with a ‘new year’ theme is more than fitting as the world says…
Indie Rock Mixtapes
Flashback Tracks Mix – Kill City Cartel, Guardian Alien, Battles, Dan Friel, Grinderman, Jon Lindsay, Versus, The Budos Band
Flashback Tracks is a playlist series aimed at featuring playlist mixes of standout, genre-bending singles from both DIY and signed…
The Edge of Summer: The Season’s Teethiest Tunes – Centro Matic, CYHSY, Gold Bears, Morrissey, Stagnant Pools, Mogwai, Beverly
For indie music lovers, this summer’s flow of new releases successfully fulfilled every vein and niche of sub-genre enjoyment. From…
7 Overseas Bands You’ve Gotta Hear, Vol. VI – Gonçalo, Fake Vulgarys, Brockley Forest, Cat Dog Snake, Welcome The Wildfire
As a member of the alternative Portugese band Long Way To Alaska, Alvarez decided last year he wanted to record a solo album and adopted the moniker, Gonçalo. He sent us two gorgeous singles that were so compelling that we sought out more of his music.
Song of the Day: U2’s “New Year’s Day”
New Year’s songs. This time of year always gets people talking about ‘New Year’s songs,’ and other songs with titles…
7 Bands You’ve Gotta Hear, Vol. III – Gang of Brothers, Sun Club, Kid Cadaver, The Bynars, Union Electric, Crash Island
There’s going to be a rush of 2013 DIY, small label and under-the-radar releases in the coming weeks, and perhaps…
7 Overseas Artists You’ve Gotta Hear, Vol. V – Metaform, Matt Churchill, James Kerr, Flat Ed, Reebosound, Heifervescent, Lillian Todd-Jones
Today’s post containing selected artist and their music is the first edition of the ‘7 Bands You’ve Gotta Hear‘ series…
7 Overseas Bands You’ve Gotta Hear, Vol. IV – My Empire of Sound, Deaf Phonetics, The Wakeup Suzzys, E-MUTE, Opioids, Ka Tet
The fourth volume of 7 Overseas Bands You’ve Gotta Hear features profiles and songs from seven overseas bands that have…
7 Overseas Bands You’ve Gotta Hear, Vol. III – The Naturals, Echoic, Lausch, AppleTree, Bearskin, Captain Dangerous and The Shy Lips
One thing is for sure about the regular readers and listeners of IRC: you want to hear more underground, DIY,…
7 Overseas Bands You’ve Gotta Hear, Vol. II – The Amsterdams, Mouth of Ghosts, Uncanny Valley, Mojo Waves, Thieves
It’s been a while since the last installment of 7 Bands You’ve Gotta Hear, which yielded a significant amount of…
Fresh Tracks from Animal Collective, Cat Power, The Raveonettes, The Helio Sequence, Wanderlust
Not surprisingly, there is a lot of buzz around the expected release of Animal Collective‘s 9th studio album, Centipede Hz,…
Fresh Tracks from Grizzly Bear, Poor Moon, Balmorhea, The Luyas, Sera Cahoone
With the warmest recorded summer for much of the country, and the worst drought in half of a century, soon…