Last year, we launched a new playlist series titled 7 Bands You Gotta Hear, Vol. I, which was particularly popular….
Indie Rock Mixtapes
Chill Summer Songs Mix – Belle and Sebastian, We Are Trees, Built to Spill, Matt Pond PA, Kings of Convenience, Slowdive, Houses
As summer begins to melt away like a brilliant setting sun, the weather will soon turn more brisk, the leaves…
Fresh Tracks – Wilco, Megafaun, Chris Letcher, Hospitality, Wavves & Best Coast, Princeton, Royksopp, Warm Ghosts, Nurses
This week’s Fresh Tracks features some sah-weet new advanced singles from upcoming albums due out this month, plus the freshest…
Labor Day 2011 Summer Mix – Turf War, Male Bonding, Crystal Antlers, Pavement, Husker Du, Modest Mouse, Travis, Wild Nothing
For many people, Labor Day weekend is the symbolic end of the summer, even though summer doesn’t officially end until…
Summer Songs Mixtape – Barcelona, Flaming Lips, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Jett, White Wires, The Pass, Art Brut, Film School, The Church
It’s still kind of hard to believe that summer will turn to autumn in the next few weeks. For many…
Hot Heat Summer Songs – Annuals, Woodsman, Vampire Hands, SSLYBY, Women, ARMS, Blizten Trapper, Beck, Whalers
Much of the nation, most especially the mid-west and the south, have been trapped under a dome of extreme heat…
Fresh Tracks from Gauntlet Hair, Lightouts, Air Review, Neon Indian, Rubblebucket, Ganglians, Carousel, House of Wolves, TV Girl
As the new tunes keep rolling in, we’re doing our best to filter them and publish them to the site…
IRC Readers’ Favorite Soundtrack Songs – Band of Horses, Fanfarlo, The Shins, Switchfoot, Bob Dylan, The Pixies, Editors
A few weeks ago we asked the IRC community to name their favorite song from a movie soundtrack. There were…
Fresh Tracks from Cymbals Eat Guitars, M83, VHS or Beta, Golden Bloom, The Stone Foxes, Chairlift, Loney Dear
By Maxwell Silver The Fresh Tracks mixtape series has really exploded since we fired up the first installment last year….
Best Summer Songs, Vol. XI – Wavves, The Vaccines, Best Coast, Mazes, Triptides, Film School, The Kinks, Radiohead
(Originally posted in July 2011) It’s almost hard to believe that it is summer here in northern California and the…
S-25 Mix: Fresh Tracks from The Fair Ohs, Wooden Shjips, Mumford & Sons, Pepper Rabbit, Youth Lagoon, Jim Ward, Nurses
You probably know by now that we do things kind of different here. For example, we rarely ever post just…
Indie Fourth of July Songs Vol. II – Polock, Wavves, Iron & Wine, Air France, Roman Candle, Akron/Family, The Strokes, The Catholic Comb
Yesterday, we published Volume One of 50 Fourth of July Songs, a playlist compilation, that features a wide range of…