Tomorrow the BFD LIve 105 mini-music fest gets underway at the Shoreline Ampitheatre in Mt. View, California. This year’s line-up…
Best Indie Rock Songs, Bands, Albums
Artist of the Week: New York City Band The Rotaries
When a band has so many ace songs that it’s a real challenge to pick just a few of them…
Around The World Playlist – The Strokes, The Shins, Akron/Family, Sufjan Stevens, The Clash, Calexico, Beach House
Awesome songs about places around the world from indie and alternative artists and bands.
Sonny & The Sunsets Change Course Again on New LP; Release New Tracks and Tour Dates
We’ve been fans of the San Francisco band Sonny & The Sunsets since hearing their splendid single, “Too Young To…
Best New Music Releases, Week of May 7th – AM & Shawn Lee, She & Him, Deerhunter, Mikal Cronin, Savages, Fitz and The Tantrums
As summer approaches, the number of new releases from a variety of well-known, and some lesser-known, bands and artists, will…
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,…
Best New Music Releases, Week of April 30th – Iggy Pop and The Stooges, Guided By Voices, Akron/Family, Daughter, Wolf People
Leading of this week’s new releases are two blockbuster albums from veterans of rock and roll, two bands that no…
Artist of the Week: Joshua Hanson
The International Songwriting Competition, widely recognized as the world’s premier songwriting event, today announced its 2012 winners. ISC’s Grand Prize…
Artist of The Week – Language of Shapes
Tristram Burden is a South Korean artist and ex-pat from Kent, England, who travelled the world for a number of…
Top 2013 Record Store Day Releases, Vol. I – The White Stripes, The Black Keys, Best Coast, Phoenix, MGMT, Dan Deacon
Since its humble beginning in 2007, Record Store Day has grown into a huge international success for independent record stores…
Album Review: The Besnard Lakes’ LP ‘Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO’
by J. Hubner I’ve only recently began listening to The Besnard Lakes, and I can say without a doubt that…
Artist of the Week – The Away Days
In the past 18 months, the college-formed Istanbul indie dream rock band The Away Days have been on quite a…