
I know we need the rain. Sucks it had to be during Free Week. Hope this means SxSW will be Chamber of Commerce days. Erm. Jinx. Holy Mountain was the place. Caught Gentlemen Rogues , Broken Gold and Shivery Shakes before having to return some video tapes. Quick set of B&W pics after the break... We are fans of the Shakes. No doubt, best [...]

Date 9/16/11 Location Red 7 Doors 9pm Tickets $12 @ Frontgate You kids leaving early from the festival on Friday night(most of us), should head on down to Red 7 for a sweet show going down featuring Sub Pop rockers Obits . Joining the guys on stage are some great local bands in the form of [...]
The lead up to Coachella (see the Coachella Mix) and Record Store Day (extensive RSD mixes with rare songs), meant that we didn't get to all of the Best New Releases for the week of April 12th. In addition to the regularly scheduled releases that week, there were the hundreds of limited edition vinyl releases [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Baby Jazz : "Billy Ocean" [mp3] search for more Baby Jazz posts at Largehearted Boy The Belle Brigade : "Sweet Louise" [mp3] from The Belle Brigade [...]
We all know the adage: Everything is bigger in Texas. For musicians, that seems to mean that one band isn’t enough for the mass of musical forces milling around inside. Hence, you get bands like The Riverboat Gamblers , whose members just can’t contain their artistic outpourings into one group. Solution? Side projects. First out of the gate was frontman Mike Wiebe’s project with Mark Ryan of Marked Men. Together with Chris Pulliam from The Reds and, more recently, Daniel Fried and Greg Rutherford of the newly-signed The Bad Sports, they formed High Tension Wires (left) in [...]