Back in 2008, when we first began to officially provide artists and bands a formal way to submit their music to us for review, we would get a few dozen submissions a month. However, in the past two years, as the traffic to IRC has steadily grown (most especially in the past year), the number [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
This week's picks from the TMS inbox - including a spiffy remix of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's "Maps" by Cosmo Black: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps (Cosmo Black Remix) California Wives - Blood Red Youths Blackbird Blackbird - Little Respect Mutineers - Infidelity Glasser - Mirrorage Weapons of Audio - Kill My Boss The Chapin [...]

... und die nannte sich Haven . Kennt die hier noch jemand? Die Briten schrieben Ende der 90er einige kleine Hymnen, die es auch auf den Indietanzflur schafften - «Say something» z.B. Irgendwann ließ dann der Erfolg nach und Haven löste sich auf. Doch seit einer Weile – seit Anfang 2008, um genau zu sein – gibt es nun die Nachfolgeband namens Mutineers . Die klassischen Brit-Elemente, also hymnische Refrains, leicht leidender Urban Melancholy-Gesang und perlende Gitarrenläufe sind auch hier präsent und heben die Mutineers wohltuend von der Masse der Einheits-Brit-Rocker ab. Derzeit schreiben die Jungs [...]
Manchester bands Autokat , Carlis Star and Whiskycats are playing tonight (Monday 28th April 2008) at the Manchester235 casino as part of the Manic Monday broadcast live on 96.2FM The Revolution To gain entry to the casino you have to bring along Photo ID.....it's £5 entry on the night but if you email Jacquie at The Revolution before or early on Monday you can get on the FREE guestlist. The doors open tonight at 19:30pm, but if you can't make it then you can still listen to [...]

I always enjoy the shows at Muddy Waters down on Haley Street, but yesterday was special. I saw The Lonesome Architects in February and I was blown away. Finally after much delay they came back to Santa Barbara. Due to some pulled wisdom teeth, Thousand Oaks' own Hell-Kite could not make it to the show so several random audience members (including me ) played a song or two to warm things up for the main bands. The Mutineers played first and brought everyone into their enjoyable form of [...]