As far as the quality of the individual lead singles from this week's Best New Releases, this is a great mix of fantastic tracks - the type of singles that make you want to hear the whole album. In fact, we partly put them in the order we have below to highlight the best singles. [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Today we kick off our Best Songs of 2011 series, albeit a bit early - but there are hundreds and hundreds of songs that we have to post in the coming months, so, no sense in waiting too long. Afterall, with the kids back in school, and summer over, 2011 is hurdling to conclusion. So, [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
It's hard to believe that this is the last week of new releases for the summer of 2011, but time just flies right by. So it's good that there are a number of notable albums for the final hurrah of summer. Not surprisingly, there is plenty of buzz around the newest offering from the 'blog [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
This is one of the best weeks for new album releases in a while - the list of bands with fresh drops reads like a line-up for Coachella. With at least a dozen popular artists like The Drums, The Kooks, Grouplove, Blitzer Trapper, Neon Indian, Girls, Mates of State, St. Vincent, Robbers on High Street, [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
As summer begins to melt away like a brilliant setting sun, the weather will soon turn more brisk, the leaves on the trees will die a flashy, colorful death and the air will become more crisp. The first week of September is a seminal time of the year - millions of kids are back in [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
This week's Fresh Tracks features some sah-weet new advanced singles from upcoming albums due out this month, plus the freshest singles were liking the most right now. There's just so much: so, this mix should keep you going for a while. There are just released new singles, lead tracks from anticipated albums, songs that were [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
This week's Fresh Tracks features some sah-weet new advanced singles from upcoming albums due out this month, plus the freshest singles were liking the most right now. There's just so much: so, this mix should keep you going for a while. There are just released new singles, lead tracks from anticipated albums, songs that were [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
It's a rather thin week for new releases, most likely because it's too late for summer releases, and too early for fall releases. Still, there are definitely releases we recommend, including new albums from Peter Wolf Crier, Gold Beach, Wiretree, Balmorehea, and many others. What can we say about Peter Wolf Crier that hasn't already [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
While this week's Best New Releases singles mix is smaller than most other BNR posts this year, it's chock full of fantastic songs from freshly minted albums that we recommend, especially for the first six or seven bands in this mix. Even though Beirut's new album, The Rip Tide, officially dropped Tuesday, the MP3 release [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Isn't it just crazy how fast one week blends into another, and then another, and before you know it, another month is almost over? And we know it's not just us. It's likely that some of you have missed the Best New Releases for either week one, two and/or week three of August, and as [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Now that we've have had more than a week to reflect on it, San Francisco's very own Outside Lands Festival 2011 was one of the best since the festival's beginning in 2008. The impressive line-up of artists and bands, including major headliners like Muse and Arcade Fire, and the fantastic weather for most of the [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
As summer begins to wind down to a close (already?!), the number of new releases each week starts to increase gradually the closer we get to the Christmas holiday. Oh my God, we're seriously like only about four months away from Christmas - that's just nuts. Anyways, this is a great week for new [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Thick, gray fog enveloped everything for miles around, and steady winds plunged temperatures down to the mid-to-high 402s for Day One of the Outside Lands Music festival. Now in its fourth year, OSL kicked off this past Friday in San Francisco, with an amazingly diverse line-up, and what seemed to have been the largest attendance [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Starting today, music lovers in the San Francisco Bay Area have three major music festivals to look forward to in the next couple of months - Outside Lands; Treasure Island and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festivals. Plus, there are a bunch of other smaller festivals - we call them "one-off fests," such as last Saturday's All [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
The second week of August is a fairly thin one for the weekly Best New Releases when compared to previous weeks so far this summer , but the good news is that because there are fewer releases, it just puts more of a spotlight on the new albums that are included in today's post mix. [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Much of the nation, most especially the mid-west and the south, have been trapped under a dome of extreme heat for the past month or so, while the Northeast has been dipping in and out of excessive temperatures for weeks. Here in the west, we've had a mild summer with below average temperatures for most [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Firstly, we'd like to apologize for being late with this week's Best New Releases - work and family issues took over, plus, we wanted a few days to really listen to all of the tracks and put together an overview of the bands and artists who have the most exciting new albums out this week. [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Over the past few years, the Bay Area of San Francisco has been treated to a sleuth of new music festivals, including among them Outside Lands Music Festival, Treasure Island Music Festival, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival (the oldest of the bunch at 11 years), and many other festivals, including one-off festivals that are too numerous [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
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