If you haven't already, you might want to check the first volume of IRC's Record Store Day 2011 Music Guide, featuring a lot of great suggestions for limited editions vinyls that you want to get your hands on if at all possible this Saturday. First things first, you might want to check out the official [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
After producing a popular YouTube video last year highlighting top RSD releases, the owner of the Maine based Bull Moose record stores, Chris Brown, has made another nearly 15-minute video review of 20112s Record Store Day releases. Plus, if you're not in the Portland, Maine area, you can also stream online Brown's appearance on local [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
This week marks one of the most significant week's for Best New Releases so far this year. In addition to the regular Tuesday drops that we sift through each week of the year (so you don't have to) to bring our readers what we think are the cream of the crop, there is an added [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
If you’re a fan of music, and especially if you're a collector of rock vinyl, then you have probably heard of Record Store Day. RSD is the one day of the year that music fans get a chance - at a participating RSD record shop - to purchase rare and limited edition vinyl singles, EPs [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
It was pretty much unavoidable, but in a good way. That is, the posting of yet another mega MP3 mix full of 2011 songs that many of you have probably never heard of before. Unlike other mixes, this one has been in the works for many weeks as an on-going project, and has evolved quite [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
While this time of year brings warmer temperatures and more hours of daylight, this week's new releases are thematically more fitting for the dead of winter - with its cold, wickedness, grit and grime, absence of leaves, grass and flowers, and long hours of darkness. For lovers of garage rock, there's much to offer this [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
We have an obsession with creating playlist mixes that feature great songs about a specific subject, theme or other categorization. Over many years, we've amassed hundreds of these playlists, and update them regularly. Sunday is the day we take off from putting out new music in order to bring you all another one of our [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
The music month of March 2011 was dominated by the build-up, and release, of The Strokes' first album in four year, Angels. The band appeared on Saturday Night Live and for South By Southwest, where thousands of concert goers converged at Lady Bird Lake in Austin for a free night show on the Auditorium Shores [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Wow, what a bang-a-lang week for new releases! For reals; it's almost difficult to know where to start. This week's new releases is like a never-ending gravy train of kick-ass music from a spectacular line-up of artists. And just in time as the first signs of spring begin to spread across the northern hemisphere. The [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Wow, what a bang-a-lang week for new releases! For reals; it's almost difficult to know where to start. This week's new releases is like a never-ending gravy train of kick-ass music from a spectacular line-up of artists. And just in time as the first signs of spring begin to spread across the northern hemisphere. The [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
There was a bit of a debate about how much to play up Radiohead's newspaper - The Universal - release, since we've covered the release of The King of Limbs quite extensively. One argument is that there are so many sweet new releases this week that playing up to big the special release of The [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
The S-25 Mix is short for The Sunday 25 Songs Mix, where we put together a mix of 25 tracks (sometimes more) we love from all genres and time periods of music. Over the past two weeks, we put out the Songs About Cars mixes, many of which were recommended by our readers. But this [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Our new tracks in-box has been filling up fast lately. In fact, it's overflowing. So, here's another big mix featuring fresh tracks from a range of artists and bands, including Thom Yorke with Burial and Four Tet, Thurston Moore, Cults, Surfer Blood, A Lull, Zachary Cale, Wild Beasts, Teenage Atari Riot, Man/Miracle, and others. And, [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
By all accounts, Austin's spectacular South By Southwest 2011, was a huge success. Celebrating its 25th Anniversary this year, SXSW is an annual mecca for indie and alternative bands, artists, fans, promoters, publicists, record label executives, press and bloggers from around the world. "Colours" - Grouplove from Grouplove EP Whether or not you were at SXSW [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
This is definitely The Strokes week, and they deserve it. With the release of their first album in four years, the general conscience is a thumbs up. But first, let's look at the dynamics of the past month. In the world of rock music, the past four weeks have been golden. It started of course [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Last week, we revved up the engines and put the pedal to the metal to set out on a road trip to gather up great songs about cars. Thanks to the help from our readers along the way, the S-25 mix Songs About Cars (Vol. I), is perhaps the most extensive and diverse collection of [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Saturday marks the last full day of the barrage of official and unofficial South By Southwest showcases. Yesterday, we presented a gigantic musical guide to the top showcases for evening shows (not even including daytime showcases), plus mini-mixes for our favorite showcases for Wednesday and Thursday. It's hard to believe that SXSW 2011 is winding [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Celebrating its 25th anniversary year, SXSW is an indie and alternative rock lover's paradise, a non-stop marathon of venues and bands, including more top notch artists per square mile during SXSW than probably any other locale in the world, except perhaps NYC during October's CMJ. The SXSW Experience SXSW is where bands are born, [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
With the exception of The Dodo's awesome new album - No Color ($2.99 on Amazon for limited time with bonus track) - there really isn't any big release this week in terms of music that is mainly identified as "indie" - depending on what indie really means to you. Releases that are in the running [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
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