On Friday, Fayetteville, Arkansas indie pop band The Airplanes dropped their self-released, self-titled debut album from which we have two singles to share with you. The single "A Summer Daydream Part I" surely has the feel of a hazy, hot summer day, and is sunny and upbeat thanks to the fuzzy, distant vocals, shimmering synths, [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
New Jersey punk rock quintet, Titus Andronicus, led by the energetic bluster of Patrick Stickles, dropped their third album, and perhaps best, album Local Business; this week, the follow-up to to their critically-acclaimed 2010 sophomore album, The Monitor, which debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, and prompted Rolling Stone to name them [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
This week's playlist of the top singles from the best new album releases of the week kicks off with a raucous crack, diving head first into the mosh pit thanks to riveting single like "Up To Infinity" by ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead. Although it mellows out to a simmer at midstream, [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
We're playing catch up with last week's new releases. This, therefore, is effectively Vol. II of the Best New Music Releases for the week of Oct. 16th, with new singles from Earlimart, Young Dreams, Shiny Toy Guns, Peace, Matmos, Rosie Flores, Blackbird Blackbird, The Lytics, Harlan, and a number of DIY releases that from everything [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
It's a bit tricky, at first thought, to criticize a benefit concert for kids. But, actually, there are two completely parts of such an event. For any benefit concert, there is the most important aspect - raising as much money and awareness as possible for a great cause - in this case, that helps children [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
For the past six weeks or so, there have been many weekly Best New Music Releases playlists that made up for a so-so summer of new indie releases. They include recent albums by Grizzly Bear, Band of Horses, The Raveonettes, The xx, Mumford & Sons, Sea Wolf, Ty Segall, A.C. Newman, to name just a [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Considering his prolific and respected work during the past decade, it's kind of surprising that Ben Gibbard, frontman of bands like Death Cab For Cutie and the Postal Service, is just now getting around to releasing his first solo album. For the long-awaited LP, Former Lives, Gibbard repurposes a collection of songs that did not [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
IRC has an exclusive new single from New York indie artist and multi-instrumentalist, Golden Bloom. "Flying Mountain" is the first single off of Golden Bloom's upcoming EP, No Day Like Today, due out January 29th of 2013. Though "Flying Mountain" represents Golden Bloom's signature melodic, pop sound, this is the first record where Shawn Fogel has [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Cloudy, rainy weather in the San Francisco Bay Area earlier last week cleared out just in time on Saturday for Day One of the 5th Annual Treasure Island Music Festival. Under radiant, blue skies, and basking in the warm, golden sunshine, thousands of T.I. festival goers were treated to electrifying performances from artists like Grimes, [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
It's been a busy week for music on IRC. As a supplemental to this past week's Best New Music Releases playlist, this post features spill-over and additional releases for the week of Oct. 9th. Black Marble are a new-to-us band with a dark, goth, Cure-like current running through their music, which is also marked by [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
The Raveonettes' newest single, "She Owns The Streets," was by far the most played and downloaded track on IRC in September, trailed by the second most popular song of the month, "Angels" by The xx. Other top singles of the month, in order, were the swaggering horn-laced romp ,"A Little Revolution," by Firewater; the sassy [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
This week started off with a number of posts, including new singles from DIY and record label artists; DIY Artist of the Week: Bryce Jarden; a new song from Goodbye, Texas and Album of the Week by Freelance Whales. Therefore, we start off with Freelance Whales' new single, "Dig Into Waves," followed by "Time to [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
In 2010, at Austin's famous SXSW festival, Queens band Freelance Whales were one of the big draws, generating a lot of buzz and performing at least six different shows in a four-day period, most of which were packed regardless of the venue. The band have been touring like crazy ever since the release of their [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Formed in 2010, the band Goodnight, Texas, are an unsigned indie roots folk band with an interesting story behind their name. The two main members are Avi Vinocur from San Francisco and Patrick Dyer Wolf from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In a clever move to decide on a band name, the pair decided to locate a [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Toronto DIY folk singer/songwriter Bryce Jardine struck us as a promising solo artist last year after nine years playing in a local band. Thanks to two singles Jardine sent from his debut album, The Kids Are Gone, we were immediately smitten, and wondered why we hadn't heard of him before now. Actually many extremely talented [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Yesterday we released a lengthly new releases playlist post for the week, featuring new music from The Vaccines, Why?, The Mountain Goats, Matt & Kim, Eraas, and many other artists. And there's more - much more, including new music from talented bands you may be hearing for the first time. We've been receiving a wave [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
It took a bit longer this week to put it altogether because we've also been working on the Top DIY Releases of the Week playlist to be posted later today, including fantastic new singles from Moon Duo, The Valery Trails, The Ecstatics, Pontoons, My Empire of Sound, and more. Plus, earlier in the week, we [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Among the album releases this week, the much anticipated sophomore LP by The Vaccines, Come Of Age, is a courageous and triumphant progression from their break-through debut album, released last year, What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? Overall, Come Of Age is more colorful and sentimental than the band's debut. The first half of Come Of Age [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Each week, we post a playlist of MP3 singles from the Best New Music Releases dropped for that week. This week's top releases featured singles from Frightened Rabbit, Mumford & Sons, Dum Dum Girls, Sera Cahoone and many others. Often in the BNMR playlist, we mix singles from popular indie bands, as well as lesser [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
While this is not as big a week for new and anticipated album releases from a gaggle of stellar artists and bands as were the first three weeks of September, there are still plenty of new albums we're excited about, along with the lead singles from those LPs. There are many singles this week that [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
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