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
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
Today's mix is a really interesting and impressive assortment of fantastic singles from new releases out this week that we've put together as part of the weekly Best New Releases mixtape series. There's such a wonderful variety of known, but mainly relatively obscure, bands and artists with new releases this week. We think you might [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
For what we think is a web first, Okkervil River are not releasing their new album, I Am Very Far, today, but instead will perform it live, song for song, on KUT in Austin in collaboration with NPR. You can listen to the live cast at 7 pm EST Wednesday evening. The Foo Fighters recently [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
In a world full of trouble, people like the chance to focus on something positive - so, even though they're all royal and all the baggage that comes with that, there are still a lot of people around the world who are interested, even excited, by the royal wedding next Friday of Prince William and [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
As wild and crazy Kinks' fans since childhood, the latest chatter out this past week regarding a possible Kinks' reunion is somewhat nerve-racking when it should be cause for jubilation. But hard-core Kinks' fans know the fragile relationship of brothers Ray and Dave Davies, could snap expectations of a reunion into pieces, as it has [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Unlike many week's this year, this would have to be one of the most insignificant in comparison as far as new music releases. There are simply no "big" releases this week as we've seen for other weeks over the past few months - like Radiohead, The Strokes, Panda Bear, Foo Fighters, The Decemberists, Bright Eyes, [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
by Max Silver Indio, Calif. Filed: 4/16 8:00 p.m. Finally, the desert of southern California is twisting away from the blazing sun, and a nice coolness is settling in. As night descends, everywhere you turn to look there cellphone lights on, like thousands of futuristic glowing jelly fish floating on the dark and calm sea. [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Record Store Day is here, and we're presenting this comprehensive guide with recommended limited edition vinyls, including singles, split singles, compilations, reissues, covers, EPs, unreleased tracks, and much more. So, far, we've posted a massive volume one of IRC's top RSD releases, followed by volume two, featuring recommended vinyl cover songs being released as singles, [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
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
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