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
Paul Thomas Zito of Pittsburgh is a particular stand-out DIY musician for us this week in the cafe, and we're thinking may very well be for others too. From his new album, Darker Sea, Litter Sleep, Zito recently sent us two singles. While both tracks are fine songs, our favorite is "Cluster of String," a [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Volume One of the Best New Music Releases for the Week of Sept. 18th featured Grizzly Bear, Band of Horses, Dinosaur Jr., Menomena, Alt. J, and many others. This, Volume Two for the past week's best new releases, includes singles from The Sea and Cake, Sic Alps, Woods, Josephine Foster, How to Dress Well, Catherine [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
As with the past few weeks, there is no shortage of solid, accomplished album releases, so many so that there are more than a dozen standout tracks from the stack of albums that officially dropped for the week of September 18th. There are excellent singles from familiar bands such as Grizzly Bear, Dinosaur Jr., Band [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
As with the past few weeks, there is no shortage of solid, accomplished album releases, so many so that there are more than a dozen standout tracks from the stack of albums that officially dropped for the week of September 18th. There are excellent singles from familiar bands such as Grizzly Bear, Dinosaur Jr., Band [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
You probably won't hear the latest singles from the band, The Yours, on any other major indie blog or website, but the Lona Records recording artist from Hong Kong got our attention with two tracks they sent us from The Way We Were, which officially dropped last Saturday, September 15th. In fact, a search of The Hype [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
If you listened to Volume One and Volume Two of this week's Best New Music Release singles playlist, you not only heard amazing singles from artists ranging from The Ravonettes to David Bryne and St. Vincent, but also a few superb singles from DIY artists like Hello Echo and Ethan Daniel Davidson. Yet there are even more DIY [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
This week's drop of nearly two dozen fantastic, and some highly anticipated, albums continues to deliver memorable new singles from a mesmerizing range of artists, styles and genres. Yesterday, we posted the first half of this week's Best New Music Releases, featuring spectacular new singles from the latest albums by music giants like The Raveonettes, [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
It's a blockbuster week for new albums and the singles from those albums. Anticipated record releases from The Raveonettes, The xx, St. Vincent & David Byrne are some of the highlights of this week's new releases. There are also new albums by Thee Oh Sees, Turbo Fruits, Seapony, Calexico, Amanda Palmer and The Grand Theft [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Compared to July, the quality and quantity of new album releases for the month of August 2012 went a long way in saving this summer from being a bummer for new indie rock music. There are still two weeks of releases until summer officially ends on the fall equinox of September 21st. This is important [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Whether you love them or not, there's been a lot of buzz in the past couple of weeks around the new studio album, Centipede Hz, from Animal Collective. The album is apparently an effort to emulate the sound of radio, and in true Animal Collective fashion, with a TV-style interface, which you can listen to, [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
From the Great Lakes city of Toronto, Ontario, Kyle Woolven , a DIY electro-pop multi-instrumenta list and college student, self-released his first recording as Pekoe Cat on August 23rd, and sent us in a couple of his tracks. While this entry, from what we were able to find out, is the first time his music has been [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Chelsea Light Moving, a new band founded and fronted by Sonic Youth's iconic songwriter, singer and guitarist, Thurston Moore, will release its debut album via Matador on Sept. 25th. If the rocking single, "Moving Empires," and poetic "Burroughs," are any indication of the album itself, it's likely to be one of the best debuts of 2012. "Moving [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Every so often, while sifting through hundreds - thousands since 2008 - of artist and band music submissions, we come upon a DIY artist that stands out from all of the rest. The great thing about this series has always been that it profiles artists who are clearly talented, and are usually not widely known. [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
As summer fades, the number of new album releases steadily increases. Last week was one of the best weeks of the summer for new album releases, featuring new singles from the latest albums by bands like Yeasayer, Bloc Party, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, and others. This week, the musical offerings are even better, with singles [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Not surprisingly, there is a lot of buzz around the expected release of Animal Collective's 9th studio album, Centipede Hz, which is streaming, complete with psychedelic visuals, on the band's My Animal Home Radio website. Pre-order the Centipede Hz CD here, set to drop on Sept. 4th. New Albums Coming from Cat Power, The Raveonettes [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
With the end of summer approaching, the Best New Music Releases will start to get meatier than they have been for the past couple of months, starting with this week, the last full week of August 2012. Among the top releases this week include new albums from Bloc Party, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Yeasayer, Teengirl [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
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