Blog Profile / Indie Rock Cafe
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| Filed Under: | Music / Indie Music | |
| Posts on Regator: | 742 | |
| Posts / Week: | 3.5 | |
| Archived Since: | June 15, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
Album Review: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ Weighty, Brilliant LP, ‘Push The Sky Away’
by Ed Biggs Thank goodness there are still veteran musicians these days who stick to what they’ve always done best – rock and roll. Although it’s rare, some older rockers get better with age, and that is the case with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Earlier this week, the band dropped their 15th studio [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Best New Music Releases, Week of Feb. 19th – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Atlas Genius, Beach Fossils, Iceage, Apparat, STRFKR, Mitzi, Eat Skull
The breadth of new 2013 music releases – albums, EPs and singles – that have been coming out in recent weeks, and those set to drop in the ensuing months, have been keeping us very busy, especially when you factor in all of the DIY releases that we receive on a weekly basis, which are [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Band Alert: San Diego Experimental Electro Psych-Pop Band The Glass Canoe
San Diego experimental psychedelic pop band, The Glass Canoe, released their widely praised album, Through Lianas, earlier this month, featuring dreamy, smooth electro pop songs with Beach Boys-like harmonies, guitar and synth interplay and fusions of various sound samples. Musician friends David Korrigan and Max O’Reilly began working together as a duo after discovering they [...]Show More Summary
Top New DIY & Small Label Releases from The Stone Foxes, Wild Wants, Brave Baby, Giuseppe Andrews, Fever Hut
The weekly Best New Releases post featured lead tracks from highly anticipated 2013 albums by Foals, The Little Ones, Veronica Falls, among others, and including a dozen more singles from a variety of artists and bands. In addition to the official release this week of new albums, EPs and singles from indie and alternative artists [...]Show More Summary
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For indie music lovers, it’s a big, big week for top new releases from a variety of popular artists and bands, including the Eels, Frightened Rabbit, Jim James, Guards, My Bloody Valentine, Grouper, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, Matt Pond, The Spinto Band, among others. The year in music for 2013 is starting [...]
Best New Releases, Week of Feb. 12th – Foals, The Little Ones, Veronica Falls, The March Divide, Millionyoung, Pissed Jeans, The VirginMarys
There has already been dozens of great 2013 new albums released over the past six weeks, that you can read about, and listen to, or download, the lead track from by browsing the best albums of 2013 posts. This week’s Best New Releases includes a collection of lead singles from new albums out this week [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Band of the Week – Scotland’s PAWS
The Glasgow lo-fi garage/punk pop trio PAWS gun it on their latest single, “Miss American Bookworm,” blasting out from the starting gate with a fast-driving, rhythmic, and vibrantly melodic romp. PAWS’ new album, Cokefloat!, released by Fat Cat Records, captures the energy and rawness (or ‘pawness’) of the band’s live shows, and per the title, is, as the [...]Show More Summary
New DIY Releases from The Ivory Elephant, The Diigz, Weepikes, Youngblood, Electric Kazoo, Animal Games, Fonda
There’s been a flood of new DIY singles and albums gushing in during recent weeks, including quite a few that that really stand out, and others that demonstrate promise. So far this year, there have been dozens and dozens of 2013 DIY singles from new LPs and EPs that have been popular with listeners and [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
No. 1 Songs for January 2013 – Pere Ubu, The Capsules, Gliss and Lost Animal
Hopes that 2013 will be a great year for independent and alternative rock music, with a wide variety of amazing albums and singles by well known, DIY and breakout bands were bolstered significantly by what turned out to be a strong January for music releases, offering music lovers plenty to listen to in the past [...]
Band of the Week: Ohio’s The Motel Beds
There’s something weirdly wonderful and charming about the otherwise slacker rock sound of Dayton, Ohio band The Motel Beds. We can’t remember a time recently when we heard such a promising band from Ohio. It’s not for lack of press that The Motel Beds haven’t broken out to a larger scene yet; in recent years, [...]
Best New Releases, Week of Feb. 5th – Frightened Rabbit, Eels, Jim James, Guards, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, Matt Pond
For indie music lovers, it’s a big, big week for top new releases from a variety of popular artists and bands, including the Eels, Frightened Rabbit, Jim James, Guards, My Bloody Valentine, Grouper, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, Matt Pond, The Spinto Band, among others. The year in music for 2013 is starting [...]
Top New DIY Releases – Is Paris Burning, Heyrocco, Matt Churchill, The Hyper Actives, No TV Tonight!, The Mazloom Empire, Rounds
This week’s top DIY album releases mix includes new singles, EPs and LPs from artists and bands from Kansas City, Brooklyn, Stockholm, and two artists and bands each from London and South Carolina. Embracing the C-86 music style of jangle pop fused with post-punk (even if they don’t realize it), Kansas City, Missouri indie rock [...]Show More Summary
Artist of the Week: Early Alan Younger
Not long ago, a regular IRC listener tipped us off to the impressive recordings of Minneapolis experimental folk singer and songwriter Early Alan Younger, who is the latest to be featured in the popular Artist of the Week series. As with so many artists we feature on IRC, Younger is a largely unknown figure in [...]
Best New Releases, Week of Jan. 29th – Local Natives, Golden Bloom, Tegan and Sara, The Ruby Suns, Lost Animal, Mice Parade
As with last week, this week’s lot of new albums offers an impressive collection of fresh releases to keep any music lover busy for the next few days. After more than three years, the popular indie band Local Natives finally dropped the follow-up to their 2009 widely-acclaimed debut record. The new album’s lead track, “Breakers,” [...]Show More Summary
5 DIY Bands to Watch in 2013, Vol. I – Hemmingbirds, Jumpiter, Cloud Lantern, The Jesus Rehab and Appalachians
Over the past few months, we have received, and reviewed, hundreds of submissions from mostly DIY artists and bands. In the coming weeks and months, we’ll be sharing the best artists of the hundreds of submissions we’ve reviewed (and will continue to review) with you via a number of playlists series that highlight talented unsigned [...]Show More Summary
Best Songs of 2012, Vol. II – The Lumineers, Jack White, Beach House, Edward Sharpe, Japandroids, Here We Go Magic, Zulu Winter
Recently, Volume One of the Best Songs of 2012, was posted, highlighting the weekly No. 1 songs from January through March of 2012. The weekly Top 10 Songs playlists reflect which songs posted in a week – mainly from the Best New Releases series – are streamed and downloaded the most. April 2012 April was [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Best New Releases, Week of Jan. 22nd – Ty Segall, Toro Y Moi, The Joy Formidable, Nightlands, The Growlers, Ra Ra Riot, FIDLAR, DRGN King
What a blockbuster week for new album drops, and the singles from those releases. In fact, this is the first week of 2013 in which there are a significant number of anticipated releases, as well as surprises, from a variety of well-known artists and bands. While the Best New Releases playlists posted in recent weeks [...]Show More Summary
New Releases from DIY and Indie Label Artists The Hot Dark, Norwegian Arms, Brave Baby, John Haesemeyer and Eric Howl
Earlier this week, IRC ran the Best New Releases of the week, featuring singles from new albums by artists like Yo La Tengo, Virals, Free Energy, Christopher Owens, as well as the Band of the Week, Scarlet Youth. This post is basically volume two with great new singles from DIY and small label artists like The [...]
Band of the Week – Helsinki, Finland’s Shoegaze/Dream Pop Band, Scarlet Youth
Update 1/19/13: We’ve resolved some issues with site accessibility and slowness. More improvements in the works. Thanks for your feedback and patience. The Helsinki, Finland band Scarlet Youth is barely on the North American indie music radar; in fact, it’s almost like they’re flying stealth. Coupled with their raw talent, the fact that they [...]Show More Summary
Best New Releases, Week of Jan. 14th – Yo La Tengo, Virals, Free Energy, Christopher Owens, Pickwick & Sharon Van Etten
The number of new album releases is now starting to pick up. In fact, this week presents a healthy dose of new drops from a variety of artists covering a wide spectrum of musical styles. Some of the more popular and well-known artists and bands with new material out this week include Yo La Tengo, [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe