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Yo La Tengo, Virals, Free Energy, Christopher Owe

by Keshav Ch on April 24, 2013

Best New Releases, Week of Feb. 5th – Frightened Rabbit, Eels, Jim James, Guards, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down

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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, and others. The year in music for 2013 is starting [...]
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Top New DIY Releases – Is Paris Burning, Heyrocco, Matt Churchill, The Hyper Actives, No TV Tonight!, Rounds

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This past 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 [...]
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Artist of the Week: Early Alan Younger

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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 [...]
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Best New Releases, Week of Jan. 29th – Local Natives, Golden Bloom, Tegan and Sara, The Ruby Suns, Lost Animal, Mice Parade

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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,” [...]
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Pere Ubu, The Capsules, Gliss and Lost Animal

by Keshav Ch on April 24, 2013

In Dee Mail Vol. XIII – Soviet, Odd Hours, Krejad, The Goodbye Radio, Curious Quail, Vague-A-Bonde

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by Maxwell Silver For a few years now, the In Dee Mail series has been a popular on-going feature because it introduces music lovers to obscure, but talented, alternative and indie rock artists. For many of the musicians it is their first exposure by a often for the first time, to alternative and indie rock [...]
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Best New Music Releases, Week of Feb. 26th – Atoms For Peace, Shout Out Louds, Grave Babies, Johnny Marr, Gold Fields

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Radiohead fans worldwide have something to celebrate this week following the release of the debut album from Thom Yorke‘s new music project, Atoms for Peace. Other singles from new albums that officially dropped this week included Shout Out Louds, Grave Babies, Johnny Marr, The Mavericks, among others. “Default” – Atoms For Peace from AMOK on [...]
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Album of the Week: My Bloody Valentine’s First Album in Over 20 Years Is An Immediate

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Singer/Songwriter Spotlight Series, Vol. VII – The

by Keshav Ch on April 24, 2013

5 DIY Bands to Watch, Vol. IV – White Like Fire, Aware Wolf, Peace Arrow, Raheem Cohen, and Spoons & Chopsticks

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Anyone who has been following IRC for some time knows that we roll differently than most indie and alternative music blogs and sites. In a given year, we feature hundreds of DIY and small label bands and artists that are not as well-known as they should be compared to their talents. Having listened to thousands [...]
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Way Back Now: Suede’s First Album in Over A Decade, ‘Bloodsports’

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by Ed Biggs Suede – Bloodsports Unlike many bands that seem to reunite cynically for the allure of the dollar, Suede (or The London Suede, depending on which side of the Atlantic you’re reading this) genuinely have unfinished business. Often credited with kick-starting the mid-1990s musical movement known as Britpop, their impressive back catalog was [...]
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Best New Music Releases, Week of March 19th – Low, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Suede, Fol Chin, Boy + Kite

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With the end of South By Southwest last weekend, the flow of new albums and EPs from well-known, popular and signed artists and bands has resumed, with releases such as our Album of the Week, Specter at the Festival by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and new drops from long-time slowcore favorites Low and Phosphorescent, plus [...]
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Album of the Week: The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s ‘Specter At The Feast’

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by J. Hubner The track, “Fire Walker,” opens quietly. It’s like opening a long forgotten book and beginning what would be many incredible chapters. “Fire Walker” is the opening sentence to a band’s reawakening. Robert Levon Been doesn’t come out swinging, but swaying ever so lightly. Tension and sadness permeate his voice as he sings [...]
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Artist of the Week – New York City DIY Singer/Song

by Keshav Ch on April 24, 2013

Band of the Week: The Away Days

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In the past 18 months, the college-formed Istanbul indie dream rock band The Away Days have been on quite a whirlwind journey, performing alongside music giants like Pulp and Kaiser Chiefs (at the One Love Festival), as well as Mark Ronson and Sam Sparro (at and Adidas All Originals Party event), and Factory Floor at [...]
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5 DIY Bands to Watch, Vol. V – Copies, Plastic Animals, Carson, Monkeybird, Sictor Valdana and The Check This Outs

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During the past few months, IRC has published dozens of posts that highlight promising DIY and small label indie bands to watch, including the 5 DIY Bands to Watch series. For the fifth installment of this popular series, the focus turns to highlighting overseas unsigned bands like Copies (Brazil), Plastic Animals (Scotland); Carson (Switzerland); Monkeybird [...]
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Best Songs of March 2013 – Atoms For Peace, Shout Out Louds, Youth Lagoon, Bowie, The Strokes, Wavves, Little Green Cars

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March was a fantastic month for new album releases, and for the singles from those albums, which makes this preview of the top three songs from each week of March’s Top 10 Songs playlists, a real treat, not only because there is so much terrific music, but also because the playlists reflect which songs – [...]
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Best New Music Releases, Week of April 2nd – Generationals, The Black Angels, Mudhoney, Hookworms, Cold War Kids

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This past week’s batch of the best new albums, and the lead singles from those albums, added more great music to 2013′s already impressive, and diverse, collection of alternative and indie music. Last week’s top indie songs playlist of new releases, like many so far this year, features an amazing diversity of excellent songs, from [...]
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The Black Angels’ New LP ‘Indigo Meadow

by Keshav Ch on April 12, 2013

5 DIY Bands to Watch, Vol. V – Copies, Plastic Animals, Carson, Monkeybird, Sictor Valdana and The Check This Outs

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During the past few months, IRC has published dozens of posts that highlight promising DIY and small label indie bands to watch, including the 5 DIY Bands to Watch series. For the fifth installment of this popular series, the focus turns to highlighting overseas unsigned bands like Copies (Brazil), Plastic Animals (Scotland); Carson (Switzerland); Monkeybird [...]
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Best Songs of March 2013 – Atoms For Peace, Shout Out Louds, Youth Lagoon, Bowie, The Strokes, Wavves, Little Green Cars

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March was a fantastic month for new album releases, and for the singles from those albums, which makes this preview of the top three songs from each week of March’s Top 10 Songs playlists, a real treat, not only because there is so much terrific music, but also because the playlists reflect which songs – [...]
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Best New Music Releases, Week of April 2nd – Generationals, The Black Angels, Mudhoney, Hookworms, Cold War Kids

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This past week’s batch of the best new albums, and the lead singles from those albums, added more great music to 2013′s already impressive, and diverse, collection of alternative and indie music. Last week’s top indie songs playlist of new releases, like many so far this year, features an amazing diversity of excellent songs, from [...]
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