Music By The Numbers, Mix 1: Built to Spill, The Antlers, Radiohead, Stars, Flaming Lips, Smashing Pumpkins, Joy Division, The Nails (0)
9/03/10 •
In the never-ending quest to share theme-based music playlists and mixes, this latest offering features great songs with numbers in their titles. With so many songs that have numbers in the title, the focus of this mix on some of the best to cross these ears over the years.
That said, this mix includes tracks from [...]
Recent Releases We Almost Missed, IX: Tiger! Sh*t! Tiger!, Venice Is Sinking, Goodnight Loving, Kingsley Flood, Luna is Honey (0)
9/02/10 •
“ Whispers” – Tiger! Sh*t! Tiger! from Whispers – July 15th
“Tugboat” – Venice is Sinking from Sand & Lines – June 15th
“Bullets” – Wilson Reservoir from self titled LP – June 29th
“The Pan” – Goodnight Loving from The Goodnight Loving Supper Party – July 20th
“Cul de Sac” – Kingsley Flood from Dust [...]
Best New Releases from Film School, Brothers Young, The Clientele, TV Buddhas, Dominant Legs, Sonny & The Sunsets (4)
8/31/10 •
Wow, it’s the end of August, already. That’s straight up crazy. Do any of you feel like you lost a summer? Surely, for folks in many parts of the country, the cooler days of late August, and the coming autumn, are welcomed after one of the hottest summers on record. Here in coastal northern California, [...]
2010 Songs You Might Not Have Heard: Clubfeet, Dark Mean, Jason Boesel, Old Lights, BLK JKS and More (1)
8/30/10 •
This is a new playlist that offers the non-restrictive type of playlist mix in which all of the songs have one thing in common: they are from sweet new releases from a variety of artists and bands that are not necessarily “big” in the alternative music worlds. All of the songs in this mix caught [...]
2010 Indie Summer Mix Vol. VII: Navajo Bixby, The Drums, Ariel Pink, Islands, She & Him, Beck, Julian Casablancas, Best Coast (1)
8/28/10 •
We’ve arrived at the second to last mega-MP3 summer songs playlist/mixtape for 2010 as summer slips away, the days get shorter, the heat cools off, and people are planning fall activities; in the cafe, we refer to them as the Last Blasts mixes. Enjoy.
“Moonlighting” – Navajo Bixby
“Let’s Go Surfing” (Raveonettes Remix) – The Drums
“Jogging Gorgeous [...]
Best New Releases from Ra Ra Riot, Eels, No Age, Abner Trio, Magic Kids, The Torches, Dead Confederate, !!!, Foxymorons + a Chill Mix (3)
8/25/10 •
As summer winds down, this last week of August brings with it a truck load of great new releases, and free and legal MP3s, from a virtual crop of new LPs, EPs, and singles from artists and bands like Ra Ra Riot (#1 in Amazon), Eels, No Age, Abner Trio, !!!, Dead Confederate, The Torches, [...]
2010 Releases We Almost Missed, Vol. XI: The Polyamorous Affair, Vehicle Blues, Living Days, Wartime Blues, Woven Bones, Jaill (1)
8/23/10 •
With the new music coming in from all directions non-stop all year long, we miss great new releases when they come out for one reason or another. That’s what this playlist mix series is for – to save face. Haha. No, really, it’s just a focused way to say, “hey, there’s great, new music we [...]
2010 Summer Mixtape, Vol. VI: Jane’s Addiction, Modest Mouse, Beck, Animal Collective, The Decemberists, The Kinks, Jason Mraz (2)
8/21/10 •
The long days of what has been a brutally hot and humid summer for many areas of the United States, Europe and Russia are beginning to wane as August tips towards September. Millions of kids are going back to school, people are returning from vacations, and millions more are hoping that the autumn brings more [...]
What’s Hot Right Now, Vol. VI: Chromeo, Royksopp, Arcade Fire, The Vaselines, No Age, Panda Bear, Small Black (3)
8/19/10 •
The What’s Hot Right Now mixtape series has been a huge hit with IRC’s regular readers and visitors from around the world. It’s been a few weeks since we did a ‘what’s hot’ mixtape. For those of you not familiar with this mixtape series, we analyze a number of aggregate sites – like Hypem.com and [...]
Best New Releases from Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Darker My Love, Jon Lindsay, Chief, Matthew Dear, Like Pioneers (2)
8/17/10 •
Hot new releases this week include fresh drops from Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Darker My Love, Jon Lindsay, Chief, and many others.
“Sink/Let It Sway” – Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin from Let It Sway
“Darker My Love” – Darker My Love from Alive As You Are
“My Blue Angels” – Jon [...]
