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Top 10 Indie Rock Songs of The Week on IRC

Each week, we'll update this page to reflect which songs tens of thousands of people from all corners of the globe listen to the most on IRC. We use site statistics to assemble this list, but these lists are just a representation of all of the other great songs we feature on IRC each week.

March 7 - March 13

1. "Excuses" - The Morning Benders
2. "Hope Child" - Free Energy
3. "The High Road" - Broken Bells
4. "Song for Dreaming" - Justin Claiborne
5. "Conscience Killer" - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
6. "Swim Until You Can't See Land" - Frightened Rabbit
7. "Avenue of Criminals" - The Canon Logic
8. "A More Perfect Union" - Titus Andronicus
9. "I Will Live on Islands" - Josh Rouse
10. "The Mighty Sparrow" - Ted Leo & The Pharmacists

February 28 - March 6

1. "Good Morning" - Rogue Wave
2. "Huffy Ten Speed" - Body Language
3. "Passive Idol" - Twin Tigers
4. "Some Day Maybe" - City Light
5. "It's Come To This" - Barzin
6. "By and By" - Lay Low
7. "Hot Sprawl" - Man/Miracle
8. "You Were Young" - Yes Giantess
9. "Cross Walk Stereo" - The Pass
10. "Pink Graffiti" - Secret Cities

February 21 - 27

1. "Hellhole Ratrace" - Girls
2. "Walls" - Shout Out Louds
3. "Apollo & the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh!" -
4. "Life Coach" - Fang Island
5. "This is Real" - Best Coast
6. "My Alarm" - New Faces
7. "Bright New Worlds" - The Exhibition
8. "Hoop+Wire" - Boy Eats Drum Machine
9. "Black Eyes" - Shearwater
10. "Plastic People" - Four Tet

February 14 - 20

1. "Damrell's Fire" - The Dimes
2. "What A Drag" - Bear Hands
3. "Real Love" - Beach House
4. "Apollo & The Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh!" - Sunset Rubdown
5. "Grey Is Old" - Furcast
6. "Static Waves" - Andrew Belle
7. "Sunhands" - Local Natives
8. "Measure" - Field Music
9. "Hellhole Ratrace" - Girls
10. "Constellations" - The Hush Now

February 7 - 13

1. "Real Love" - Beach House
2. "Gold Mine" - Showstar
3. "Dynomania" - The Vermicious K'nids
4. "Life Stand" - Hot Chip
5. "Waves" - Vinca Minor
6. "Resident of the Lost Club" - Showstar
7. "Ambling Alp" - Yeasayer
8. "Away Oh Way Oh" - The Vermicious K'nids
9. "The Streets and Their Names" - Koria Kitten Riot
10. "Many Are Cold" - Drew Danburry
*Most of the songs from the Valentine mixes, except those that were from recent releases, were excluded because they were not technically 'new' nor necessarily 'indie'

Jan. 31 - February 6

1. "Let's Go Down" - Family of the Year
2. "Acts of Man" - Midlake
3. "Rather Be Dead" - Bottle Up & Go
4. "Falling from the Sun" - The Album Leaf
5. "The Sea is a Good Place to Think About the Future" - Los Campesinos
6. "Fishsticks" - The Heligoats
7. "The Darkest Side" - The Middle East
8. "Dynomania" - The Vermicious K'nids
9. "Organic Mechanics" - Everthus The Deadbeats
10. "Caroline & I" - Kentucky Nightmare

Jan. 24 - 30

1. "Norway" - Beach House
2. "Misfits Mistakes" - Superchunk
3. "Walk On a Lonely Road" - The Magnetic Fields
4. "I Am Your Head" - Elephantom
5. "Aurora Surrealis" - Elephantom
6. "Something Unreal" - Ex-Norweigan
7. "Intergalactic Spell" - Beastie Boys vs. Alphabeat
8. "Made Up of Tiny Lights" - We All Have Hooks for Hands
9. "Blood" - The Middle East
10. "Love is Like Water" - Pistol for Ringo

Jan. 17 - 23

1. "Written in Reverse" - Spoon
2. "My Girls" - Animal Collective
3. "Wouldn't Change A Thing" - Fox Fagan
4. "Rich Doors" - New Villager
5. "End Times" - The Eels
6. "Swim" - Surfer Blood
7. "Actors" - In Flight Safety
8. "Dominos" - The Big Pink
9. "Frozen Beach" - Feral Children
10. "Nuke Duke Em" - Dinowalrus

Jan. 10 - 16

1. "Wouldn't Change A Thing" - Fox Fagan
2. "Don't Be Long" - Army of Me
3. "Boy Lilikoi" - Jonsi
4. "Giraffe Kiss" - Sore Eros
5. "Carnival" - Threes and Nines
6. "Wounded" - Jay Reatard
7. "Six Feet Under" - Louis Aguilar
8. "Small Catastrophe" - Tiny Tin Hearts
9. "He She We Me" - Trees and Trash
10. "Monuments" - My Summer as a Salvation Soldier

Jan. 3 - 9

1. "Boy Lilikoi" - Jonsi Birgisson
2. "Small Catastrophe" - Tiny Tin Hearts
3. "Stars Still Pretty" - Aeroplane Pageant
4. "Do The Sucker" - The Sun
5. "Six Feet Under" - Louis Aguilar
6. "Happiness" - Jonsi & Alex
7. "The Ride" - Oryan
8. "Helicopter" - Twilight Revival
9. "Flirted With You All My Life" - Vic Chesnutt
10. "Bleed It Out" - Lunaria

Dec. 26 - Jan. 2

1. "Bleed It Out" - Lunaria
2. "I Am Blind" - Elephant Stone
3. "Paralysed" - Lunaria
4. "Feel Animal" - Monogold
5. "Distaccati" - Clock Hands Strangle
6. "Dirty Fighters" - The Doups
7. "Josephine" - Dylan in the Movies
8. "You Want To Do It With Me" - Six Simple Songs
9. "Alien" - The Sun
10. "The Large Bouquet" - The French Semester

Note: Due to the holidays, and the huge number of downloads from our Christmas and holiday mixes, no Top Ten lists from Dec. 15 to Dec. 25 are available.

Dec. 7 - Dec. 14*

1. "Feel Animal" - Monogold
2. "The Large Bouquet" - The French Semester
3. "Dead Sea Minerals" - Monogold
4. "This Year" - Hurricane Bells
5. "Song For A Son" - The Smashing Pumpkins
6. "Little Bird Courage" - Old Canes
7. "Something More" - Slideshow Freak
8. "Cali" - Hosta
9. "What's It In For?" - Avi Buffalo
10. "Phoneme" - STS9
Does not include Christmas songs which have been very popular during the past few weeks.

Nov. 30 - Dec 6

1. "Madeline" - The Delfields
2. "Back in Town" - Wiretree
3. "Falling" - Wiretree
4. "Marching to War" - Morningbell
5. "You Know" - Sean Walsh & The National Reserve
6. "Echoes of Time" - The Smiles and Frowns
7. "Flaming Arrow" - Jupiter One
8. "This Year" - Hurricane Bells
9. "The Gang's All Gone" - The Parkas
10. "Shelter" - The Swimmers

Nov. 23-29

1."Suicide Blues" - Brimstone Howl
2."Pocketful of Debt" - Sunset
3."This Year" - Hurricane Bells
4."Why Remember Me" - Andy Mitchell
5."So Long Sundays" - The Sun
6."Unpredictable" - Tahiti 80
7."Green Truck" - Sunset
8."Passagrille" - Chromatic Flights
9."I Am A Rock (Simon & Garfunkel)" - Chromatic Flights
10."Little Bird Courage" - Old Canes

Nov. 16-22

1. "Beach Comber" - Real Estate
2. "Fright Lined Dining Room" - Arctic Monkeys
3. "Genesis 3:23" - The Mountain Goats
4. "Fake Blues" - Real Estate
5. "Hannah" - Freelance Whales
6. "Swim (To The End)" - Surfer Blood
7. "New Fang" - Them Crooked Vultures
8. "Serve Them Well" - Swimming in Speakers
9. "Tunnelvision" - Here We Go Magic
10. "Terminally Chill" - Neon Indian


Note: This feature was temporarily put on the back burner in September 2009, but due to popular demand, has been restarted.

Aug. 25 - Sept. 1

"I Am The Universe" - Mellow Down Easy
"Chain" - Vic Chestnut
"Technology" - Mayday!
"Stranger" - Hopewell
"Tiny Little Robots" - Cage The Elephant
"Devils Loose" - A.A. Bondy
"Charge" - Low Water
"Vancouver" - The Hush Now
"Getting Higher" - Evan Voytas

Top 10 Indie Songs - August 18-24

"Oslo Novelist" - Grand Archives
"Free Energy" - Free Energy
"Wind Phoenix" - Cymbals Eat Guitars
"My Twisted Words" - Radiohead
"My Unusual Friend" - Fruit Bats
"Sacred Trickster" - Sonic Youth
"Naive Brother" - Plus 49
"Voodoo Taxi" - Low Water
"Never Seen" - Lightning Dust

Top 10 Indie Songs - August 11-18

"These Are My Twisted Words" - Radiohead
"Apples" - The Soft Hills
"Crying Lightning" - Arctic Monkeys
"Suicide" - The Raveonettes
"Nothing But Time" - Opus Orange
"Psychic City" - Yacht
"Got Nuffin" - Spoon
"Here To Fall" - Yo La Tengo
"Fables" - The Dodos

 

Top 10 Indie Songs - August 4-11

"Moon And Moon" - Bat For Lashes
"Don't Look Back"- Black Them Boots
"Drowning Men"- Fanfarlo
"Falleg Depurd"- Blindfold
"Tiny Little Robots" - Cage The Elephant
"Gold And Warm" - Bad Veins
"No You Girls" - Franz Ferdinand
"It's Alright" - Opus Orange