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Even though 2011 is officially history, we still have plenty of ‘best of 2011′ music posts in the works to be published in the coming weeks. For the past couple of months, we’ve been digging through our post archives and putting together Best Songs of 2011 mixes by month. This installment is focused on the [...]
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With February already in full swing, the 2012 music release calendar is really starting to shape up thanks to a jackpot of new albums released this week, and over the past couple of weeks. There are so many new albums that have released this week that decided to split this installment of the Best New [...]
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Flashback: It’s July 2011. Summertime is running full steam, and great new songs and albums are coming in from all directions. New releases from Beirut, Washed Out, Memory Tapes, and others are burning up the blogs. This July playlist mix – officially, Best Songs of 2011, Vol. VII – highlights one of the things that [...]
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On Friday, we posted the first part of a two-part installment highlighting this past week’s Best New Releases. The first installment includes a jackpot of solid singles from new albums by bands like Dr. Dog, of Montreal, A Place to Bury Strangers, The Twilight Sad, The Duke Spirit, Ben Kweller, Sharon Van Etten, Bahamas, and [...]
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for the week ending 1/27/12



Top 30 Airplay

Rank ARTIST Recording Label

1 BLACK KEYS    El Camino    Nonesuch

2 GOTYE    Making Mirrors Universal Republic

3 GIRL IN A COMA    Exits And All The Rest    Blackheart

4 DUKE SPIRIT    Bruiser    Shangri-La

5 BLEEDING KNEES CLUB    Virginity    Iamsound

6 SUMMER CAMP   Welcome To Condale    Moshi Moshi

7 ASHTAR COMMAND     American Sunshine    Obey

8 DAVID NEWTON AND THEE MIGHTY ANGELS Paint The Town [EP] Parkfield

9 GUIDED BY VOICES    Let’s Go Eat The Factory GBV

10 PEGGY SUE    Acrobats    Yep Roc

11 HIGHWAY GIMPS She    Self-Released

12 BRIEF CANDLES   Fractured Days    Guilt Ridden Pop

13 OLIVIA BROADFIELD This Beautiful War    Cherry Bang

14 CLOUD CONTROL    Bliss Release    Turnout

15 PALOMAR    Sense And Antisense     Self-Released

16 RUN DAN RUN    Normal    Hearts And Plugs

17 NADA SURF    The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy    Barsuk

18 BLACK BOX REVELATION     Shiver Of Joy [EP]    Self-Released

19 ASTEROIDS GALAXY TOUR    Out Of Frequency    BMG

20 WOODEN WAND    Briarwood    Fire

21 KILL MOI    Hold Me, Motherfucker    Self-Released

22 CAPSULA    In The Land Of Silver Souls    Krian

23 ZOOS OF BERLIN    Pallister Chant   Time No Place

24 LOVERS    I Was The East    Self-Released 

25 BIG PINK    Future This    4AD

26 CARDINAL    Hymns    Fire

27 NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS    Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds    Island

28 RIVAL SONS    Pressure And Time    Earache

29 CATE LE BON     CYRK    The Control Group

30 SAN CISCO    Awkward    Self-Released 

Radio 200 Adds (new releases added to rotation)

Rank ARTIST Recording Label

1 A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS    Onwards To The Wall       Dead Oceans

2 BLACK BELLES    The Black Belles    Third Man

3 ROYAL BATHS       Better Luck Next Life       Kanine

4 THE KNOCKS    Magic    Octone

5 TRAILER TRASH TRACYS     Ester    Domino

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480 Minutes will be another new music extravaganza this week following another week of submissions that topped the 600-song plateau.  Repeat after me: the music industry is thriving, the archaic lying cheating stealing record industry is dying.  The music industry is thriving, the archaic lying cheating stealing record industry is dying…


Today we will be giving away tickets for the Copenhagen band The Asteroids Galaxy Tour show at The Independent in San Francisco next Wednesday, 2/15.  Tune in and get in touch when you hear an AGT song and you might just win yourself a pair of tickets!  (Please note that you must be 21+ to win tickets/attend this show).  I’m going to be there, you should be too!  Buy tickets here.

Today we will debut tunes by Ariane Moffatt (Quebec, Canada), Audra Mae & The Almighty Sound (Los Angeles, CA), Bahamas (Toronto, Canada), Bears (Cleveland, OH), The Big Sleep (Brooklyn, NY), Coast Jumper (San Francisco, CA), Cursive (Omaha, NE), Frankie Rose (Brooklyn, NY), Heartless Bastards (Austin, TX), High Highs (New York, NY), Kellen & Me ( Fox River Grove, IL), Liftoff (Washington, DC), Mark Lanegan Band (Seattle, WA),  Opposite Sex (Dunedin, New Zealand), Papa (Los Angeles, CA), Pepe Deluxé (Helsinki, Finland, New York, NY), Sharon Van Etten (Brooklyn, NY), Tennis (Denver, CO), and Water Liars (St. Louis, MO/Oxford, MS), 

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Bay Area Gig eList

Los Campesinos @ Great American 2/10

Social Distortion @ Fox Theater (Oakland) 2/10 & 2/11

Loquat @ Bottom of the Hill 2/11

*The Asteroids Galaxy Tour/ Vacationer @ The Independent 2/15

Gomez/ Hey Rosetta! @ The Fillmore 2/18

The Darkness @ The Fillmore 2/21

% Cursive/ Ume/ Virgin Islands/ Taxes @ Great American Music Hall 2/22

% Built To Spill @ The Fillmore 2/23

% Thao/ John Vanderslice @ Bottom of the Hill 2/23

% The Soft Pack/ Fidlar @ Cafe du Nord 2/23

% Imperial Teen/ 20 Minute Loop @ Cafe du Nord 2/24

Adam Ant @ The Regency Grand 2/24

G. Love & Special Sauce @ The Fillmore 2/24

% Matthew Dear @ Public Works 2/24

% Laura Veirs & The Tumble Bees @ Swedish American Hall 2/25

% Archers of Load @ Great American Music Hall 2/25

% Surfer Blood @ The Independent 2/25

% The Dodos/ AU @ Great American 2/26

Ty Segall @ Great American 3/2

*Elliott Brood/ The Pack A.D. @ Rickshaw Stop 3/2

Punch Brothers @ The Fillmore 3/8

*The Twilight Sad @ The Independent 3/8

Hugh Cornwell (Stranglers) & Clem Burke (Blondie) & Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols) @ Red Devil Lounge 3/16

Kaiser Chiefs @ The Fillmore 3/20

Ian McCulloch (Echo & The Bunnymen) @ Bimbo’s 3/20

*Of Montreal @ Slim’s 3/21 & 3/22

Nada Surf @ The Fillmore 3/21

*The Magnetic Fields @ Fox Theater (Oakland) 3/24

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** = We’re DJing

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There have been so many notable new releases that dropped in the past week that music lovers have plenty of great, new music to keep them busy, and which explains partly why we’re late with this post (this week’s releases will be posted soon, but first the really good stuff).  The quantity and quality of [...]
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Most of the new releases for this week dropped on the last day of last month, making January a pretty rad month for new releases after a relatively slow start (which is typical right after the holidays), and a great way to kick-off the 2012 music calendar. In case you missed any of IRC’s Best [...]
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for the week ending 2/03/12



Top 30 Airplay

Rank ARTIST Recording Label

1 GUIDED BY VOICES    Let’s Go Eat The Factory GBV

2 PEGGY SUE    Acrobats    Yep Roc

3 GOTYE    Making Mirrors    Universal Republic

4 DUKE SPIRIT    Bruiser    Shangri-La

5 BLACK KEYS    El Camino    Nonesuch

6 BLEEDING KNEES CLUB    Virginity    Iamsound

7 PALOMAR    Sense And Antisense    Self-Released

8 RUN DAN RUN    Normal    Hearts And Plugs

9 CAPSULA    In The Land Of Silver Souls    Krian

10 SUMMER CAMP    Welcome To Condale    Moshi Moshi

11 ASHTAR COMMAND     American Sunshine   Obey

12 GIRL IN A COMA   Exits And All The Rest    Blackheart

13 HIGHWAY GIMPS    She    Self-Released

14 BIG PINK    Future This    4AD

15 BRIEF CANDLES    Fractured Days    Guilt Ridden Pop

16 SAN CISCO    Awkward    Self-Released

17 NADA SURF    The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy  Barsuk

18 OLIVIA BROADFIELD This Beautiful War   Cherry Bang

19 DAVID NEWTON AND THEE MIGHTY ANGELS Paint The Town [EP]    Parkfield

20 ASTEROIDS GALAXY TOUR    Out Of Frequency    BMG

21 RIVAL SONS    Pressure And Time    Earache

22 CATE LE BON     Cyrk    The Control Group

23 CARDINAL    Hymns    Fire

24 PAPER SCISSORS    In Loving Memory    Source

25 BEN KWELLER    Go Fly A Kite   Noise Company

26 GOOD FIELD    Good Field    Self-Released

27 PORCELAIN RAFT    Strange Weekend    Secretly Canadian

28 TRAILER TRASH TRACYS     Ester    Domino

29 CLOUD CONTROL    Bliss Release    Turnout

30 THE D.A.    You Kids!    Self-Released

Radio 200 Adds (new releases added to rotation)

Rank ARTIST Recording Label

1 LITTLE BARRIE    King Of The Waves Tummy Touch

2 MARK LANEGAN BAND    Blues Funeral    4AD

3 BAND OF SKULLS    Sweet Sour    Vagrant

4 PINK MINK    Pink Mink    little veronica

5 SHEARWATER    Animal Joy    Sub Pop

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