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After nearly five years since their last album, the long awaited, highly anticipated, and already wildly popular, new album by The Shins, Port of Morrow, was officially dropped this week. The release followed weeks of build-up and buzz, and was complimented by appearances on SNL, The Late Show, SXSW, and widespread coverage on mainstream media [...]
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With the kick-off of SXSW, it’s no big surprise that it is a thin week for new releases. That said, there is still a good collection of new singles from just dropped albums to pick from, including the lead track from The Ting Tings’ follow-up to their acclaimed debut; Atlanta’s Tiger! Tiger!, plus, Freshkills, Say [...]
Best new indie rock music, top new songs, popular rock bands, best new album releases, free MP3s, playlists & mixes

This is one of the best week of new releases so far this year. If you’re having a bad day, or week, this singles playlist from the Best New Releases of the week is a damn good antidote. This is only Part One of all the singles/albums we’re reviewing for the week; Part Two will [...]
Best new indie rock music, top new songs, popular rock bands, best new album releases, free MP3s, playlists & mixes

Wow, this is yet another great week for new releases. The singles from new albums have been sifted through and arranged into the following playlist – and it’s just one great track after another, and we hope you agree. The lead off track for this week’s Best New Releases was not easy to pick with [...]
Best new indie rock music, top new songs, popular rock bands, best new album releases, free MP3s, playlists & mixes

The past week’s best new releases include singles and albums from Shearwater, Oy Vey, Unicycle Loves You, Band of Skulls, Young Magic, Phenomenal Handclap Band, and others. Shearwater‘s indie psych rock mixed with folk art and powerful lyrics on the newest album, Animal Joy, is stunning, exciting, enjoyable and yet another big, bold step forward [...]
Best new indie rock music, top new songs, popular rock bands, best new album releases, free MP3s, playlists & mixes

This week’s Best New Releases is an interesting mix of anticipated new releases from artists such as Fun, Princeton, Grimes, Perfume Genius, Wild Nothing, and Dirty Ghosts. We wanted to focus on the top releases in this post, so there will be a Part Two shortly that contains all of the other top singles from [...]
Best new indie rock music, top new songs, popular rock bands, best new album releases, free MP3s, playlists & mixes

In Part One of this week’s Best New Releases, there are many lead singles off of new albums, bonus tracks and flashback tracks from artists like fun, Princeton, Grimes, Wild Nothing, Dirty Ghosts and Perfume Genius. We decided to split last week’s new releases into two posts, since we wanted the Part One installment to [...]
Best new indie rock music, top new songs, popular rock bands, best new album releases, free MP3s, playlists & mixes

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 [...]
Best new indie rock music, top new songs, popular rock bands, best new album releases, free MP3s, playlists & mixes

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 [...]
Best new indie rock music, top new songs, popular rock bands, best new album releases, free MP3s, playlists & mixes

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 [...]
Best new indie rock music, top new songs, popular rock bands, best new album releases, free MP3s, playlists & mixes