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Lots of new music this week including tracks from Thundercat, Fluid Japan, The Bags, and Matador artists Snail Mail and Lifeguard. No matter how dark the big bad world becomes, it can always be dissolved in a barrage of guitar or a sweet melody. Chocolate chip cookies help too.Continue reading→

Another week, another bunch of stuff to freak out about. Fortunately, there is music to distract us… Like WBBL, a London dj guy who released a new single, Suzy, just this week. “Suzy” is a highly cheery dance number with a great late century bounce. Winning in every way. Another dance track that we especially...Continue reading→

Mud season is moving in, leaving swamps where snow piles once stood. All over the world, musicians are shaking off their winter sofa blankets and releasing music again. For this week's playlist, extra credit and priority was given to bands composed of actual musicians playing musical instruments.Continue reading→

For your especial delectation: love songs from new artists including "Puddles" by UNA, "New Chain" by Two Bad Bricks, and "dirty little lovers" by Dead Oak. Dead Oak's album waking comatose seems pretty remarkable on first listen -- we'll be playing more from that in coming weeks. We also enjoyed the single from Reds, Pinks & Purples, a cover of a Japanese band called Pervenche, as well as the entire new album Spider Dreamer Sweet Tooth by Friends of Cesar Romero. The wincingly appropriate "Royalty Loyalty" by XOXO Xopher is a real toe-tapper too...Continue reading→

What happens next? No one knows. Some people find it in ambient dreamland, some in introspection, in brave and outspoken eccentricity. This week’s selection had a little of all of these and more. We enjoyed the folky charm of Gabriel Carter (with harmonica!) and (in a very different way) the controlled chaos of Lukas Valkucak....Continue reading→

After a couple off weeks, due to powerlessness and connectivity issues, even now in the most modern era ever, we did the show we had planned to do the week before. From 21st century reworks of songs from Hair to a passel of songs about doggies, there was plenty to sing your teeth into. Favorite new song of the week: Gregory Frost's protest anthem "Constant Crisis" from the album of the same name. Thanks, dude. We needed that.Continue reading→

And lo, on the heels of my post to the contrary, a burst of activity from American musicians, ending the European dominance on Bandcamp since, oh, January. But this week, there were American artists and more than one, maybe as many as five, and that's a big jump. Here at Indiedisco, we are rooting for our fellow Americans to pick it up and go with it. Perhaps we will. This week's top vote getter for band of the week is Gold Dust, from Easthampton, MA, a quartet led by songwriter and former punk rocker Stephen Pierce.Continue reading→

This week, we were able to come up with three new tracks from American artists, a bit of a rarity these days as Americans seem to have been laying low. Since there are only three of them, we will introduce them here as: The Needmores, a thoroughly engaging rock band from Detroit, Michigan whose new song "Lookin'" is in the Cars tradition or thereabouts. Leaves Floating On The Water is a jam rock project...Continue reading→

If you were to judge the spirit of America by the number of new releases showing up on Bandcamp right now, you would have to assume that something has happened. But what? What could have happened to so thoroughly crush Americans' creative spirit. Other than the perennial electronic and death metal releases, there just doesn't seem to be much going on out there in Tune-land. I attribute it...Continue reading→

Our favorite band of the week turned out to be my favorite band of last year, despite the fact that I only just discovered them — The Breaks Inc. and their amazing album Hotel Earth.  Also, belatedly, a couple of tracks from the Chillhop Winter Essentials disc and new music from Mogwai.  Not to mention...Continue reading→

Here in the northeast, we’re in that peak/past peak moment with foliage. We balance precariously at this point for quite a few days before one day the weatherman pronounces decisively, “we’re past peak,” and you know it’s true. It’s also a time when we balance precariously between two radically different views of the future —...Continue reading→