This albums chart is specific: rated only by number of total spins from an album on our air. It's an imperfect methodology, punishing those releases in the latter half of the year, but... it's also the easiest to prove, with a spin count to back it up. So, it's raw data that can be trusted, even if it does favor early-year releases. The only exception to the accuracy of this […]
This albums chart is specific: rated first by number of album tracks graduating to long-term rotation, second by total spins. And there's a methodology to that madness: many crucial albums unleashed in the latter half of the year. Those LPs, solid as they may be, would suffer under a "total spins" criteria, because there was less of a year to spin them in. This specific chart helps level the playing […]
Bandcamp Friday grinds some processes to a crawl, as every qualified artist (and a few less qualified) vie for attention and appreciation. Having sorted and rotation weighted over 120 tracks, we'll try to appreciate every artist we can this weekend. And there's a lot to celebrate. New albums from Alvvays, Bolinas, absinthe father, Beabadoobee, Lilac, Night School, Indoxables, MILLY, No Sun, and Twin Drugs (pictured above) are all headliners and […]
76 new tracks, sorted and rotation-weighted, ready to present for your approval. Big weekend, let's run it down: we're celebrating new albums from The Black Angels, Darkswoon, and Nuit (pictured above). Each album is radically different from another, but all have something compelling to contribute to the weekend festivities. But we're also thrilled to boost up the newest releases from Alvvays, Sweet homé, Absinthe Father, New Ghost, Grimoires, Acid Dad, […]
68 fresh tracks, sorted and rotation weighted for your enjoyment. We're ready! We're celebrating the latest from Alvvays, Cruel Sister, Julie, Sungazer, Milly, Twin Drugs, The Dreamtoday, BED, Lumenette (above, left), Mouse (above, right), and two sneak peek tracks from station favorites Bellavista, releasing imminently. But that's not all... we're also celebrating the latest from Winter of our Faith, Slo Moon, absinthe father, Bathrobe, Churrus, Desert Flower, Dial Tone, Pope, […]
Thinking it might be a slow weekend for new music, we sort of went into cruise control. Wrong. Always wrong. We have the honor of previewing next week's release of When The Sun Hits (the band, not the blog, or the classic Slowdive song) on Saint Marie Records. Immersed Within Your Eyes drops next week, and you can hear why SMR was rightly buzzed about these Nottingham lads. But, more. Former […]
There is no break from the new, not now, not ever. We're proudly pushing the newest albums from Cloakroom, Season of Strangers, Honeyrude, Black Nite Crash, A Certain Smile, and New Age Healers, new EPs from navyblue (pictured above), COSme, and DAZE, plus the freshest singles from Hypnotic Kingdom (ex Cheatahs), Yumi Zouma, Plasticstatic, Cat Hoch, Candace, Jeff Mannix and the Depressives, Sound of Ceres, Lubec, Hurricane Heart Attacks, Alvvays, We […]
Packed in with all the new, all at once. Headliners include Lowtide, returning with a sparkling single, the rest of the new Softsurf debut EP makes it into rotation (finally!), new Knifeplay we've been buzzing about, pre-release music from the new Crash City Saints LP (previewed here), due next week. New treasures from The Sorry Shop, Wildhoney, Todavia, The Luxembourg Signal, Surf Rock is Dead, Lazy Legs, Widowspeak, Deerhoof, Soda […]
