New Tracks Weekend, February 2-4, 2024

New Tracks Weekend, February 2-4, 2024

Culled hundreds of pitches and Bandcamp release notifications down to sixty crucial cuts for injection into New Tracks Weekend rotation, and we're pretty keen on the lot. Headliners this weekend include NewDad (pictured above), whose long-awaited debut LP is an early contender for album of the year. We're also celebrating Daysleepers' offshoot project Sinking Gardens, maintaining the impressive songcraft Jeff Kandefer is known for. We're also finally getting to spin […]

February 2, 2024 148

New Tracks Weekend

New Tracks Weekend, March 1-3

Another amazing week for new music, with two long-awaited albums released just this morning. WESTKUST released their second LP today, and Living Hour (pictured above) unleashed Softer Faces, their second full album of original material. And the two LPs couldn't be more different, but neither is less charming for the difference. Westkust remains focused on hummable tunes wrapped in distortion, while Living Hour appears to dismantle and reassemble the form, […]

March 1, 2019 66

New Tracks Weekend

New Tracks Weekend, February 23-25

New and pre-release music from everywhere, plus a few recent releases we haven't caught up to yet. We're celebrating the return of Beach Vacation, last seen when we'd spun them in 2013, and have since seen on milk cartons around Washington state. Okay, maybe that's an exaggeration. We catch up with Our Girl, formerly Soph Nathan (pictured above). Their "new" single is a rework of one of their early Soph […]

February 24, 2018 33

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