Sixty-plus new tracks, and some crucial cuts at that, all wrapped up and presented for your entertainment this weekend, as our new music discovery train leaves the station. Headliners this weekend include Nothing, Hatchie, Animal Ghosts, Echolust, Vixsin, lemondaze, Seventh Dose (pictured above), Affection to Rent, and silk daisys. But there's so much more on tap, including new music from Drop Nineteens' Paula Kelley, the debut from Grommet, and new […]
We're loaded down with new music this weekend, and it's gonna be a party. Headliners this weekend include Adorer, Hatchie (pictured above), All Sparks Burn Out, Powder Pink & Sweet, An Ocean of Embers, Open Road Archives (spectacular debut!) and Telephonist (spectacular debut!). But there's more: Plastic Girl in Closet, Old Coke, My Raining Stars, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, Our Worlds Collide, worse., Sun Colony, Puremoon, Silk, Looser, OMIDARI, Lovina […]
Bandcamp Friday, over 500 pitches and Bandcamp emails, culled to a total of just over 90 tracks for rotation injection. It's a wheelbarrowful of fresh tunes, and there's a lot to recommend here. Headliners this weekend include Kid Tigrrr, Flu Flu, Dummy, Hatchie, Cashier, Pink Mexico, Indoor Voices, LEAVS (pictured above), Tears Run Rings, More Earth Than Sea, Gift, Chokecherry, Fur Aliah, and Prettier Now. But there's so much more! […]
Packed in, we are. So much new: new singles to break, new artists to introduce, and a few artists we need to catch up with. Headliners include new sounds from Sunstinger, Bleach Lab, Flyying Colours, Chamber of Reflection, Hatchie, Collective Fear, Glixen, Mist Double, Thelma`s Dream, and Warm Human. We're also thrilled to introduce a fresh sound from our relative area: Bakersfield, CA's J.E.S.S. (pictured above, photo credit: Kristin Cofer). […]
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 […]
Didn't seem like we were overbooked this weekend, until we began the painstaking process of sorting and rotation weighting, and wow... we're well and truly packed. Headliners this weekend include Singapore's Motifs (pictured above), whose full length debut album fulfills all the promise of their early singles (and puts whipped cream on top), Life on Venus (broadcast premiere on Drowned in a Sea of Sound), Lumari (featured here), and a […]
It takes some chutzpah to configure and boot up a full New Tracks Weekend program after 36 hours of "stuttering" audio. One of our station taglines is "barely listenable noise", but that noise wasn't listenable at all. All our connections tested, all thoroughput solid, problem was definitely on broadcast distribution server. And their solution was to wait for self-correction. Welp, we waited as long as could, before taking matters into […]
A power-packed weekend we have in store... the newest albums from Hatchie and The Earth Earth lead all comers, in tunes and in buzz. And we're absolutely here for both, in their own creative spaces. But we're also keen on a raft of new tuneage from SGO (pictured above, formerly Syrup, Go On, with a single releasing next week), Leem of Earth, Singing Gum, Love Chemical, Dottie, Haiku Garden, blindlace, […]
