New Tracks Weekend, March 14-16, 2025

New Tracks Weekend, March 14-16, 2025

Packed with new. This weekend features some great returns to our airwaves, as well as some fresh-faced debuts worthy of your consideration. Headliners this weekend include BADVRIL, Crux of Faith, feeble little horse, Well Adjusted, copperplate, Pure Hex (pictured above), Yndling, and Paper Lady. But there's so much more! Fresh sounds from la lune, Mount Mural, kinoue64, The Age of Colored Lizards, Waving Blue, overly polite tornadoes, DROEM, supergloom, Ghosts […]

March 14, 2025 141

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New Tracks Weekend, January 24-26, 2025

Late promo for New Tracks Weekend doesn't mean the elves have been shirking. Behind the scenes, all manner of new sounds are being shuffled and sorted, trying to come up with the best possible presentation of the new standout releases for your casual consumption. headliners this weekend include Red Vanilla, Cigarettes for Breakfast, motifs (with Sun Cell), feeble little horse, Go With Strangers, Marathon Runner, No Culture (pictured above), Messier […]

January 25, 2025 185 8 2

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New Tracks Weekend, December 13-15, 2024

Another weekend, another 50-plus new tracks all sorted and rotation-weighted, awaiting your consideration. Headliners this weekend include Futureheaven, Casino Hearts, XO, Daydream Twins, PINK MEXICO, Silvermash, Pure Hex, PAASTEL, We Are Imaginary, Ultra Bloom, and we finally get up-to-date with smush (pictured above) after celebrating all their initial singles, we're nudged to consider the rest of their impeccable album. But we're also celebrating a forthcoming live release from The Boo […]

December 13, 2024 149

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New Tracks Weekend, October 25-27, 2024

Plenty new material to celebrate this weekend, including the new LP from Trauma Ray that's been much buzzed about. But we're deep in great new tunes to share! Headliners include Pure Hex, Relay Tapes, She's In Parties, Springloader (pictured above), Brief Candles, Momma and more. A fantastic support cast is also on offer: fresh sounds from Glimmer, The Blue Herons, Seko, Farewell Days, WYBIE, Lone Seagull, After Daylight, Georgian, pure […]

October 25, 2024 163 11 2

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New Tracks Weekend, May 17-19, 2024

Much to celebrate this weekend, as we "lean in" on several hotly-anticipated new releases. We're glad to finally get hands on new music from Draag, Pure Hex (pictured above), ultranøia, and Snowcuffs (premiered on last night's The Velvet Hum). But we're knee-deep in compelling new sounds, including A Shoreline Dream, Air Formation, moon cowboy, witherbride, Parallel, SUNWISE, With Glee, Eosine, Superdrone, Luma Fade, Shhadows & Small Planets, Kitten Paws, lucidbloom, […]

May 17, 2024 202 1

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New Tracks Weekend, March 15-17, 2024

Plenty new music to celebrate this week, so let's get the party started, shall we? Among our headliners, we're celebrating new releases from Graywave, No Desire, ADORER, Boy With Apple, Cusp, DIIV, Pure Hex, Hazel English, New Age Healers, Donna Martin Graduates, Miki Berenyi Trio, Future Nostalgia, Kai Tak, RINSE, Kitten Paws, and You're Jovian (pictured above). And that's just the start. We're also sharing compelling new sounds from Lasitud, […]

March 15, 2024 252 13

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New Tracks Weekend, February 16-18, 2024

We're loaded down with new sounds for your ears. Headliners this weekend include Glixen (pictured above), about to embark on a big nationwide tour, as well as Magic Shoppe (premiered here), DIIV, Pure Hex, Relay Tapes, somesurprises, Kindsight, and eli's ladder. And that's just the front line, our bench is much deeper: Agent Blå, Fun With Ether, Lesser Angels, april june, Layzi, ADORER, L23, Double Grave, Memory Leak, Stellarscope, ANGGISLUKA, […]

February 16, 2024 169 9

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DKFM 2022 Shoegaze & Dream Pop Albums of the Year

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 […]

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New Tracks Weekend, June 3-5, 2022

Based on sheer volume of new tracks submissions, you'd think it was Bandcamp Friday (it's not, but it will resume in September). More new releases, and more track-for-track quality, than we're used to on any given weekend. Albums, we're celebrating Horsegirl, Just Mustard, Gone, Droopies, Animal Ghosts, Jōetsu Shore, Kamikaze Nurse (pictured above), Pure Hex, Minaxi, and select album tracks from Les Manteez. And those are just the albums. We're […]

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