New Tracks Weekend, August 15-17, 2025

New Tracks Weekend, August 15-17, 2025

New music discovery in full effect, and we've got the new for you. Headliners this weekend include Lemondaze, Sweet Tooth, Torre di Fine (pictured above), bosses, Hiccup Heart, lipstick, Shaki Tavi, motifs, and swim school. But there's so much more, including fresh and breaking tracks from PURPLISH, Slow Husky, Western Freeway, twen, Big Heck, nagisami, Los Membrillos, motifs, Kim Frasier, mouse ∕ mouse, Dru, Altai, Dramamine, biatlón, Eastern Bleeds, Bloom […]

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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, November 4-6, 2022

Another fifty-plus fresh additions to New Tracks Weekend roster, and most of them could legitimately be described as crucial. So let's describe, shall we? Our top two headliners couldn't be more different, but no less perfect for the difference: Sphere (pictured above) drops an exquisitely crafted LP to follow up 2011's Syvyys album, and it's the reunion you didn't know you were waiting for. Second headliner is the newer breakout […]

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New Tracks Weekend, September 9-11, 2022

Eighty tracks in all, sorted and rotation weighted for airplay. And it's not even a Bandcamp Friday. Our headliners should be obvious: both album covers display above. Cosmicdust's TACHYON is a brilliant return of near twenty-year veterans of the Japanese shoegaze scene, and they've ripped the rule book and rewritten it. Somwhere between Swirlies and MBV, this album is a perfect sweet spot between the most excellent output of both […]

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New Tracks Weekend, March 8-10

What an amazing week for new releases. Two albums of special note: Shady Bug's Lemon Lime (Shady Bug pictured above). Occupying a sweet spot between Jay Som's literate warmth and Sonic Youth's structural complexity, it's a compelling listen from end to end, with not a clunker in the bunch. In a first quarter of notable albums, this effort is surely in the top five releases thus far this year. The […]

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