Not sure how it happened, but on a relatively nondescript weekend in August, a torrent of great new shoegaze and dream pop was unleashed on an unsuspecting populace (including us). We're a little tardy in compiling it all due to sheer volume. But that won't stop us celebrating the fantastic efforts of these artists. Headliners this weekend include biatlón (premiered on Krissy's Drowned in a Sea of Sound), Looprider, chokecherry, […]
First full weekend of summer, and wouldn't have thought we'd be overpacked for new music, but... here we are. This weekend we're celebrating some outstanding new releases, including those that dance at the outer edges of our beloved genres, but are landmark nonetheless. So we won't ignore them, we'll celebrate the achievement(s). Our two biggest outliers are both compelling works best taken as an unified whole (which we can't do […]
A new weekend, and a new raft of fresh tracks for your consideration is breaking through. Headliners this weekend, most won't surprise: Sungaze, Fragile Animals, Winter, Deary, The Virginia Planes, Welcome Strawberry, Copperplate (to name just a few). But we're also celebrating the triumphant return of The Giraffe Told Me in My Dream (pictured above) after an extended recording hiatus. It's a stellar release. A few other stellar releases that […]
Another impressive haul of new sounds for your ears this weekend! Headliners include Winter & Hooky (not that Hooky, a different one), softsurf, Crate, Daydream Twins, Mumrunner, Always Other, Drop Nineteens (pictured above), sadplanet, The Ophelias, copperplate, Pinky Lemon, and Callière. That's plenty for any given weekend, but there's so much more to celebrate, including new sounds from aeonatan, Pale Rider, AIMING, Uztar, Asian Glow, Emerald Comets, Darko's Aufhebung, ephemerons, […]
The deadline draws near, and there's so much new music to celebrate. And with so many bad takes on the collapse of Pitchfork as a going concern, we'll do what we always do: focus on the music. We're thrilled to spin up new sounds from Secrets of the Third Planet, Bad Bloom, Flowerbomb, Sleep Keeper, My Sister Maura (pictured above), Swimming Pool, Winter, Anilore, and Swiss Portrait (last year's release, […]
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 […]
On time, almost on budget, we've landed a brand new edition of New Tracks Weekend, chock full of fresh and breaking sounds. Headliners include Daydream Twins, Black Nite Crash, SUIR, and Winter (pictured above, credit: Athena Merry), each of which unlocked a new album to compete with The Stargazer Lilies' buzziness (interview here). But hoo boy do we have more than that. Fresh sounds from Seasurfer, Virgins, Callière & Tears […]
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 […]
91 total new tracks injected into NTW rotation, all sorted and weighted for maximal impact. Three days of show prep, I think we're good! We're celebrating mostly new releases, though we're also featuring one we'd overlooked from late Spring (Gentle Heat), and two from... eight years ago? That'd be Blue Smiley, and Everything Fades, and we were this many weeks old when we'd first heard of 'em. Oversight corrected, and […]
