• Jack White delivered a single from his upcoming solo disc earlier in the month, and now we have a single from Sir Tom Jones (you heard me) produced by Jack - its a cover of Howlin' Wolfs evil and its a house rocker.
• We have found a couple of tunes from the new Chris Thile led super group, Punch Brothers, we will be throwing in the mix.
• After a well received ep in 2010, Wild Nothing return with a single worthy of both sides being spun (listen for the a-side "Nowhere" featuring Twin Sister and its flip, "Wait").
• After being teased with a single right around the holidays, Gary Lightbody and his band Snow Patrol deliver the full Fallen Empires and we go with the very 80's inspired title track.
• February arrives flush with catchy new songs from Chairlift, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Porcelain Raft, Hospitality, Jack White, Girl In A Coma, Joe Fletcher, Delta Spirit, Cursive, and Andrew Bird.

January

• We start the new year with fresh tunes from folks like Lyle Lovett (with big horns), Sharon Van Etten, The Gift, Gary Numan, and The Shins. We also dig deeper into some late 2011 releases from The Black Keys, Kitty, Davis & Lewis, and Feist. Welcome to 2012!

December

• We roll out some brand new music, custom designed for the season (that's Christmas music y'all!). Seriously, we won't drive you crazy with repeats of the same ole same ole, and we have fresh seasonal sounds already in the mix from Keb Mo, She & Him, Lyle Lovett, Jack Johnson, Rogue Wave, Jamie Cullum, Teddy Thompson & Rufus Wainwright, and more.

November

• Chris Issak is back with Beyond The Sun, a tip of his hat to his childhood heroes like Elvis, Johnny, and Jerry, and folks that stood in the ledgendary Sun recording studio.
• Band Of Bees returns with a new American record label behind them and a nice set called Every Steps A Yes.
• JC Brooks and The Uptown Sound bring the funk.
• Favourite Sons - 4 Americans lead by an Irishman, and lyrically so damn on (They Call Me Coco Rushdie is our "best new song ever...this week" for the wk of the 14th).
• We dip into the expansive Radiohead remix collection.
• We were so happy to see a new Joe Henry disc arrive in the mail and have 4 tracks already rotating.

October

• Southerly delivers his third effort and we dive in with "Do We Believe" (Coldplay wishes they had written the piano line). 
• We introduce you to Canon Blue - riyl Beirut and Sufjan Stevens.
• Bright Eyes covers The White Stripes with "We're Gonna Be Friends".
• We get a new song from Potishead in the form of an Amnesty Intl benefit single called "Chasing The Tear".
• Ryan Adams makes it 3 of a perfect pair (Wilco and Jayhawks being the other 2) with his very focused Ashes & Fire release.
• We get another taste of the next Tom Waits disc - a BALLAD no less (and harkens back to his Asylum years).
• Finally got some time to dig into the Pearl Jam 20 set for a song (Crown Of Thorns) that dates back to Mother Love Bone.
• Some truly wonderous earcandy hitting our library from new bands like Gauntlet Hair, Pang Attack, Veronica Falls, and Light FM.
• Tom Morello speaks up with an on-the-spot commentary that is "Union Song"
• We get another taste of the upcoming Florence + The Machine with "Shake It Out"
• Wilco, full disc out now...nuff said. 
• Jayhawks, a disc that is equally as good as the new Wilco, and that's saying a lot!

September

• Another fabulous week brings us new songs from Kathleen Edwards, The Drums, The Fruit Bats, and Exitmusic.
• Alt country wunderkind Ryan Adams lets us have the first song from his next full length, Ashes & Fire, and its a sweet one called "Lucky Now".
• Thomas Dolby makes a fine return with A Map Of The Floating City, and we start with the single, "The Spice Train".
• Tony Bennet belting out "Speak Low" with Norah something, or "Body & Soul" with the late Amy Winehouse (her last recorded session)...he's 85 and listen to that voice!
• Full cd's that we can't find any filler on from the likes of My Morning Jacket, Gomez, and Blitzen Trapper.
• We didn't immediately unwrap the new Red Hot Chili Peppers disc, but were pleasantly  surprised when we did. We are spinning "Monarchy Of Roses", but there will be more...soon.
• For fans of Das Racist (who we are known to play now and again), listen for a new single from Wallpaper called "Stupid Facedd".

August

• Late August brings "Called Out In The Dark", a new single from Snow Patrol.
• Stephen Malkmus, fresh off a wildly successful PAVEMENT reunion, has a new disc on the way with his side project, The Jicks, and we have the first single from that called "Tigers" (one of the shortest new songs to cross the desk here in quite some time).
• We play catch up with the band Hello Echo, and pick up their new single called "Birdbeat"
• We played Hurricane from Grace Jones last year as an import, but its now out domestically, and we add another song in the mix from the new American version called " Williams Blood".
• August begins with a good influx of real creative sounding music from bands like The War On Drugs, Tame Impala, and The Horrors.
• Mike Doughty is back and in hooky lyric mode with his new disc Yes And Also Yes (is that a nod to Archer?) and songs like "Into The Un" and "Na Na Nothing".
• We can't stop playing The War On Drugs, The Horrors, and Tame Impala, so expect to hear them a lot.
• It took some time, but we found a song on the new Joseph Arthur that reminded us why Peter Gabriel likes him so much.
• After starting them on our Sunday Morning Americana show, we move The Head And The Heart into regular rotation with the first 2 songs on the disc melded into 1 (cuz it really sounds like they should be anyway).

July

• We love when a new Thievery Corporation drops in the mailbox, so listen for some chilled out grooves in the form of the instrumental opener "Web Of Deception" and the title cut, "Culture Of Fear".
• We get a taste of Bjork's next (ambitious) work called Biophilia via a tune called "Crystalline" (love the way it ends).
• We dig deeper into some new releases from Fountains Of Wayne, Liam Finn, and The Vaccines.
• Hot on the heels of one of our fave alt-country acts (WILCO) releasing a new song, The Jayhawks are back a preview of their next full length with "She Walks In So Many Ways".
• More Arctic Monkeys please (yes!).
• Best Coast, and a new song released as part of the Adult Swim Singles Series.
• We finally tracked down the new Peter Murphy disc, Ninth and load up 3 songs that immediately needed to go on. 
• The new (official) Coldplay single is a little too sugary for us, but we love the track "Major Minus". Viva!
• Wilco, and the A side of their first single on their own label, a fun one called "I Might" 

June

We have found a track deep in the new Ben Harper disc we like called "Dirty Little Lover", featuring some of that trademark Harper blues slide.

• Death Cab's new disc is in the library and we're exploring it (first 2 tracks definitely on!).
• One of the most groove heavy discs to arrive in our mailbox now getting major spins from Booker T Jones, with songs featuring vocals from Lou Reed, Sharon Jones, and Matt Berninger.
• Sondre Lerche is back and playing the hook heavy card again on "Private Caller" from his forthcoming, self titled disc (which you can stream over on our fb page).
• Powering up more Beastie Boys - 3 to be exact - off Hot Sauce Committee 2 (including one with Santigold).
• The Kills Blood Pressures has been living in the cd player and we add 3 more from it too.

May

• Our fave new song is from The Vaccines, a short romp called "Post Break-Up Sex".
• Black Lips new song, less than 2 minutes long, but catchy from second number 1 (oh, its called Modern Art).
• We pull another track off Jessica Lea Mayfield's disc (grows on us more with every play, and produced by Dan from Black Keys).
• We actually found a track we like on the new Foo Fighters (recorded in Dave G's garage).
• Just discovered the freak folk outfit The
• Donkeys and send the first 2 tracks from the disc into rotation.
• Art Brut return with a new disc produced by Frank Black (!!) and we have the first song available, "Lost Weekend".
• Danger Mouse releases another side project (with Italian film score guy Daniel Luppe) under the marquee ROME, and we have songs that feature Norah Jones and Jack Black on vocals.

 April

• We get 2 more songs from RADIOHEAD via a 12'' single they released for record store day, Supercollider and The Butcher.
• Good to see the ELBOW finally released domestically (nice job Downtown). We load 3 fresh ones after spinning the import of Lippy Kids for a coupla months.
• Barely keeping up with the new tunes at our avail - new Beastie Boys, Okkervil River, Memphis, Jason Isbell, Those Darlins, and Arctic Monkeys all spinning on the Indie. 
• Listen for deep tracks from TV On The Radio (full just came out), Local Natives, and Middle Brother (borrowing from the Mats), and a second Fleet Foxes song.
• We roll into April with tastes of forthcoming discs from  Death Cab For Cutie, Gomez, and Vetiver.
• We're late to the party on these, but The Joy Formidable and Wye Oak have us wowed.
• The new Devotchka is getting a bunch of spins here (and they are from Colorado after all).
• k.d. lang, back with a solid effort, from start to finish (we found 4 songs that will remind you why you are a kd lang fan).
• We rotate in more from the new Social Distortion, Bruce Cockburn, and Men.
• The Mountain Goats, and their ode to all these goddamn vampires (oh, and a nod to Charles Bronson too).

March

• March came in strong and gets ready to leave on a similar note with new songs from Death Cab For Cutie, Gomez, and Vetiver.
• Tastes of upcoming discs from The Kills, Manchester Orchestra, Wild Beasts (one of the head instigators fave bands),and UNKLE (with Nick Cave on vocals !!).
• Deep cuts from PJ Harveys most recent (her best and most consistent in years, sez head instigator).
• We get another tune from The Cars reunion disc, "Sad Song".
• Finally getting some of the Lucinda William's latest on the station (a nice vibe on this set called Blessed).
• A new song from The Radio Dept (from a singles collection, so a new song with a best-of set wrapped around it).
• Odd find (and like) of the month - Ezra Furman & The Harpoons.
• March begins with a bumper crop of new tunes from Indie faves like Buffalo Tom, Sloan, Cage The Elephant, TV On The Radio, Richard Ashcroft, Bell X1, Airborne Toxic Event and OMD. 
• Cuz we know there is more that just the "single" we go deeper into newer discs from Bright Eyes, Smith Westerns, and The Dears.

February

• Radiohead, Radiohead, and more Radiohead (web) released King Of Limbs.
• Moby released a 3 song ep as a sampler for his next long player, and we are playing cut #2 from that, "Sevastopol", custom made for the chill out room.
• The Cars! yep, you read that right. "Blue Tip" is the teaser, with a full disc coming soon, their first in 20+ years.
• We continue to freshen up the new music shelf with new cd's and songs from Peter, Bjorn, and John, The Feelies (!!), Dolorean (such a mellow vibe), Robbie Robertson (sound harkens back to his solo debut), and Middle Brother.
• We go deeper into the new Bright Eyes for "Haile Salassie" along with another David Gray tune,"Only The Wine".

January

• We head into February with new music from the likes of Flogging Molly, Wanda Jackson, Raphael Saadiq, Noah & The Whale, Glasvegas, Foster The People, Social Distortion, and much more.
• Cake, and more Cake. Finally, our copy of Showroom Of Compassion showed up and we are loving tunes like "Federal Funding" and "Mustache Man".
• Jack White introduces Wanda Jackson to a whole new generation (or 2) on  The Party Ain't Over , and we are lovin' the big band twist of Dylans "Thunder On The Mtn" along with "Rip It Up" (oh, and look up her performance on Conan).
• The Veils, one of our faves from last year, return with an ep of new songs and we jump in with "Bloom" and "The Stars..."
• Boxer Rebellion offers up "Step Out Of The Car",  the first song from a disc that should break em here in the states
• The Forms hook up with The Nationals front man for a fine new single "Fire To The Ground"
• Towering red head Brett Dennen is back with a new song called "Sydney" (you'll be singing this one)
• We pull more songs off new discs from Gang Of Four, Decemberists, and Ryan Adams
• We begin a new year with new songs from some of our faves including a new ELBOW song, "Lippy Kids", along with a just released Bright Eyes tune, "Shell Games".
• "Phoner From Arizona" is a track from the Gorillaz nearly free release The Fall, recorded on an iPad while on tour last year (go to their website to download).
• We pick up some tracks from Midlake's John Grant off his fine solo disc Queen Of Denmark (one we overlooked in 2010).

New Music mid-end Dec

• The amount of new releases starts to trickle to near nothing this time of year, but we did find a new single from, of all people, David Lynch. Listen for the very electropop-influenced "Good Day Today" along with "I Know" (think Fire Walk With Me).
• We get early tastes of new discs due in January from G Love (Fixin To Die w/ Avetts), Iron & Wine (Walking Far From Home), Gang Of Four (Never Pay For The Farm), White Lies (Bigger Than Us), and Cold War Kids (Louder Than Ever). Of course, you'll hear them first here on the mighty Indie.
• We love being the first to play new artists and have them in abundance - listen for The Drums, Matt & Kim, Men, John Francis, Dylan LeBlanc, and The Smith Westerns.
• The first song from the next Decemberists disc is here, "Down By The Water", and features Gillian Welch. CD will hit January 18th The King Is Dead

New Music Mid Nov - Early Dec

• One of our fave releases of this year gets BETTER in an expanded format - The Nationals High Violet - and we start spinning the new version of "Terrible Love" right off.
• Brian Eno (!!) Two new songs from Small Craft on a Milk Sea (think Nerve Net 2)

Check out what was new during 2010.