Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a Piñata Attack!

Move beyond La Bamba at your Cinco de Mayo fiesta this year. Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band (Latin Grammy winners and Emmy Award nominees!) will have you shaking a tailfeather with their brand-new surf rock anthem Piñata Attack. It's the first release from their upcoming bilingual album, Adelante, due out this summer. Until it arrives, check out their back catalog and super fun iPad apps.

Polyphonic Spree: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

I'm normally pretty Scrooge-like when it comes to holiday music (I blame working at Waterloo during the Christmas that Jingle Cats was popular. Shudder.) but it's hard not to get into the spirit when you stuff the cult-like horde of the Polyphonic Spree into the offices of NPR music for some caroling.

Happy Holidays to you and yours.

Hopefully 2013 will be a safe and peaceful year.

Elliott Smith: The Indie Years

Wow, wow, wow.

Kill Rock Stars has compiled each of their Elliott Smith releases into one handy downloadable "digital box set."

Stream all 74 tracks of Elliott Smith: The Indie Years here now:


Man, I miss that guy.

Support Indie Rock in Style

Almost everyone loves music but folks often overlook the everyday financial challenges that independent artists, record companies and record stores deal with to keep it playing. Share Shirts were created by Iris Distribution to raise awareness of the importance of buying music from independent artists. 

Made especially for the wee progeny of indie music lovers, Share Shirts are available in sizes from newborn onesies to youth medium and feature an adorable illustration by S. Britt. Tees are available individually or bundled with one or both of two digital downloads: Kimya Dawson's Alphabutt and Planet Music's Kids Songs.

Individual Share Shirts are $14.99, bundles are $22.99 for shirt + 1 album and $28.99 for shirt + both albums. Half of the proceeds go to the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM).

Having managed indie bands, put out indie singles and worked in indie record stores, this is something that I think is pretty cool. Roo loves her Share Shirt… I wish they came in my size!

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In accordance to the FTC Guidelines and WOMMA Code of Ethics, I am disclosing that we received a tee to facilitate this review but all opinions are strictly my own.