About: Max Jacobs

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Max Jacobs is a music writer, radio reporter, producer, and DJ. When not obsessing about music, he can be found walking his hound dog through the streets of San Francisco.

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Cults
Cults

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By  |  May 30th, 2011
Filed under: indie pop, lo-fi, beach house

Sounds like: Tennis, AB & the Sea, Dum Dum Girls

My, how music has changed! I remember hearing my parents talk about the buzz right before The Beatles would release a new album: “What will they do this time? How…keep reading →


The Raveonettes
Raven in the Grave

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By  |  April 5th, 2011
Filed under: indie pop, surf rock, best coast

Sounds like: Club 8, Dum Dum Girls, Cults

Given the crazy influx of surf rock inspired bands lately (Surfer Blood, Dum Dum Girls, Best Coast, Tennis), it can be easy to forget that the Danish duo The Raveonettes…keep reading →


Lykke Li
Silent My Song

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By  |  March 25th, 2011
Filed under: lykke li, zola jesus, jj

Sounds like: El Perro Del Mar, Mirah, Peter Bjorn and John

Here at Indie Shuffle, we’ve already previewed a couple songs off Lykke’s second album Wounded Rhymes. Despite the fact that album only has ten songs, the two tracks we’ve featured…keep reading →


Death Cab For Cutie
The Photo Album

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By  |  March 2nd, 2011
Filed under: folk, death cab for cutie, the postal service

Sounds like: Death Cab For Cutie, The Postal Service, The Elected, Rilo Kiley

I started last week with grand and ambitious plans to see ten Noise Pop shows and run myself into the ground from pure blissful musical exhaustion. Well the exhaustion part…keep reading →


Five Bands You Shouldn't Miss
Noise Pop 2011

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By  |  February 22nd, 2011
Filed under: indie rock, indie pop, best coast

What's so good?

Finally, my type of music festival comes around again: Noise Pop! The type of festival that’s not even really a music festival as we would normally think of it, but a series…keep reading →


The Megaphonic Thrift
Decay Decoy

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By  |  February 18th, 2011
Filed under: shoegaze, garage, post-punk

Sounds like: Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, The Pixies, Yuck

On the eve of recording this first full-length album, Norweigan band the Megaphonic Thrift lost all of their instruments in a fire. I’m not sure how most other rock bands…keep reading →


Akron/Family
S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT

By  |  February 10th, 2011
Filed under: folk, folk-rock, psychedelic

Sounds like: Blitzen Trapper, Grandaddy, Yes, Admiral Radley

Really truly listening to an album can be difficult task to undertake. Do you play it repeatedly for a week straight? Only listen in the car? Skip tracks constantly? Pick…keep reading →


Francis and the Lights
It'll Be Better

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By  |  February 3rd, 2011
Filed under: pop, 80s, holy ghost!

Sounds like: Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, The Tom Tom Club

When I first picked up the album It’ll Be Better from Francis & The Lights to review for my radio station, I gave it the “I’m not sure we should…keep reading →



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