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Elise at Indie Pop Rocks! on SomaFM

Indie Pop Rocks! on SomaFM

About Me


Hi, I'm Elise, and I'm the Music Director of Indie Pop Rocks! on SomaFM.

Indie Pop Rocks! features the lastest unsigned bands to the hottest new independent artists from around the globe, with a liberal sprinkling of classic and favorite indie tunes mixed in. With an enormous but carefully culled playlist, Indie Pop Rocks! plays your current and classic favorite artists, and will introduce you to your future favorites. From The Pixies and Built to Spill to Vampire Weekend and Band of Horses, these tracks are all winners. Indie Pop does indeed Rock.

- Indie Pop Rocks! playlist on Twitter


Listen to Indie Pop Rocks! via:

- iTunes radio: Alternative
- www.shoutcast.com
- www.somafm.com
- 48k aacPlus
- 128k mp3
- 24k mp3
- 3GPP phone
- Windows Media Player



My Interests

Indie rock, music, live shows, bands, artists, etc.

I'd like to meet:


We're always looking for great new indie rock bands and artists to play on the station. Signed, self-produced, unsigned, whatever - as long as you're good, that's all we care about. Indie Pop Rocks! is the largest indie station on the internet: with more listeners than most FM college stations, we're playing indie rock for the entire globe. And we want you.
Feel free to check out somafm.com for more information on Indie Pop Rocks! and SomaFM, as well as a mailing address to send demos to (on somafm.com/contact ).
And of course, you can always message me, or email me directly at elise at somafm dot com.

Music:

...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, +/- (Plus/Minus), 1986, 764-HERO, 4-man bob, A Girl Called Eddy, Actual Tigers, Ryan Adams, Aisler's Set, The Album Leaf, Alice Despard Group, Lisa Alice, All Girl Summer Fun Band, All Time Quarterback, Aloha, Aluminum Group, The American Analog Set, American Music Club, American Werewolf Academy, Amusement Parks On Fire, Mike Andrews, Animal Collective, Keren Ann, Antony & The Johnsons, Apostle of Hustle, The Apples in Stereo, The Appleseed Cast, Aqueduct, Arcade Fire, Archers Of Loaf, Architecture In Helsinki, Arctic Monkeys, Aroah, Astropop 3, Athlete, Au Revoir Simone, Ryan Auffenberg, August Anchor, Austin Newcomers, Avoidance Theory, Azure Ray, Badly Drawn Boy, Jason Bajada, Band of Horses, Devendra Banhart, Barenaked Ladies, Basement Apartment, The Bats, BC Camplight, Bears, The Beatifics, The Beatings, Howie Beck, Bedhead, Beezewax, Beirut, Belle And Sebastian, The Belles, Beta Band, Bettie Serveert, Between the Pine, Beulah, The Bikini Carwash Company, Andrew Bird, Birdmonster, The Bishop Invaders, Gus Black, The Black Heart Procession, The Black Lips, Blake Babies, Bloc Party, Blonde Redhead, Blood On The Tracks, BOAT, The Books, The Botticellis, Boy Least Likely To, Boyracer, Boys' Star Library, Boyskout, Brakes, Bright Eyes, Brightblack Morning Light, British Sea Power, Broadcast, Broken Social Scene, Brookville, The Brunettes, Jeff Buckley, Built By Snow, Built Like Alaska, Built To Spill, Burnside Project, Calexico, California Oranges, Call And Response, Call Florence Pow, Calla, Camera Obscura, Canoe, The Capitol Years, Carte Blanche, Casiotone (For the Painfully Alone), Cat Power, Celebration, Centro-Matic, Charades, Charmparticles, Chemistry Set, Chow Chow, Cinerama, Citizens Here and Abroad, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Classic Brown, Clearlake, The Clientele, Clinic, Cloud Cult, Cloud Room, Club 8, Clue To Kalo, The Coctails, Cocteau Twins, Cold War Kids, Jason Collett, The Color Bars, Columbus, Communique, The Concretes, Constantines, Contrail, Copeland, Cornelius, Cosigner, Benji Cossa, The Couriers, The Court & Spark, Creeper Lagoon, Crestview Trust, Rob Crow, Cursive, The Curtain Society, Danielson, The Davenports, Dealership, The Dears, Death Cab For Cutie, Death From Above 1979, Death Ships, The Deathray Davies, The Debutantes, The Decemberists, Decibully, The Decoration, Deerhoof, Deleted Scenes, The Delgados, DeVotchKa, Dinosaur Jr., Dios Malos, Dirtmitts, Dirty on Purpose, Dirty Three, Disinterested, Dismemberment Plan, Ditty Bops, Division Day, Do Make Say Think, The Dodos, The Doleful Lions, Dogs Die In Hot Cars, The Double, The Doves, Dressy Bessy, The Dudes, Dungen, The Duke Spirit, Dynah, Eagle Seagull, Earlimart, Early Day Miners, East River Pipe, The Ebb and Flow, The Editors, The Eels, Eighteenth Day Of May, Mark Eitzel, El Hijo, El Ten Eleven, Ela, Elbow, The Elected, Electrelane, Elefant, Elephants, Elephone, Elf Power, Engineers, Enon, Eulogies, The Evening, The Evening Episode, Every Move a Picture, Ex-Boyfriends, The Fall, Jay Farrar, Fairburn Royals, Feist, Field Mice, Field Music, The Fiery Furnaces, Film School, Finest Dearest, Neil Finn, Flake Music, The Flaming Lips, The Floor, Fojimoto, The Folk Implosion, Foma, Fortywatt, Fountains of Wayne, Four Fifty One, The Frames, Francine, Ad Frank & The Fast Easy Women, Robert Francis, Franz Ferdinand, The Frenchmen, Friends Like These, Frog Eyes, From Bubblegum To Sky, Edith Frost, Fruit Bats, The Futureheads, Gabardine, Galaxie 500, Gaze, Inara George, Georgie James, The Gerbils, Giant Drag, Giant Sand, Benjamin Gibbard, The Glasses, Go Sailor, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Gogogo Airheart, The Golden Dogs, Golden Seals, Holly Golightly, Jose Gonzalez, The Good Life, The Gothic Archies, Grandaddy, Great Lake Swimmers, Sonya Greta, The Guest Bedroom, Guided By Voices, The Gypsy Moths, The Hang Ups, Jeff Hanson, Daniel G.Harmann, Harry Hunks, Juliana Hatfield, Billy Harvey, PJ Harvey, The Hazzards, Imogen Heap, Heatmiser, The Heavenly States, Helio Sequence, Her Space Holiday, The Herms, Heroes & Villains, Kristin Hersh, Hexes and Ohs, Hidden Cameras, The High Strung, The Hold Steady, Holopaw, Hood, Hot Little Rocket, Housewife, Hanne Hukkelberg, Husker Du, Hypercycle, I Am Kloot, I Am Robot And Proud, IKO, I Love Math, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Idlewild, Ill Lit, Illinois, Ing, The Innocence Mission, Inouk, The iOs, Interpol, Invisible Cities, Iron and Wine, Irving, Islands, IV Thieves, Ivory Library, Ivy, The Jane Anchor, Jawbox, Jets To Brazil, Jets Overhead, Jim Yoshi Pile-Up, The Joggers, Freedy Johnston, Milo Jones, June of 44, June Panic, Junior Panthers, Damien Jurado, Karate, Kaiser Chiefs, Andrew Kenny, David Kilgour, Kind of Like Spitting, King of Prussia, Kings of Convenience, Kings Of Leon, Kingsbury Manx, Kiss Me Deadly, The Knife, The Kooks, Mark Kozelek, Lab Partners, Ladytron, Lahayna, Laika, Lambchop, Land of Talk, Dawn Landes, The Lashes, LD & The New Criticism, Lear, Jens Lekman, Lemon Sun, Sondre Lerche, Les Sans Culottes, Les Savy Fav, Lessick, Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins, Linus The Band, Lionheart Brothers, The Little Ones, Little Pink, The Living Blue, Lois, Long Division, Meric Long, The Long Winters, Loquat, Longwave, Loose Fur, Love Is All, Love Is Chemicals, Love Like Fire, Love Story, The Love X Nowhere, The Lovemakers, Low, Lowgold, The Lucksmiths, Lucy Bland, Luna, Lush, Maarten, David Macleod, Madelia, The Magic Numbers, Magnet, Magnetic Fields, Magneto, Magnolia Electric Co., Jeff Magnum, Mahoghany, The Main Frame, Stephen Malkmus (and the Jicks), Man Man, Barbara Manning, Milton Mapes, Augie March, Marigold, Maroons, Craig Marshall, Martian Memo To God, Marzipan, Masters of the Hemisphere, Mates of State, Matt Pond PA, Mazarin, Mazzy Star, Finian McKean, Rose Melberg, Mellowdrone, Metric, Mice Parade, Malcolm Middleton, Midlake, Midnight Movies, Military Junior, Takako Minekawa, Minipop, Minotaur Shock, Minus the Bear, Mission of Burma, Mist and Mast, Mittens, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Mojave 3, Monuments, The Morning Benders, The Morning Stars, Morningwood, The Mosquitos, The Most Serene Republic, The Mountain Goats, Mt. Egypt, Mudhoney, The Muffs, Alexi Murdoch, My Favorite, My Morning Jacket, Mystery Jets, Nada Surf, Name Followed By Number, The National, The Natural History, Nedelle, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Neutrinos, The New Amsterdams, New Buffalo, The New Fidelity, New Pornographers, The New Trust, The New Year, A. C. Newman, Joanna Newsom, n.Lannon, Nine Black Alps, No. 2, Noam Dagger, A Northern Chorus, The Notwist, Nous Nos Plus, Now It's Overhead, Jennifer O'Connor, Oceansize, The October, Of Montreal, Henning Ohlenbusch, Okkervil River, Olivia Tremor Control, On The Speakers, The Open, Oppenheimer, Oranger, Oranges Band, Orenda Fink, Otter Petter, Oxford Collapse, Paco, Palace / Bonnie Prince Billy, The Oxford Set, Palaxy Tracks, The Pale Pacific, Papas Fritas, The Paper Chase, Park Police, Brandon Patton, Pavement, Jack Peñate, Permanent Daylight, Perth, Persil, Liz Phair, The Pilot Light, Pinback, Pink Nasty, The Pinnipeds, The Pixies, The Plagiarists, Point Juncture WA, Polara, Pompeii, Pono, Pony Boy, Poole, Portastatic, The Posies, The Postal Service, The Postmarks, Sam Prekop, Prescott Curlywolf, Preston School Of Industry, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Private Eleanor, Project Ultra, The Prom, The Purrs, Keith Pyle, Quasi, The Quiet Company, Radar Bros., The Radio Dept., Rainer Maria, The Rakes, The Rapture, Ratatat, Razorlight, The Receiver, Red House Painters, Red Telephone, Red_Letter_Agent, Refree, Regia, The Reindeer Section, Rex, Rhesus, Rilo Kiley, The Rinse, Rogue Wave, Roman Candles, The Ropes, Josh Rouse, Rubyhorse, The Rum Diary, Sad Tropics, Saloon, The Sammies, Santa Dog, Say Hi To Your Mom, School For The Dead, Mark Schwaber, Scissors For Lefty, Scrabbel, The Sea and Cake, Seachange, Searay, Seam, Sebadoh, Sebastien Schuller, Seely, The Seldon Plan, Send For Help, Serene Lakes, She Sir, The Sheds, Shimmer Kids UnderPop Association, The Shins, Shipping News, Sholi, Shout Out Louds, Show Me State, Shrimp Boat, Sianspheric, The Sights, Silent Gray, Silverdrop, Silver Jews, Silver Sun, Silversun Pickups, Simple., Sing-Sing, The Skirts, Sleater-Kinney, Sloan, Slowreader, Elliott Smith, The Smiths, Snow Patrol, Snowden, Society of Rockets, The Softies, Some Action, Some Girls, Son, Ambulance, Sonic Youth, Sons & Daughters, Sorta, Sound Team, The Soundabout, South, Space Mtn, Spanish for 100, Sparrow House, The Spinanes, The Spinto Band, Spoon, Sputnik, Spy Island, The Standard, Starlight Drive, Starlight Mints, Stars, Stars Of Stage And Screen, Stereolab, Sufjan Stevens, The Stills, Kelley Stoltz, Ken Stringfellow, The Subways, The Sugarcubes, Sun Kil Moon, Sunny Day Real Estate, Super Furry Animals, Superchunk, Swell, Swervedriver, Swirlies, The Swords Project, Tahiti 80, The Talk, The Tall Boy, Tapes 'n Tapes, Tea For Julie, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Teenage Prayers, Tegan & Sara, Th' Faith Healers, Thirteen Senses, Rosie Thomas, Track A Tiger, Troubled Hubble, Three Mile Pilot, Throwing Muses, Tiger Trap, Tigerella, Tilly & the Wall, Katie Todd, Tortoise, Toshack Highway, Track Star, Trans Am , Trash Can Sinatras, Travis, Treepeople, Trembling Blue Stars, Tremulous Monk, Tullycraft, Tulsa Drone , TV on the Radio, The Twilight Sad, The Twin Atlas, Two Gallants, The Unicorns, Unisex, Vampire Weekend, John Vanderslice, Chad VanGaalen, Veda, Tom Vek, Velocity Girl, The Velvet Teen, Venus Hum, Versus, Vervein, Vetiver, Via Audio, Victory at Sea, The Vinyl Skyway, Vitamin-D, Voxtrot, The Walkmen, Walt Mink, The Wannadies, The Washdown, We Are Scientists, Weakerthans, The Wedding Present, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Whiskeytown, White Light Riot, The White Stripes, White Whale, The Whitsundays, Whysall Lane, Wilco, Willoughby, Winechuggers, Wolf Parade, Wormburner, The Wrens, Yellow Fever, Yo La Tengo, Thom Yorke, You Am I, Youth Group, The Zephyrs, z!4k45 (Ziakas), The Zim-Zims, ZOX, and more.

My Blog

elises top 50 indie releases of 2007

sorry it took me so long to put this together this year. i re-ordered this list a million times, and i'm still not completely satisfied... but every release on this list is really bloody good.elise's...
Posted by Elise at Indie Pop Rocks! on SomaFM on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:25:00 PST

Best Satellite/Online Radio DJ!

Thanks so much to everyone for voting for me, last night the San Francisco Bay Guardian awarded me "Best Satellite/Online Radio DJ!"yay! :)
Posted by Elise at Indie Pop Rocks! on SomaFM on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:36:00 PST

VOTE FOR THE BEST DJs OF THE BAY!

Please vote for me as best Internet DJ in San Francisco!  Just send an email to [email protected] with a subject line of BEST DJS 2007, and say you're voting for Elise from SomaFM for Best Internet...
Posted by Elise at Indie Pop Rocks! on SomaFM on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:47:00 PST

Vote for SomaFM!

SomaFM is up for a PLUG Award again this year (Online Radio Station of theYear). Please go vote for us!http://plugawards.com/general_vote.phpyay!...
Posted by Elise at Indie Pop Rocks! on SomaFM on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:28:00 PST

Press Release: Webcasters Stand Firm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:Webcasters Stand FirmDeal With Us In Good Faith or No Deal!Wednesday, September 19, 2007 SAN FRANCISCO, CA. Thousands of webcasters stand firm by rejecting the most recent Copyr...
Posted by Elise at Indie Pop Rocks! on SomaFM on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:13:00 PST

SomaFM calls on Congress to insist that the RIAA come to a settlement on royalty rates with web

SomaFM is calling on internet radio listeners to call their congressional representatives and ask them to tell the RIAA to make a reasonable public settlement with webcasters before July 15th, and pro...
Posted by Elise at Indie Pop Rocks! on SomaFM on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:03:00 PST

Important upcoming events and shows!

I'm doing a bunch of cool stuff coming up in the next two weeks. I hope you can make it out to one or more of them!Thursday June 28th7:15 - 8:15pmInnovation Salon II : Guitar Heroes- How are Bay Area...
Posted by Elise at Indie Pop Rocks! on SomaFM on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:44:00 PST

my new day job

I just started a new day job, as rightround as officially come to a close.   (So sad!!)  But it's okay, I found a really awesome new job at IODA (which stands for Indepedent Online Dist...
Posted by Elise at Indie Pop Rocks! on SomaFM on Thu, 24 May 2007 04:47:00 PST

Act now to save internet radio!

Almost all internet radio is going to have to shut down now because the CRB wouldn't give anyone a rehearing. The first payments are due May 15th, and they're retroactive to January of 2006, which me...
Posted by Elise at Indie Pop Rocks! on SomaFM on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:36:00 PST

And, so, sometimes the music industry sucks

So, just in case it wasn't enough to find out this morning that some fucking asshole kid in Virginia decided that when it was his time to go out, he had to take out at least 32 other people with him.....
Posted by Elise at Indie Pop Rocks! on SomaFM on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:51:00 PST