Is there a recipe for a good song? Is there a recipe for a good album? Perfection may not exist, but good songs and good albums exist after a formula. But forget good albums and good songs. Forget them, because artistic...

Over the past year or two we've featured Vancouver band, Said the Whale here on the Daily Dose and finally ran across their newer track 'Camilo', which was included in their October 2009 album entitled...

Stuart Morrison and the Insomnia Radio Team restart the show with a new format. Direct Submissions, Archive from The Vault, a Daily Dose feature, Regional Roundup, news, a spotlight on Philadelphia, and more. Welcome to...

Zechs Marquise, the El Paso, TX quintet are back with their sophomore album Getting Paid, bringing an intensified swagger to the band’s multifaceted psych-prog haze for their most aggressive and versatile effort to...

The Team Me EP is the first official release of the Norwegian band of the same name, consisting of five songs recorded in Oslo and produced and mixed by by Tom McFall (REM, Bloc Party, Snow Patrol). The EP, released on...

Immersed in the ever-changing currents of Portland, Oregon’s music scene, John Craig & The Weekend’s newest release, Numbers, arrives as a breath of fresh air – something worlds apart from anything you’ve...

Mouth of a Fox is from the double single release from Los Angeles’ POLLS, released on May 24th of this year via Jaxart Records. You can also visit their Facebook page for a link to the RootsMusic player which has...

This is a single from their album Aokigahara, released on Errant Child Records on August 30th, 2011. The Nocturnes are the folkgaze brainchild of guitarist/vocalist Emma Ruth Rundle. While the band began as a duo in 2007...

Cool and Collected, the track featured today, made me feel like São Miguel island, in the Azores, was actually the best place one could live. The Delta Routine is a Milwaukee-based band committed to the project of...

Guards was formed in New York City when Richie James Follin returned from a European tour to a recording studio with nothing in it but a broken electric 12 string guitar and an omnichord. He wrote and recorded a few songs...

Brooklyn, NY frenetic power-duo Noxious Foxes announce the release of their sophomore album, Légs. Noxious Foxes began in 2009 in Thump Studios, a Brooklyn recording studio owned by Levengood. Songs were written in live...

Armand Margjeka was born in Tropoja, an Albanian town at the foot of the Alps. “Tropoja was one of the most isolated villages in an isolated country,” Margjeka says. The communist regime he grew up with was...

From their new album Live at Sint-Elisabethkerk, released on Western Vinyl. “Though Balmorhea’s studio recordings never fail to impress, their songs have always been most powerful and affecting when performed...

Despite its title, Only Good Thoughts Can Stay is not an anthem for blind faith in simple pleasures. Pairing sometimes dark lyrical matter with uptempo major-chord progressions, the newest album from Portland, Oregon’s...

British electronic-infused post-rock faves 65Daysofstatic announce the North American release of their latest album We Were Exploding Anyway in a special deluxe edition that also features the recent Heavy Sky EP....