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Your favourite elctro duo are back in town. Sensual Harassment have released their second e.p. At last. Sensual Harassment seem to wistfully draw upon popular music of the past as a way forward – whether it be the...

Since 2007 American Babies has been the mouthpiece for Philadelphia based musician Tom Hamilton. After spending the early 2000s building a national fan base fronting the electro-rock band Brothers Past, releasing two...

Awning is the Brooklyn folktronica duo of Jon Sheldrick and Luke Smith, who initially met while studying music at NYU. They both are apparently classically trained musicians who have experimented with a variety of...

While the forecast for Brooklyn might call for rain and a 20% chance of getting stung by ice pellets, in the not so distance past the metropolis was covered with snow.  This was likely around the time these two great...

Black Bird White Sky are an electronica-rock duo that combines driving glitchy dance beats and soaring vocal melodies with the dark, complex backdrop of catchy synth hooks and guitar riffs. Their latest release, The...

City Brat, a world electro indie duo from Bushwick, Brooklyn. The band consists of Jason Grad (Vocals, Guitars, Synths) and Alex Fippinger (Drums). Mixing different music genres, and influenced by various world musical...

Goodbye, Labrador, with roots in Brooklyn, Barcelona and Prague, blend stateside harmonies with distinctly European nostalgia. A Thousand Times Before, their second record, is a dreamy, guitar-driven collection of...

Cultfever, made up of Tamara Jafar and Joe Durniak, released their debut, self-titled and produced album in November 2011. This song is from that album, as is the first single Knewyouwell, the video for which is below,...

If you don’t like the defination of dreamrock, take Candidate as a superawsome rock make out party. Based in Brooklyn, they have self released this month Psychic Dissonance From The Unself Audio clip: Adobe Flash...

Brooklyn-based band Apollo Run (John McGrew, Jeff Kerestes, Graham Fisk) just released their full-length debut album, Here Be Dragons, Vol III on September 25, 2012. Bending the Light is taken from it. Another track The...

TKTTSM is the Brooklyn-based psychedelic rock duo comprised of Johanna Stahley and Owen O’Mahony. They are focusing on getting the word out about their debut self-titled album, which will be released on October...

Modern Rivals are five friends who have been playing music together since middle school, and whom recently self-released the Sea Legs EP – a promising introduction to their sound. The Sea Legs EP was recorded and...

Grand Resort is the project of a 20-year old native of the Dominican Republic named Andrés Pichardo, now resident in Brooklyn. Despite the gloomy title of his single Night is Dark, it is uplifting guitar-driven...

The dancefloor heroes Sensual Harassment got their hands on Strangers and turned the anthem Shine On You into a a unforgettable song. Two things unusual today for your Daily Dose: 1st we’re featuring a version of a...

One of our favourite labels, Western Vinyl has recently added today’s band Lymbyc Systym to its roster, and is releasing their album Symbolyst in September. The band will tour with Zammuto (Nick Zammuto of The...

“Railbird is the indie band who everyone in the know has predicted will blow up in a major way since their self-released debut, No One, first hit the streets. This Brooklyn-based musical collective features a...

Brooklyn based roots rocker Bryan Dunn weaves tales of romance, murder mystery, ghost stories and late night drinking with catchy hooks and clever wordplay. A true storyteller, his mix of Texas Twang, Irish folk, and New...

What’s this unexpected package you may ask? Today brings the 181st full length episode of Insomnia Radio, with a tribute to the promotional wonders of Boston’s MJ Epstein Memorial Library as our...

North Highlands—the place, not the band—is, as Brenda Malvini puts it, “a gnarly suburb trapped in time. It sounds like a beautiful name but it’s not a beautiful place.” Located just outside of Sacramento, North...

The Can’t Tells are a band, embrace brevity with concisely written whatever in hopes of being listened to by you and are loud. That’s how they introduce themselves. We will add that they are from Brooklyn and...

The Brooklyn quintet formed from a long bubbling friendship between bassist Jay Goodman, drummer Alex Beckmann, and lead singer/composer Grayson Sanders. Many parties, road trips, and treacherous leaky basements fraught...

Brooklyn trio Bear in Heaven take me directly back a few decades to the 80s on this track and basically provide the soundtrack to watching the world wondrously unfold in grade school. It could easily top any playlist of...

Combining fuzzed out pop melodies with the distorted punk attitude of late 1970s New York, Brooklyn’s Beast Make Bomb craft songs informed by twenty-something college life in urban grit. Powerful yet tastefully...

As Austin, TX emerges from the dark rubbing its bloodshot eyes and blistered feet today, artist Dana Buoy moves on to Houston to play more shows on his trip back east before his debut album, Summer Bodies, is released...

Brooklyn’s backwords will release their album By The Neck on March 6, 2012. By the Neck was recorded and produced in the band’s homespun basement studio, Campers’ Rule Records in Brooklyn, NY. With an...

Clinton Hill, Brooklyn four-piece Palomar have returned with a gripping new batch of excellent tracks laced with gorgeous female fronted vocals. Their new album jumps out of the gates this January 24th with the leadoff...

Following two critically acclaimed EPs, Brooklyn based band Farewell Republic will release their debut LP, Burn the Boats, on February 21, 2012. After a year-long writing/pre-production process, Burn the Boats was...

Though they are from Cleveland and Seattle, The Fools are a Brooklyn based musical duo by  Jen Tobin (vocals, guitar) and Uchenna Bright (bass). They have been described as sit back and float folk and a foot massage for...

From NYC, Fan-Tan are currently putting the final touches to their forthcoming debut LP, entitled A Strange Game slated for a March release. Recently they released the album’s first single 1989. Audio clip: Adobe...

New York’s Apollo Run released their sophomore EP, Here Be Dragons, Volume 2 a few months ago. “With a sound that straddles classic Queen, Muse, and Electric Light Orchestra, this harmony-driven power trio is best...

Firehorse is the new project from singer/songwriter/instrumentalist Leah Siegel who recently released the eclectic debut, And so they ran faster… via PledgeMusic Recordings on both vinyl and CD. Produced by Geoff...