Cynthia Lin is a singer, songwriter, vocal coach, and ukulele teacher based in San Francisco who released this featured single last year on December 31, appropriately titled ‘What Are You Doing New Year’s...

Cotton Mather‘s “Cotton Mather with Nicole Atkins” EP (The Star Apple Kingdom) is out Dec. 30th, 2016. This is part of Austin Texas based Cotton Mather’s project of 64 mini-pop masterpieces, one for each...

The solo creative output of Ontario, Canadian artist Daniel X. Belasco, Glass Apple Bonzai has self-released two albums of 80s sounding synthwave and synthpop, won Album of the Year and Electronic Dance Music Artist of the...

Comrade Catbox, from Saint Louis, MO, started as a guitar two piece and have spent the past year writing and practicing with a full 4-piece band. They recently released their first song Saul, and Baroque Acquaintances is...

Chris Pendergraft, a musician from the Bay area recently wrote and released a songs for those who fell victim to the tragic fire in Oakland a few short weeks back. Before the end of the year was up, we wanted to feature his...

Corner Suns teams up with Sarah Jaffe for new single “The Rattle In The Room,” taken from Dallas-based band’s upcoming debut LP, out Jan. 13th. First aspiring to sound like Sabbath, duo of John Dufilho (The Apples...

Skyline Advantage are an alt-Pop outfit from the Isle of Man, their debut “The Songs About Stuff EP” is out now on Small Bear Records, on CD Cassette and download from BandCamp. They were also included on...

Since I spent every single Christmas in Texas as my relatives all lived in that state, I thought it would be nice to feature a semi-related regionally titled track from the compilation, “Hey, It’s...

Happy Christmas (or Bah Humbug) from the UK’s The Joy Formidable. This is their 2009 Christmas single, so good we had to post it again. WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | TWITTER |...

Your favorite Houston, Texas boy band DEEP CUTS has returned with a dose of frothy holiday cheer, Comatose Come Christmas, their Xmas jingle and a solid entry into the year-end music gifting and regifting spree. In...

Cool Hats Music proudly presents Grammy Nominee NITA NIELSEN and the Christmas song One World Together. NITA NIELSEN is a pop/rock/world/jazz artist from Denmark. A woman of many talents – singer, composer,...

Blackwatch Studios & Fowler VW of Norman Oklahoma are back with their exceptional 6th Annual Holiday Compilation! They hope you download the album for free and are welcoming any donations! 100% of these donations go to...

“You know you’ve been Scrooged” sings Mark Handley here on what might well be his very own “Christmas Carol”… “it’s the birth of our Lord at the price you can afford” and indeed, at times it...

Episode number 167 of Insomnia Radio: UK Ro at the controls again. Seven tracks from UK Artists, and a surprise mystery guest artist from Italy. Release Date: Sunday 18th December 2016 TRT: 53:40 Rating: Work...

Scottish five-piece Vigo Thieves made a welcome return in late October with the release of their debut album Heartbeats, officially out now via Hijacked Records. Heartbeats delivers an explosion of sound from the offset....

Fifteen Times the Moon is an outstanding collection of original songs released mid-November by Bristol UK based artist Julia Turner that explore the weather patterns of life, our fears, hopes and relationships with both...

Al’York is a band based in Ankara, Turkey. It started by the four of them hanging out and jamming at the Misuc Office in May of 2015. The songs started to evolve very quickly so they decided to give their first...

Glasgow’s Thula Borah are eager to share their expansive sound with the rest of the world as they gear up for the release of their six track EP, Near Life Experience, out on 27th January 2017 via Kill Jester Records. Thula...

The story of Shane O’Malley Firek, the single constant member of The Ferdy Mayne, is one of journeys – physical, spiritual, and a combination of the two. “I was going through massive change when I was writing this...

Jordan Burchel is a promising new indie folk-rock artist who grew up in Spring Hill, Florida but is currently based out of the Gainesville area. Burchel has a new album release on the way at the end of this week [12.16.16]...

Alt-rockers Team Picture have revealed their third and final release of 2016 in the form of brand new single Potpourri Headache, a delicious audio picnic for all and sundry, in which layers of sweet, syrupy synthesisers...

4 piece Gothenburg, Sweden unit Rome Is Not A Town released their debut 7” “Stupid” in late 2015. With their noisy postpunk they soon found a special place in the hearts of everyone with a fondness for cracking...

The Impossebulls returned in late November with the fourth installment in their exceptional Five By Five EP series with Gluttony. As fans have come to expect with this series, it features previously unreleased gems,...

Strange Waves, from Florence Alabama, just released their first single since the release of their EP Walls last year, we featured 38th Parallel from that release in November 2015. Strange Waves is a dynamic rock band...

Four-piece SE England based pop-rock band, TELEPHONE ROAD, have arrived with their exceptional new track, Bella. The group draw on a variety of elements across varied genres like folk, pop, and rock but are grounded in a...

Having burst onto the scene earlier this year with efficacious debut track ‘My Love’, Suffolk duo Amethysts have returned with second single ‘Stones’ which sees the duo rise once again from their rural oasis with...

Brazilian post-rock four piece E A Terra Nunca Me Pareceu Tão Distante [roughly translated to: Fear Of Trying And The Earth Never Seemed So Distant] recently released a two-track EP in February of this year, Medo De Tentar...

Episode number 166 of Insomnia Radio: UK Stuart at the controls again. Twelve tracks from UK Artists Recording Date: Monday 5th December 2016 TRT: 1:04:21 Rating: Work...

‘Lights Out’ is a first glimpse into the raucous sound of Dead Naked Hippies. Written in the hallowed walls of Temple of Boom and produced by Matt Peel (Eagulls, Pulled Apart By Horses, Autobahn), the track embraces...

Skin & Bones is a folk duo comprised of Taylor Borsuk and Peter Blackwelder who met at an ill-fitting house show after Peter had moved to California from North Carolina. The americana influenced group started their...

Today, genre-bending and experimental musician Ben Strick (Moonlapse) has released his third studio album, Viridis, with the exceptional single Dark Root Omen featured as today’s Daily Dose. “Musically,...

Steph Barrak is an independent singer/songwriter from Boston, MA. Immediately approachable and inviting, Barrak’s music is a delightfully deceptive expression of indie folk, pop, and rock. Like a warm and familiar cup...