25-year-old Johanna Samuels is a native New Yorker who grew up in Los Angeles, where from a young age she sang in school choirs and obsessively learned to play the songs of her musical heroes by ear. In early spring of 2012...

In July of last year, the York UK based fanzine/mixtape ‘label’ Verbal Rocket released a compilation featuring a ton of great bands from around the world, a standout of which included the excellent Brooklyn, NY...

Again, while reaching out to Twitter for directions to great music we might not otherwise have heard, we came across a new compilation by California based Lost Ark Studio. On this fantastic compilation (as well as...

Yes, another day on the search functionality of Twitter, and another excellent stumble and nosedive into some most excellent indie pop and rock. This time our featured band, SLEEPWALK PARADE is from Rochester, New York, the...

Algernon Doll release their third album, Omphalic, via Struggletown Records on 30th June 2014. Omphalic sees Algernon Doll break out from his one man band persona as he continues to hone and perfect an alternative guitar...

It’s high time we showcased another favorite from last year’s debut LP release via Columbus Ohio based band – WAY YES. Today we are happy to feature the single version of ‘Get Healed’, another...

Scottish group wecamefromwolves have recently returned with their second EP entitled ‘Paradise Place’, released via Saraseto Records on the 3rd of March. The EP was produced by Bruce Rintoul at 45-A-Side studios...

The excellent new single from Stockholm based artist Cajsa Siik just released a few short days back on May 12th and the singer had a bit to say about some of the contrasting facets here in LA (vs those in Sweden) that helped...

EVVY is the newest independent artist from New York, produced by Mickey Valen (Noosa, AYER) whom recently teamed up with Chris Wallitsch forming the production duo ‘Mickey Valen & The King’. Upon teaming up...

Seaside is another recent discovery out of Jakarta Indonesia, on the new label Anoa Records – one of a few releases on their site. The indie pop band released their LP “Undone” on Dec 15 of this past year,...

Frugal Father is a electronica musician we came across whilst we threw our musical net into the stormy seas of Twitter Search, which brought up with this beautiful free song, remixed by Brooklyn New York’s Brothertiger...

CopyClub are a pretty new three piece based in Bristol playing LoFi indie rock with three part harmonies. They claim to blend electronic tones/loops using iPads as instruments at their live shows. We heard about the band...

24 Broken Amps are a Dublin Ireland based punk/grunge band that apparently “stomped into the space where no one was treading in a local scene that was deadening under the lightweight of jangly indie synthy...

Following on the international finds this past week in the realm of Twitter diving we bring you indie from India, a gem from the NW state of Nagaland to be specific. Tuden is the shortened moniker of Tuden Jamir, an indie...

We recently spotted this newish track from French indie pop duo COMETT while diving headlong into the abyss of endless music postings on Twitter (via Twitter Search). This is among the handful of sparkling songs we fished...

We took another deep dive this week into the horrors of the tweet-swill (aka Twitter Search), looking for quality independent music, which we are happy to announce we found – albeit in very short supply. Horror House...

Jakarta, Indonesia indie rock band BAREFOOD formed on late August 09 in the middle of the fasting month – an idea created by two high school friends, Rahmat Triyadi and Ditto Pradwito. They both wanted to play songs...

After about a long twenty year plus absence in releasing brand new songs, the PIXIES new album Indie Cindy delivers on Monday, 28th April. The 12 cuts on Indie Cindy were produced by Gil Norton, producer of the band’s...

Sika is a European Alternative band from Los Angeles, CA generally compared to Muse, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Depeche Mode and Queen. Their debut album, Destiny, arrived on 4/17/13. The band formed in 2002 by two professional...

Scottish indie band So Many Animal Calls have recently released a free download track ‘My Blood’s Not Mine’, taken from their second EP, Burden. Burden sees the Glasgow based four-piece make a welcome...

Heavily inspired by My Bloody Valentine, Pavement, and Sonic Youth, New Jersey’s OVERLAKE is back on the Dose with their new single, ‘Our Sky’. It arrives on the release of their new album...

Toronto songwriter Jackson Fishauf recently released his first album,’The Legitimate’ LP, 10 songs clocking in at 21 minutes, recorded over the course of three days at the Dream House Studio with members of...

From “Big Boy Baller Club,” released 4/1/2014 Channeling the Beastie Boy’s silly irreverence and party-rockin’ spirit, Atlanta Georgia’s BABY BABY blend pop/punk songwriting with a hip-hop...

In 2011, King of Prussia songwriter, singer and guitarist Brandon Hanick returned from Barcelona to American shores a new man, having written the 20 songs that would become King of Prussia’s first double album, Zonian...

Drawing inspiration from a range of influences including the Pixies, My Bloody Valentine, Modest Mouse, and the Cure, NY-based – What Moon Things blends distorted guitar hooks, somber synthesizers, and the rubbed-raw...

Columbus Ohio’s RED WANTING BLUE are on the verge of releasing a new album “Little America” this Summer after 2012’s “From the Vanishing Point”. The last album apparently hit the Top 10...

Manchester band DOUGA are about to release their debut LP, The Silent Well on the 19th of May via Do Make Merge Records. Named after a childhood nickname given by his parents to founder, frontman, and former Plank! drummer...

Outside of their 2012 and 2013 EP’s Minneapolis indie rock band Fury Things released a stand-out single on the Verbal Rocket Compilation #9, Abrasive Vignettes. This track actually came out in July of last year, the...

From the recent split between bands OLD AGAIN & FIRESTARTER comes the second feature here at the network, this time from Orlando, Florida pop-punk band, OLD AGAIN. Roswell Mill Rapids is one of the four tracks featured...

Western Australia band – Sidewalk Diamonds – have just released their new single “Not ‘Til I’m Safe Again” – the first song in a four-part collection due to be completed sometime this...

Swedish indie pop band KINETICS is back with another excellent single released on March 12th, one of several we’ve featured over the last handful of months, and just in time for Spring’s arrival. The song kept...

Rods and Cones is from the Austin, Texas electronic duo of Tyler James Flowers and Hector Carlos Ramirez, otherwise known as WEAK-WILLED. Their six song self-titled EP released this past January, with a self-described style...