Primary Records has recently announced the first full length release from Brooklyn’s SLEEPERS WORK, “No Turn Before The Shoreline”. The project is headed by William Flynn, a multi-instrumentalist and...

Denver indie rock quartet CONFLUENCE just released [January 6th!] the newest single from their math-rock arsenal, “Awaiting” – a free download at their social sites below. This followed their five song EP,...

At least a decade ago, when the site was less voluminous, I used to peruse the artist lists at CDBaby religiously, looking for standout music in the haystack. It was around 2002 that I had a Eureka moment, coming across the...

Växjö Sweden’s KINETICS just released another doozy of a single, no doubt bounding towards being a classic in their quickly expanding catalog. You may recall that we featured the single ‘Empty Lanes’...

Today’s featured track is from the first in a series of two recently released EPs by New York’s DEAD HEART BLOOM, having been recorded in New York City and Kingston, NY with production by Carlos Anthony Molina...

While we all wait anxiously in 2014 to see if Peter Venkman will ever re-appear on the silver screen, we luckily have a song to keep us repeatedly entertained in between checking the few stalwart fan blogs on the...

Mama Coco’s Funky Kitchen, a DIY recording studio, record label and musician’s collective in NY recently tipped us off to the new sophomore release from THE JEAN JACKETS. The New Jersey based band just celebrated...

Today’s feature comes from the 2nd Team Pagano compilation, 2 hours 8 mins worth of free music put together by a proactive music loving family from upstate New York. CANDY HEARTS represents the fourteenth track (out...

This past October, Albany New York based pop-punk band FIRESTARTER released a new split EP with Florida based group OLD AGAIN, featuring two songs from each band. A video for “MEMORIES” was also released at the...

Here’s one last quality single to celebrate the end of 2013, coming from Colorado’s FLASH/LIGHTS, a group featuring a rotating cast of Denver musicians and fronted by vocalist/producer Ethan Converse. This new...

Stockholm Sweden’s HONEYMILK have just released their debut album “Lean on the Sun” this past 25th of November after recording in July in a house outside of Stockholm for eight days and nights. We are...

Malmö Sweden indie pop five-piece CANARY ISLANDS entered Studio Möllan in May this year to record three new songs. The result was released on the 20th of November as one long sound file the band jokingly call a...

A few insomnia-stricken elves are still working on their labtops in the dark here at IR, tiny USB powered Christmas trees twinkling whilst trying to get the last bits of quality music out for the masses in 2013. Today...

Norman Oklahoma based auto-dealer Fowler VW is back with their third annual holiday compilation, ‘A Blackwatch Christmas, Vol III (Holly-Tonk & Jingle Beats). Beings fans of the last past two offerings here we...

We’ve got a handful of holiday themed tracks that will be intermixed in the feed over the next several days starting with one of the excellent finds from the Small Bear Records Compilation, “Enter Snowman”,...

Olive Grove Records out of Scotland recently released a free sampler of music at the end of October featuring about fourteen independent artists they’ve had the pleasure to issue releases from – like Woodenbox,...

Formed in late 2011 in the South Coast of England, Noyo Mathis released their debut EP, Tethers, in mid-2012 and have gone on to support great groups in their live shows like Minus the Bear and This Town Needs Guns...

After another day of diving headfirst into Soundcloud, I emerged in Atlanta, Georgia listening to the three-piece indie surfgazing sounds of MINOR WILEY, a group who released their debut ‘Relatives’ EP in early...

In lieu of not being around due to surgery on the worst choice of days possible, I’ve planted a pre-emptive and suitable post before this Friday the 13th. Today’s featured track is from Megachurch, a heavy rock...

We recently fine-tuned our search parameters on Twitter to dive into the morass of loose tweets and find some quality songs. THE LOSERS are four purveyors of such fine music from Greenville, Illinois, close friends who have...

Chicago post-punk band YEESH recorded this great single in Spring 2012 at Jennings Recording Studio, and released mid-June last year. They’ve also got a newer five song EP ‘Yeesh EP’ recorded earlier this...

Beta Blocker and the Body Clock (BBATBC in shortened form), are lo-fi scuzz pop from Oxford, England whom we thankfully ran across during our forays deep into the cloud. Today’s featured track was apparently released...

Manhattan-based artist PT Walkley has a new album on the way early in 2014, but outside of this new project he is also an accomplished composer for film and television, having picked up the love for certain sounds early via...

Day as #1 is the 2nd single from CHRISTIAN & THE 2120’s new album “Different Strokes/Different Folks”. Christian Smedström is always on the lookout for new songs, constantly with a notebook around and...

Nashville, TN based artist (via Baraboo, WI) John Paul Roney has recently released one of the best albums this year, a nine track self-titled debut that came out Nov. 22nd. We recently caught wind of one of his messages via...

The Appleseed Collective offers up a tasty treat with their new single, “Pumpkin Pie,” and songwriter Katie Lee’s own special recipe to serve hand in hand at the dinner table during the holidays this year....

Blizzard baby is from the special edition October release “The Romantics” via Toronto, Canadian band INLET SOUND. Their bio explains ‘the album is a narrative of sorts, forged from the anxiety of growing...

Outside the apparent homage to My Bloody Valentine in the name, Japanese duo S/A/S/B/W/I have a distinct and ethereal synth pop sound that they’ve made their own. They’ve gone and released a six song EP...

Petter Seander of Stockholm Sweden is back with his first new recording in over two years, taken from the 4 track EP, “Dear Impossible Dream”, released digitally yesterday. For those who missed Seander’s...

The latest August release from UK artist Ben K Adams, “Darker Days in the UK” looks to be the second installment of electronic music from this emerging talent. This is following closely on the heels of his first...

Snowflake is a new project from New York artist D. James Goodwin, combining the dynamic tension of bands like Mogwai, with the size and shape of Pink Floyd. In 2012 he started to record his entire debut LP solo in his...

Today we have the latest single from Malmö Sweden band LONG LONG SHOWERS, their second great piece in the last two months. In the not so distant past they released the first single ‘Red Card’ from the...