Instrumental Thursday has jumped a day and hits on a Friday via London based musician Matt Stevens. Today’s feature is the lead-off track from his new album Relic that released late 2011. Matt basically uses an...

Holmes can often be found buried under a mountain of vintage recording gear in his cozy Silverlake, California home studio, cooking up tracks for himself, other artists, television and film. Roy Shakked, under his moniker...

The members of Lightning Love would really prefer not to talk about themselves. They’d much rather talk about the important subjects in life: their hometown (Ypsilanti, Michigan) their favorite breakfast (Pop-Tarts and...

Inspired by emotional turmoil, rebirth, and Stephen King’s “Dark Tower”, I Was Totally Destroying It return with a brand new album! Immediately following the release of Preludes in April 2011, IWTDI...

Since our last feature, New York’s Christina Abbott has released an entire album of songs this year entitled ‘The Swan and the Sparrow’. A few are recognizable [Everything is Byte Sized, The Other End of...

Hollywood College is Dave Lowensohn and Misha Chellam’s second and newest album. Recorded over four weeks in the shadow of the Coney Island ferris wheel, Speechwriters LLC once again teamed up with producer Adam Richman...

State Shirt is Ethan Tufts, a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist that writes and records all of his music in a tiny bedroom studio, filled with a myriad of worn instruments and cheap electronics. The SongFight website...

Earlier today while surfing around my old musical haunt know as T61, I came across a great group out of Stockholm while stretching out on their ‘Rack’ – occasionally a good place to be surprised out of left...

Here’s a really brief intro to today’s featured musician courtesy of the Wiki collective: Jonathan “Yoni” Wolf was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to Messianic Jewish parents. Before his first year in high...

Denver Colorado’s The Lumineers recently had their self-titled debut album released on Dualtone Records, as well as Rogue Records this July. In an odd twist of fate, I just found out the band is playing in the vicinity...

Fierce Creatures emerged from the scorching Fresno, CA summer of 2009 abandoning past musical undertakings that never seemed to fit quite right and creating something new and altogether enchanting. Guitar and keys drive the...

Savannah hard rock group Baroness first formed in the Summer 2003 in Georgia, founded by former members of the punk/metal band Johnny Welfare and the Paychecks. Building on two previous albums, Baroness’ new double...

Sydney songwriter Jack Carty has recently given away the track “Waiting Waiting” from his forthcoming album ‘Break Your Own Heart’. Having just completed a full national tour of his homeland of Australia, Jack...

After working on new material throughout 2011, Vancouver based duo Japandroids released their second LP, Celebration Rock, internationally on June 5 through Polyvinyl Records, prefaced by the single “The House That Heaven...

Today marks the release of the new album on Sub Pop by Australian quartet, Husky. Forever So is the sound of a band that from its inception cared more about making one sublime album than acquiring a million followers on...

With All Those Relays, NY band Scout’s first album since 2003, Ashen Keilyn has deconstructed the band and put it back together piece-by-piece — new players, new producers and, most importantly, the best songs of...

Rah Rah’s sophomore album, Breaking Hearts was recorded and mixed in Montreal by Kees Dekker (Plants & Animals) released June 1, 2010 following the 2008 debut album, Going Steady. Despite lyrics that touch on...

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 representative...

Washington DC’s Access Royale are an indie rock band that discovered each other via Craigslist in early 2011 and soon found themselves flying west to LA to shoot their first music video for today’s featured...

Lay Low is the alter-ego of Icelandic singer/songwriter Lovísa Elísabet Sigrúnardóttir, born in London to a Sri Lankan father and Icelandic mother Lay Low came about in 2006, after Lovísa was contacted by a local label...

Sudbury, Ontario singer-songwriter Brian Dunn’s second album, TVs and Radios is a smoky, intoxicant fueled tribute to long drives and the wee hours. The record reflects Dunn’s fixation with living life on the...

Scotland’s Tango in the Attic have released the free download track Paw Prints, taken from their second album Sellotape that released on the 23rd of April. Sellotape is the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2010...

Evans the Death released their self-titled debut album in April 2012 via Fortuna POP! in the UK / Europe and Slumberland Records in the US. The songs were recorded late Summer 2011 with producer Ex-Test Icicle and current...

German duo Me And My Drummer have released their single You’re A Runner on May 14th 2012, via Berlin label Sinnbus. The single is about “someone driven to the edge and an abyss” as singer Charlotte Brandi puts it....

Charlottetown Canada natives, Brohan Moore and Alec O’Hanley, have put out a new album this last month – Are You Afraid of The Danks. This is their second feature on the Daily Dose. They are described as being driven by...

The Moth & The Mirror have been proclaimed as a Scottish supergroup, comprising of members taken from an array of Scottish talent including: Stacey Sievwright from The Reindeer Section and Arab Strap (vocals/guitar),...

Portland, Oregon singer/songwriter and music producer, Sam Densmore, has been a musician his whole life, teaching himself guitar and eventually earning a BA degree in music composition in 1996. He started out playing in...

The calm, boring life of a small Midwestern town drove Max Holmquist to pick up a guitar at the age of 15. Four years later, South of Lincoln started in 2006 as his solo project. Starting with a post-punk/emo sound in the...

Kali Giaritta and Matt Harmon, about half of the Portland group The Ascetic Junkies will be on a ambitious Summer tour over the next month or two, starting off June 8th in California, then heading to Idaho, and Washington...

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 White Album are a Danish band from Copenhagen consisting of 3 very good friends with big beards and very big hearts. Rooted in folk and indie rock they make music that transcends structural boundaries of both practical...

On the eve of Memorial Day here in the States I wanted to bring two groups to your attention that helped supply the soundtrack for a newspaper digging odyssey into my southern ancestry over the past few days. From Civil War...