Never Joy is the slightly dark and very promising debut from 18 year old Brighton indie folk musician Ed Tullett. You’ll definitely hear some of the his influences here, specifically Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Iron &...

Waiting In the Wings sees Helsinki Finland’s Big Wave Riders return with the first taste off their debut album which is being released through Soliti in late Summer of 2012. From the chorus that sticks in your head,...

Formed in November of 2010, Michigan’s The Appleseed Collective got a jump on the scene through endless networking and connections with the underground current of house-shows, DIY Fests, and localist enthusiasts....

The Clearing is the third album by the Bowerbirds, and as is often the case for bands that have found steady success, they had more time and better resources to make it. This is a bigger record, then, with bolder sounds...

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...

Eux Autres (pronounced ooz-oh-tra) are an Omaha-born, San Francisco-based trio, channeling sixties French pop and with a unique sensibility. The brother/sister duo, Heather and Nicholas Larimer, share lead vocals with...

Wilmington Delaware’s homegrown pop outfit has returned. After spending the last couple of years constructing, installing, and setting up a coffee pot in a new studio in their hometown, the Spinto Band has now offered up...

Luke Wyland and Dana Valatka, the Portland, Oregon-based duo known as AU, embody remarkable, frantic energy. They’ve just released their third album, in early April on Hometapes (and on The Leaf Label in Europe); AU...

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...

That crazy funkadelic track Hey Mamajo propelled me through the high desert, past the ever-glowing live online casino malaysia and up into the Sierras this past weekend, keeping me awake as I arrived in the small mountain...

Jake and Jamin Orrall, aka JEFF The Brotherhood, are seen by many as pioneers of the Nashville rock scene, but they see themselves as brothers who can’t remember not playing music together for fun. Their...

Josh Tillman, who has been recording/releasing solo albums since 2003 and who recently left Seattle’s Fleet Foxes after playing drums from 2008-2011 had an album gestating during what Tillman describes as an...

Violens’ forthcoming album, True, finds the Brooklyn three-piece blasting us with a wash of 90s sonic pop drawn from artists like Pale Saints, Cocteau Twins and McCarthy. The album’s first single,...

Veronica Falls comes to us from London, with a song from their 2011 self titled release, that came out two years after their 2009 formation. Enjoy! Members: Roxanne Clifford and James Hoare, both on vocals and guitar,...

Les Jupes are a somewhat new band from the centre of Canada and in the middle of a prairie renaissance growing around Head In The Sand Records. The group capped off a great year in 2011 with the release of a new single...

From Tiger Trap, to the Softies, and now Brave Irene – out of Canada… One of our favorite vocalists, Rose Melberg returns to us again from Vancouver to put her stamp on another round of eight tracks from the...

The first single from the eagerly anticipated second album from half-Kentish, half-Austrlian group, Allo Darlin’ entitled “Europe”. “Capricornia” shows that they’ve lost none of their ability to...

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...

Kalle Mattson returns May 1st with a new five song EP – “Lives In Between”. Recorded at the end of 2011, and mastered by Gavin Gardiner (The Wooden Sky), “Lives In Between” is the first release with a new...

Friday has finally arrived, and with it the lovely track ‘Afternoon Wonderland’ by Phoenix, Arizona duo – Bogan Via. The group is apparently less than a year old, having met in October of 2011 and then...

Back from another year at SXSW, The five sleazy Tampanians (a real word according to UrbanDictionary.com) of Sleepy Vikings have braved an infernal Florida sun to write the weird songs about stalkers, dead kings, summer,...

Today is the day that everyone starts going apeshit over archery, it seems now everybody needs a bear recurve bow, as the movie Hunger Games releases here in the US. Orlando band The Pauses have a leg up on the release...

Jon Elling, the man at the heart of Grand & Noble, grew up in Los Angeles and Jacksonville, Fla. His bi-coastal upbringing is partly responsible for his wide-open songwriting style. “I got the full L.A. experience,...

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...

SXSW along with its few musical offshoots and massive swarm of unofficial acts are gearing up for the weekend, with the city streets clogging up tonight as a whole new dynamic sweeps over Austin; for better of for worse. ...

Today and all of this week we are showcasing a few of the acts playing at or in the vicinity of the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, TX. Amongst the 50,000 performances scattered throughout all the street...

Our musical crosshairs set themselves on Columbus, Ohio this psychedelic weekend, with an explosive set of blues flavored rock from trio Mount Carmel. The group has released a new album on Siltbreeze called Real Women, a...

Rae Spoon is an indie electronic musician out of Montreal, with “I Can’t Keep All Of Our Secrets” being Rae’s sixth full-length release. A pop/electronic album about the complexity of grief, it focuses on a...

Although London based band Flashguns recently called it quits in early February with a final show in Berlin, we wanted to bring you this great track from the free sampler via Humming Records, a fine label out of...

We were quite pleased while perusing the stacks at the Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library on Facebook, that the founder not only reads Judy Blume but has our site listed amongst the choices in this fine establishment. ...

The Old Sister’s Home is Orpheum Bell’s most ambitious CD to date (it’s third!) with an eclectic style mixing folk, country, Eastern, and even a hard-driving song sung in Russian. “Poor...

[80’s quote]Les, that license in your wallet, that’s not an ordinary piece of paper, that is a driver’s license, and its not only a driver’s license, it’s an automobile license, and it’s...