Columbus Ohio’s +Way Yes+ dropped their 7″ Oranjudio late last year, and to celebrate they’ve got a new video for the A-side track “Automail” (see videobelow) featuring a bit of frog racing...

I must admit that Scotland has been topping my personal list of favorite music scenes over the course of the last few years, not to mention Sweden and San Francisco, with nods to dozens of others. Perth Scotland really...

Today we push an excellent El Paso, TX based heavy rock band into the daily spotlight, namely Mud of Man. They’ve apparently got a new four-man lineup in store for 2012, although the track ‘Candlebrain’...

There are many things I loathe on this special day, but Battleships ain’t one of them. This Sydney four-piece delivers with a fantastic new track, mastered in the good hands of Don Bartley (see Silverchair). The group...

Indie pop outfit San Cisco from Fremantle in sunny Western Australia deliver the follow up to “Golden Revolver.” Today’s featured track “Awkward” will be the title track on their second EP, to...

Originating as a trio based in Madison, Wis., Sleeping in the Aviary has evolved into a Minneapolis, Minn., quintet. All the members have roots in southeastern Wisconsin, and have been playing music for a decade and more in...

The Wedding Present will be releasing their much-anticipated eighth studio album, ‘Valentina’, in March. It was recorded in France, California and England during 2011 and mixed by Andrew Scheps [whose past credits...

Erin Passmore has a voice that will drop kick your heart. She is perhaps best known for her work in the Regina indie-rock band Rah Rah, where she’s a multi-instrumentalist, contributing drums, keys, bass and her...

Throughout this year Sydney, AUS musician Fronz Arp will be releasing his new songs as they’re written and ready, instead of the traditional album release route. The project name is entitled ‘FRONZ ARP IS A TINY...

Lilies on Mars are Lisa Masia and Marina Cristofalo, two musical collaborators who met over ten years ago in Sardinia, where other music projects lead to the formation of Lilies on Mars in August 2008. The three-piece band...

A little while back a band out of the San Francisco Bay area caught my attention, describing themselves as a jazzy, bluesy, folky indie-rock group. The eclectic mix fits and each song definitely has a unique styling that...

Miami based Jacuzzi Boys’ newest album, Glazin’, was released Aug. 29 last year on Hardly Art. After forming the band in 2007 and accruing a handful of 45s, the group released the LP No Seasons on Florida’s Dying...

Icarus Himself was started by Nick Whetro in 2008 as a solo project and has developed into a trio to include drummer Brad Kolberg and multi-instrumentalist Karl Christenson. Career Culture is the third in a series of...

Clinton Hill, Brooklyn four-piece Palomar have returned with a gripping new batch of excellent tracks laced with gorgeous female fronted vocals. Their new album jumps out of the gates this January 24th with the leadoff track...

Following two critically acclaimed EPs, Brooklyn based band Farewell Republic will release their debut LP, Burn the Boats, on February 21, 2012. After a year-long writing/pre-production process, Burn the Boats was tracked...

Vienna Ditto are a 3 piece self described Voodoo Sci-Fi Blues band from Reading, Oxford and London, comprising Hatty Taylor on vocals, Nigel Firth on guitar and Laptop, Scott Lawrence on Drums and Laptop. They started off...

San Marcos, TX band Lauren & The Black List spent the summer and fall of 2011 recording an EP with Roi Zerda, from which today’s feature is taken. ‘Bend and Break’ is the high energy lead off track on...

Message to Montauk is a five piece, Chicago based indie rock band that formed in the fall of 2009 and has been going strong ever since. In April 2011, they released their self-titled debut EP. Their most recent release,...

Today’s electronic feature to help launch us into the new year is by Victoria Canada’s Germany Germany (aka Drew Harris). This single, Take Me Home is from Drew’s album Adventures (17 tracks) released via...

23 year old Canadian artist Colin Fisher created this track as part of the White Cube project, in which ninety four remixes of an original poem and ambient samples were put together in a creative commons environment. These...

The Amoeba People have proposed the idea that coal is no longer a sufficient stocking stuffer for rapscallions, reprobates, and other members of the human race who show no regard for their fellow man. No, friends, these...

Its hard to go through the holiday without a few appropriately placed rowdy tracks thrown in amongst the bedecked radio hall-waves of peace and joy. So, in that vein, we are happy to have run into Oklahoma’s The Boom...

Released last month in Utrecht Netherlands, twenty+ member ensemble indie pop act ‘How to Throw a Christmas Party’ have crafted an eclectic EP capturing the spirit of Christmas, or at least their distinct...

Today we head to Oklahoma to sample the newest holiday compilation out of Norman. Local business Fowler VW has been hard at work creating a annual holiday album and concert concept, while Blackwatch Studios organized the...

With a little under two weeks until Christmas, I figured a holiday-centric song clocking in around two minutes would be a good fit for your stressed out red & green light schedule. If you dig this track, you can find it...

Philadelphia based band Jukebox the Ghost released their second album, Everything Under the Sun, last September, the follow-up to their debut 2008 release, Live & Let Ghosts. Today’s featured track features the...

Today’s feature comes from Brooklyn’s Savoir Adore, who released the track ‘Honestly’ in September of 2009 on Cantora Records. This slightly older single actually comes from their debut album...

The members of Toronto five-piece Young Doctors in Love were apparently brought together by the desire to create 3 minute pop-rock assaults. According to their Twitter feed, they are close to completing work on their full...

Southern romantic via Savannah, Dare Dukes has returned with the debut single from his forthcoming fan-funded, early 2012 full length, ‘Thugs and China Dolls’. ‘Lets be reckless, just the two of us’...

Jump Into The Gospel is fronted by Louis Epstein, a native New Yorker, whose emphatic vocals and interspersed wailing falsettos, are reminiscent of Robert Smith, David Byrne, and Shaun Ryder. Featuring an assemblage of...

Before San Francisco band Koalacaust broke up in October, they left us a few new releases of excellent well formulated material, namely the full length ‘Smiles Shine Like Broken Glass’ last August and the...

The fourth and newest release from Minnesota based group Halloween, Alaska – ‘All Night the Calls Came In’ also marks the solidification of a new lineup following an extended period of tension and...