Over the past year or two we've featured Vancouver band, Said the Whale here on the Daily Dose and finally ran across their newer track 'Camilo', which was included in their October 2009 album entitled...

The Team Me EP is the first official release of the Norwegian band of the same name, consisting of five songs recorded in Oslo and produced and mixed by by Tom McFall (REM, Bloc Party, Snow Patrol). The EP, released on...

Mouth of a Fox is from the double single release from Los Angeles’ POLLS, released on May 24th of this year via Jaxart Records. You can also visit their Facebook page for a link to the RootsMusic player which has...

Guards was formed in New York City when Richie James Follin returned from a European tour to a recording studio with nothing in it but a broken electric 12 string guitar and an omnichord. He wrote and recorded a few songs...

Armand Margjeka was born in Tropoja, an Albanian town at the foot of the Alps. “Tropoja was one of the most isolated villages in an isolated country,” Margjeka says. The communist regime he grew up with was oppressive,...

Despite its title, Only Good Thoughts Can Stay is not an anthem for blind faith in simple pleasures. Pairing sometimes dark lyrical matter with uptempo major-chord progressions, the newest album from Portland, Oregon’s...

Scattered Trees grew up together in the outskirts of Chicago, playing music together in various groups over the years. As is the case with any ambitious set of individuals with aspirations beyond their hometown, as they...

The Chakras “We The People” released 2nd May 2011, through Planet Function, an indie rock subsidiary of R&S Records Formed in Dublin by the brothers Rocky and Gordo Whittaker and now based in London, all five...

Gottenberg Sweden’s Jens Lekman is back again with the five song ‘An Argument With Myself’ EP – out on Secretly Canadian on September 19 in the UK, September 20 in the US. WEBSITE | FACEBOOK |...

Zsammy is Sam McKinley, a one-man band out of Pittsburgh, PA. We’ve never seen too much information on the man himself, but have loved his music and featured it here several times on the network over the last few...

Portland indie orchestra Typhoon turned many a critical head in 2010 after releasing their epic Hunger and Thirst on Tender Loving Empire, and have returned rather quickly with a new release. With 2 violins, 2 trumpets, 2...

Amy LaVere’s new studio album on Archer Records, “Stranger Me”, was released July 19th in the USA and July 4th in the UK. The highly anticipated album was produced by Craig Silvey whose work with Arcade Fire...

Before signing to Reekus Records in 2009, Dublin Ireland quartet, Sweet Jane, independently released their debut EP ‘Blackboots & Blackhearts’, limiting physical copies to 300, which included 50 limited...

When playing at Lewisham’s Dirty South, five piece Brighton band PHORIA caught the attention of producer Dan Lucas. He felt their material and performance was so strong that he offered his time for free, enabling the band...

Lifejackets is the 2nd album from Aarhus, Denmark based band MIMAS. According to the group, the first one was about worries in life, and the newest is about Lifejackets; the lifejackets that keep over water, the...

Copenhagen, Denmark based Fifty Foot Spiders, mix art rock with punk, indie and noise into a brutish and bumptious experience – with room for both thinking and dancing. The quintet released their debut EP in 2008 on...

Before New York’s Luke Temple gained attention with his new band Here We Go Magic (via Western Vinyl), he released his first solo CD in late 2005 ‘Hold A Match to a gasoline World’ on Mill Pond Records out...

Today’s feature is taken from Sacramento, California band Ganglian’s brand new album ‘Still Living’ out August 29th on Souterrain Transmissions. Their official video for the track...

Monday’s taster comes from the debut EP by Moon Holiday, aka Sydney Australia’s – Alex Ward. Moon Holiday’s self titled debut EP draws its name from Alex’s childhood in China – the Moon...

Sydney Australia’s New Navy have recently released their highly anticipated debut EP ‘Uluwatu’, with the first single re-released via new label Future Classic. Named after the location where the EP was conceived,...

Brooklyn-based Jangula released their first EP last year, and are returning to the studio to record a full-length album, featuring the single “Light Left Hand.” The quartet started out of several incarnations at...

Although Brooklyn quartet MILES’ current sound is best described as melodic alternative music, the bands’ very name stands as an obvious and undeniable reminder of a treasured jazz past. However, there is more...

After getting started in 1992 with their debut EP Peppermint, and having been signed to Geffen early in their careers, Canadian favorites Sloan have continued to release quality music over the last two decades, with their...

Its bands like Brooklyn three piece Field Theory that make me want to live on the East Coast and get swept up in the live music scene. With that in mind, the band actually does have an upcoming East Coast tour date in...

It’s the 4th of July, basically the Independence Day holiday weekend here in the US, and nothing is more historically suiting for me on this day than a bit of surf oriented garage punk, this time from Seattle’s...

The Natural Shocks are a three-piece indie rock band from Toronto who just released their debut full length, Complete With Comfortable Lighting this past June 9th. Thankfully the Natural Shocks nudged us with a reminder...

Within a grainy film-still between a summer sunset and the end of times lies the post-punk squall of Weekend. Weekend filter the aggression, tempo and sneer of punk through a wall of reverb, haunting melody, feedback and...

Brooklyn’s Baby Teardrops originally formed in 2007, and reunited in 2010 after a bit of a hiatus. All three members were previously involved in other projects that came to a halt once they reunited. “We decided it...

German Error Message began in 2004 as the solo bedroom-recording project of Louisiana native Paul Kintzing. Composed by Kintzing, and occasionally assisted by a group of friends, German Error Message makes lyrically driven...

Detroit-based band ALMOST FREE has been together seven years now and the trio of friends have just released a new EP as of June 7th, entitled In/Out. In terms of the band name, frontman Andy Bird asked, “How can we be...

Its a new week and we’ve got more rock from Boston to follow up from last Tuesday, this time from three piece instrumental math-rock group Thousands who just sent us word of their debut two track self-titled EP that...

Made::In::Heights is a new project from the Blue Scholars producer Sabzi as well as Kelsey Bulkin on vocals, from the New York area. They’ve got a free EP over at BandCamp which features three full length songs as well...