Saints Of Valory come with quite the international flair. Front man Gavin Jasper is Brazilian, guitarist Godfrey Thomson is American, on drums Gerard Bouvier is from France, & on keyboards Stephen Buckle hails from...

The Deer Tracks is David Lehnberg & Elin Lindfors from the small village of Gävle in the Swedish countryside. After their critically acclaimed 2008 debut album, “Aurora” released and excessive touring...

Los Angeles based band – The Henry Clay People formed in 2005 in Glendale, CA and have played hundreds of shows, as well as touring the US multiple times, performing at large music festivals such as Lollapalooza,...

We last featured Ontario Canada’s Ketch Harbour Wolves in February of ’09 with ‘So Long to the Ground’, a track off of their 2008 EP, ‘Dead Calm Horizon’. Their newer album Anachronisms...

In the spring of 2010 Ben S. traveled easterly from Los Angeles to Northern Michigan. He spent a week at the site of his childhood retreats: the shores of Lake Huron. It was there he set to work developing a batch of songs...

Brooklyn’s Laura Stevenson was schooled in the traditional music of her grandfather and grandmother (composer of “The Little Drummer Boy” and vocalist for the Benny Goodman Orchestra respectively) from an early...

Bear Driver’s twitter bio describes them as a six piece melodic, psych-pop band based between Leeds and London, UK. Their regular bio describes them as six people in a band that play instruments and take them up on...

Happy St. Patricks day to all of our listeners and avid supporters. Lets move aside the U2 cover bands, silence ye olde bagpipe tributes, and set aside that dusty celtic pan-flute vinyl of your grandfathers. We’ve...

Los Angeles beach rock group The Smiles released their newest offering called the Hermosa EP in May of 2010. The title of this 6-song EP, crowd-funded for $2,000 off KickStarter, originates from the Southern California...

The concept for Cincinatti Ohio band The Seedy Seeds was born of a casual conversation in late 2005, in which the founding members hypothesized performing as a group with the instruments they owned but hadn’t yet learned...

Formerly known as Loxsly, Austin’s Royal Forest are slated to perform at this years musical edition of the South by Southwest Festival on Sat March 19th at the Marq – 11pm. You can pick up Royal Forest’s...

Withershins is the follow-up LP to Brooklyn/Seattle based band Smoosh’s 2006 release of Free To Stay, released on June 29, 2010. Last years new album was not released on any official record label, but independently...

Yesterday I stumbled on this great band out of Brooklyn via SoundCloud, as they were announced as a featured artist over on the SC Facebook profile. Their bio lists them as making electronic music with shamanic soul...

Tunng are an experimental folk band, formed in 2003 in London, England. Today’s selection is taken from their March 2010 release …And Then We Saw Land. The band consists of Mike Lindsay (vocals, guitar), Sam...

Cattle Arithmetic, the debut album from Los Angeles based Ballerina Black released globally on January 1st, 2010 and features the excellent lead-off track ‘Leaves’ that we are bringing you today. Aside from two...

San Francisco’s The Dodos have a new album set for release on March 15th called ‘No Color’, and their record company Frenchkiss are yet again teasing us with another great track. Neko Case apparently...

Solvents are a “folk art rock pop” group from the Olympic Peninsula in the great state of Washington. Jarrod Bramson, main songwriter for the group,has managed to write, record and produce seven albums in...

Bournemouth, UK 5 piece band Rapids! formed in August 2009 and released their first 3 track, self titled EP a few months later in November. It was limited to just 200 copies and containing their earliest songs; Maps, Void...

Generationals is the New Orleans duo of Grant Widmer and Ted Joyner, a project formed after their previous group, the Eames Era, disbanded. After their debut for Park the Van in 2009 called Con Law, they came back...

Named after a vintage Gretsch bass drum pedal, Floating Action is the pseudonym of Black Mountain, North Carolina-based musician, songwriter, and producer Seth Kauffman. Following the 2007 homemade gem Research (released...

Cutting through the romantic sap straight to the more explicit underpinnings of Valentines Day, we present to you the newest single by Vancouver’s Apollo Ghosts, recently offered up for free on their Facebook page. ...

Febuary’s thirteen track show starts off in a comedic rock vein with some strong local tracks inspired by Tenacious D and even containing their rock-god DNA stamped all over them. From here we take you into a...

Peace Signs is the first single via Mistletone from Sharon Van Etten’s new album Epic, releasing in Australia March 11. Sharon came to her current residence of Brooklyn via Jersey via Tennessee via Jersey. Along the...

Released on January 25th via Arts & Crafts , TRE3S, the new album by Mexico City’s Chikita Violenta, was recorded on three sporadic trips to Canada throughout a year and a half (2009-2010). Many recognized...

We recently heard Northampton, Mass band DARLINGSIDE’s song Catbird Seat on another blog and realized that we had to immediately look into their catalog, which at the moment consists of a debut EP. Luckily the band...

Formed at the University of Manchester about five years back, The Answering Machine have their newest effort, LIFELINE coming out Feb. 21, released a few short years after their ’09 debut album Another City, Another...

Today brings us a group with a distinctive sonic palette, specifically chosen for the occasion of the Chinese New Year. We’re happy to cue up a live track from the hypnotizing orchestral group from Shanghai, Cold...

The Shanghai features continue this week, climbing toward the Chinese New Year with another indie amalgamation made up of three Canadian foreign nationals from Ottawa as well as Chinese vocalist, Little Punk. A vagabond...

Play It Strange is the third full length album recorded in just over two years since San Francisco’s The Fresh & Onlys inception with previous albums out on Woodsist and Castle Face. This newest album is also the...

Shanghai China’s Rainbow Danger Club recently released an entirely free eight-song effort in late 2010 called The New Atlantis EP – available at the Bandcamp link provided. The four-piece had the distinction...

Prisma are a progressive rock band from Zurich, Switzerland in the vein of Tool or network favorites Emptyself. Today’s feature is from Prisma’s debut full length Collusion which was released in 2006, preceeded...

Jeniferever are from Uppsala, Sweden and produce ambient indie rock/post-rock, sometimes compared to groups like The Appleseed Cast and Sigur Rós. Their name is derived from a 1989 Smashing Pumpkins song of the same...