Per local musician Brian Kenney Fresno’s mission statement, the holy triumvirate of activities in the Central California city of Fresno are: car theft, methlabs and chop shops.   While you often hear the area...

Bent By Elephants are a 7 piece folk rock band stationed in Montreal, linking patch-work improv pieces into rhythmic pop-folk songs. Luke Fowlie and vocalist Chesley Walsh began BBE in the Spring of 2008. After a year of...

Almost two decades after they formed in Simi Valley, STRUNG OUT is back with their seventh studio album, releasing later this month on Fat Wreck Chords. Strung Out’s latest album, Agents Of The Underground, is not only...

We recently discovered Tulsa, Oklahoma native and musician, Jonathan Van Risseghem over at the Garageband site, and wanted to briefly plug in there and help promote his opening track “Love, Again” from the debut...

Angelholm, Sweden’s SOUNDS LIKE VIOLENCE will be releasing their full length The Devil On Nobel Street, follow up to critically acclaimed debut With Blood On My Hands, on Burning Heart Records this late Summer. In the...

Ground Mower is an unsigned Swedish Metal band consisting of: Magnus Arnar (lead vocals), Richard Bång (percussion and drums), Tomas Marklund (bass, backing vocals), Snobben (guitar) and Joakim Hedestedt (keyboards). Ground...

As its title would lead one to believe, the Black River Killer EP contains the disturbing and great song “Black River Killer” from Blitzen Trapper’s excellent Sept. ‘08 full-length album Furr. What is perhaps...

Hot off of their Bedrooms and Backstreets Tour and the Canadian release of their second album “If I Don’t Come Home You’ll Know I’m Gone”, Toronto-based outfit The Wooden Sky is excited to be hitting the...

Julian Plenti began composing music in 1996 in New York City. He first played solo acoustic shows in and around Manhattan, at venues like Tobacco Road, Pete’s Candy Store, The Knitting Factory, The Living Room, and the...

A year and a half after releasing the acclaimed Alopecia LP, WHY? returns with their fourth album, Eskimo Snow. The two records are each other’s perfect foil: While last year’s release found Yoni Wolf and the gang...

Today we are celebrating the release of the latest album on Secretly Canadian Records by LA indie band Foreign Born, who we first played as part of our SXSW showcase compilation in 2008. The first track you will be hearing,...

Big Thing on Mars are a four-piece indie rock group from Prince Edward, British Colombia in Canada. I initially had heard this track on Garageband and thought it would be fun to feature here at the Dose. The group...

Ponytail is an explosive 4-piece noise pop band formed in Baltimore, Maryland, and signed to the label, We Are Free. Their sound has been compared to Deerhoof as well as Ecstatic Sunshine due to the band’s experimental...

Greg Laswell is a musician, recording engineer, and producer from San Diego, California – formerly the frontman of the SD-based band Shillglen.  To date, he has released three solo studio albums: “Good...

Hallelujah the Hills was born in 2005 out of the ashes of the cult Boston band The Stairs. On the night of their final performance Ryan Walsh (Vox, Guitar) and Eric Meyer (Drums) announced that they would start a new band,...

Atlanta, Ga.’s It’s Elephant’s have recently released their sophomore album “Gets Along” on June 26, which follows on the heels of their debut album “Little Trouble in Chinatown”...

How could I not feature a band here on the Daily Dose who recently broke down in Blythe, California while out on tour? This is what happened to St. Louis band SO MANY DYNAMOS in the last few months as per their most recent...

Described by one critic as being “classical post ambient nocturnal atmospheric neo-progressive folk world rock,” Norway’s Gazpacho is virtually impossible to contain in any set genre of music, though bands like...

Copenhagen Denmark’s Ciao Transizta blends period American indie with the more traditional surf in a distinctive cocktail of straightforward monotone grooves, characteristic vocals and guitar-riffs fizzling of...

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros is a sizable indie folk-revival formed by Alex Ebert of Los Angeles electro-rock group ImaRobot, an endeavour that started to take shape after the musicians separated from Virgin...

Saskatchewan based outfit Volcanoless in Canada strives to combine precise rhythms and intricate melodies with the appeal and high-paced energy of rock music. Their sonic principle lies in the coordinated...

Ryan Sollee: “I moved to Portland in the fall of 2003 from Alaska with my band at the time, The Born Losers, which played rockandroll/punk. After playing a ton of shows and a bit of touring with a lot of expectations, it...

Betty and the Werewolves are three girls and one boy from London who whoop and howl through the night as sweetly sung melodies collide with glitter-struck punk guitars. Taking inspiration from luminary lycanthropes Virginia...

Good Old War, an indie folk-rock band from Pennsylvania, is made up of Keith Goodwin, Daniel Schwartz, and Tim Arnold. The band was started after Days Away (former band of Keith and Tim) went on hiatus; Schwartz previously...

Southern California’s multifaceted prog-psych-punk quartet RX Bandits launches a massive US tour this week in support of its forthcoming fifth proper album Mandala. The long-running band’s highly anticipated disc...

Lost in the Trees is a folk orchestra from Chapel Hill NC, led by composer/songwriter Ari Picker. Picker began writing songs in his bedroom at age 15 and quickly went on to front several indie pop bands during his teenage...

Today’s Double Shot pinpoints two sets of musical roots spread out over a few separate areas of Northern California, and is partially inspired by a creative commons poem by Mill Valley, CA resident Peter...

Great Bloomers was formed when childhood pals Lowell Sostomi and Nate Hindle moved to Toronto and met Andrew Kekewich. The trio quickly formed a strong friendship based upon similar record collections— all three valued...

Walk the Moon is a soulful indie-rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio, whose sound evokes traces of the Police, XTC, ELO, Squeeze, and the Killers. Nicholas Petricca, 21, sings lead, writes, and plays keyboards, synth, and...

Australian band Howling Bells formed out of the ashes of the group Waikiki, moving to the UK shortly thereafter for purposes of recording, where they released their highly praised debut “Bella Union” in 2006. The...

As a nice audial cannonball into Summer, we’ve got a handful of tracks from San Luis Obispo roots-rock group STILL TIME’s newest album “See America” which were recently passed along into our greedy...

Seattle, Washington’s Throw Me the Statue is currently working on their second album, Creaturesque, available August 4 (Worldwide) and August 17 (UK), via Secretly Canadian. Originally the one-man project of...