From their just-released album Dinosaur Bones and Mechanical Hands (Engine Room Recordings) Feeling trapped and isolated is a way of life in Western North Carolina. Its small towns foster unique coming-of-age experiences...

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,...

From the recently released album Still Life, we bring you Mantis with ‘What? (feat. Justis)’. “Possibly one of Canada’s freshest offspring of the love triangle between funk, soul, and hiphop,...

Hailing from Melbourne in Australia, this is from their 2004 album Ambush On All Sides, a free download from Jamendo Jokes are Ten a Penny! Currently taking an extended break from live shows to follow a few of their...

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”...

Today’s Daily Dose is brought to you by Quiet Company from Austin, TX. This track (apart from having the longest title we’ve seen since Pink Floyd’s ‘Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered...

Brand new Classic Rock, from their self-titled album. Brand new Classic rock in the vein of Free and Bad Company. Written by Dirk Blevins. This album was produced by Dirk Blevins and Jason Mays Recording Location:...

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...

From the Netherlands, this is Storybox. Today’s Daily Dose is taken from their recently released album You Can Be Replaced (produced by British producer Roger Bechirian). ‘High’ is a simple, happy pop tune...

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...

Today we bring you Drunken Boat with ‘New Pop’, from their self-titled album released on Funzalo Records. There is little to be found of them on the internet, with locations for the band ranging from...

From their album Tiger Songs     The Blacks are a dark and dancy San Francisco/NYC three-piece known for their short, blistering stage shows and laser-beam intensity. With a stripped down instrumentation...

From their EP The Generation Of This Order, available for free download from Jamendo,and released soon on afmusic Established in Monza, Italy, in 2004, CONFUSION IS NEXT is an alternative rock quartet spreading chaos...

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...

From the album An Untitled Winter Bio Flight Crash Companion is the anti-band. It is a revolving cast of musicians centered around the efforts of Evan Cooney. Sometimes its down-tempo melancholy lo-fi folk, sometimes...

And now for something completely different… Today we bring you a track from Gainesville, FL four-piece group CYNE (standing for Cultivating Your New Experience). With a theme to follow on from Sunday’s...

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...

In an attempt to restart the summer here in the UK, we give you some unashamedly summery music from Finland Even Finland has gotten a taste of real summer this year for a change, so obviously this calls for celebration...

Today we bring you The Small Cities from St. Paul, Minnesota, with a track from their debut self-titled EP released last year. With driving rhythms, gorgeous vocal harmonies and an all round cheery disposition, this is a...

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...

From Glasgow in Scotland. From The Eisenhowers latest album ‘Film your own atrocities’, we thought that this would be a good song to mark the 40th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon....

Bio: Sharon Lang started playing music the day her brother Dave taught her how to play a two-chord guitar sketch. Since then, she has sailed the musical ocean of her mind learning the currents and waves and range of her...

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...

From the album Ballads In White Forest (2008) Alone In The Chaos is a solo Creative Commons project, created in 2007 by Pascal Bar, a Belgian musician based in the city of Sprimont. Head over to his Jamendo Artist Page...

July 15th, 2009 Today’s IR Daily Dose is a special one folks – we’re promoting the release of Inside View’s EP Underneath the Stars, which is available now for the low price of nothing at all!...

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...

The title track from their third album. Autorotation is an electronic/post rock/ambient band currently based in England. Main members Robyn Sellman and Igor Olejar are now joined by Phil Stutely and Kal Bukov. Since...

July 12, 2009 From Montevideo in Uruguay, Bonnie is Sofi Garcia, Lucho Garcia, Jero Gozalez, Ignacio Rohr and Santiago Lenoble. They started life as a covers band playing all manner of classic rock and pop tunes to...

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...

From Amityville, New York – Album Savior Self out August 1st Craving Strange is a Long Island rock band that knows what it means to be rock and roll. With former area favorite Sick as Monday members Jimmy Gerovac and...

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...

Lizzy McChesney, better known by the stage name Lissy Trullie, is an American singer and former model. She also performs with her band named Lissy Trullie, and released her debut EP, ‘Self-Taught Learner’, in February...