Janesville, Wisconsin lo-fi post-punk act Elmer & The Ceramic Trees released its third album, entitled Maps of Outer Space. The album was released digitally via BandCamp on Thursday, December 15, 2016. Maps of Outer...
Ignite The Fire: Ove...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Ignite The Fire are from Maryland. Their song, ‘Over it”, is the first single from an upcoming brand-new EP with each song becoming available before the final EP is released in Spring 2017. The song is about...
Pinegrove: Old Frien...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Montclair New Jersey’s Pinegrove are back with a new live album, so to mark the occasion we are featuring the lead off studio track from their 2016 LP Cardinal to draw attention and introduce you to the group if you...
The Bats Pajamas: Ol...
posted by Stuart Morrison
The Bats Pajamas, a band from Toronto, just released (January 13, 2017) their new album, Uh Oh. Today’s Dose is a standout track from it. Uh Oh can be streamed/downloaded for free at the BandCamp link below. There...
autodrone: Witness t...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
autodrone are a NYC-based dark psychedelic rock band that formed in the latter 2000s. They reportedly combine songwriting that draws upon the five members’ psychological damage, morbid interests, and broken hearts with...
PLAZA: Origami
posted by Stuart Morrison
PLAZA release new single ‘Origami’, out on Friday 20th January via Beyond The Wall and available to stream and download on all platforms. With ‘Origami’, their first single of 2017, and first single taken from a...
Crossworlds: Dawn [S...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Kyiv Ukraine based experimental electronica/downtempo project CROSSWORLDS released their exceptional LP “Day and Night” in October of 2015. It exchanges ethnography for a family setting. Composer Oleksiy...
Kidsmoke: Waves
posted by Stuart Morrison
Welsh indie pop outfit Kidsmoke have announced the release of their latest track Waves, a gradual builder that immediately draws comparisons to the likes of Wild Nothing, Real Estate and Deerhunter. Beginning with a...
Some Skeletons: Gran...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The stunning featured track Grand Hopes comes from the Nottingham UK band SOME SKELETONS’ debut six track EP, “And Signs & Ampersands“, released December 15, 2012 – a good first introduction we...
The Nyx: Home
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The Nyx are four ferocious females who exploded onto the London music scene in March 2016. Primarily a rock band, the girls fuse elements of grunge and soul to create a very distinctive sound. Combined with the fact the...
Daddy Lion: Maslow
posted by Stuart Morrison
Daddy Lion originally started as a solo project from founding member Jeremy Joseph, and adopts the DIY ethos that he learned growing up in the Washington, DC area with its Dischord-records driven punk scene. Jeremy met...
Rest: Forgiven
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Boston Massachusetts punk/shoegaze band REST put together a six track EP “Destroy Me” in February of this past year, reportedly recorded in a Basement in Southbridge. “Forgiven” is the lead-off track...
Dom Robinson: Good L...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Leeds (UK) artist Dom Robinson has announced the arrival of his brand new single Good Love, the first of several releases planned throughout 2017 for the budding singer-songwriter. With a delicate sound heavily influenced...
Chousand: Wizard Wig
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Chousand are a self-described disingenuous punk rock band from Stamford, Connecticut who have released “Ten Years Too Late” this past September, a solid six-track EP which is the perfect soundtrack to partying...
No/Hugs: Loneliness
posted by Stuart Morrison
No/Hugs is an alternative rock band from Boston, MA formed by Narcissus A-Ngel in 2015. The band’s sound consists of Narcissus A-Ngel on vocals, Amaury Altmayer on electric guitar, Fernando Echeverry on drums, Jenn...
The Ferdy Mayne: Def...
posted by Stuart Morrison
The story of Shane O’Malley Firek, the single constant member of The Ferdy Mayne, is one of journeys – physical, spiritual, and a combination of the two. “I was going through massive change when I was writing this...
Gem Club: Spirit and...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Gem Club is a chamber pop band out of the Boston Massachusetts area made up of singer/pianist Christopher Barnes and his collaborators, cellist Kristen Drymala and vocalist Ieva Berberian. Just a few days before the New...
Why a fox: Next year
posted by Stuart Morrison
Why a fox is a one man emo folk fusion band hailing from the North Eastern suburbs of Adelaide but residing in Fukushima, Japan. Hayden Marks currently helms the full musical effort here taking on the roles of vocals,...
Degree: Sheltered Lo...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Greg Dugast, a young singer-songwriter out of Nances Frances, came back around to his acoustic stylings to end out his projects this past year (his debut year as the inspired project DEGREE). Dugast let himself dive into...
De Lune Déluge: Ink ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
New Orleans based De Lune Déluge released their second album Honeycomb in April 2016. Today’s Dose is a standout track from it. The band members are Dustin Champagne – bass, Collin Jilbert – drums,...
Plastic Picnic: Naus...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Plastic Picnic is a Brooklyn based band comprised of four Pacific Northwest transplants. The group shares a taste for lyrically forthright indie rock paired with driving 80’s rhythms, sweetly spun melodies and...
Vices: Lucky
posted by Stuart Morrison
Vices describe themselves as “a noisy, punky, mathy 3-piece. Two of us are old friends from Michigan, reunited in Chicago along with a new bass player, playing loud shows and using a lot of distortion. We clearly...
Vervex: Led By Ghost...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Led By Ghosts is one of the four tracks off Washington based project Vervex’s 2012 EP release of ‘The Wave‘, a slightly haunting yet inspiring effort to start off the new year and our second song to be...
Cynthia Lin: What Ar...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Cynthia Lin is a singer, songwriter, vocal coach, and ukulele teacher based in San Francisco who released this featured single last year on December 31, appropriately titled ‘What Are You Doing New Year’s...
Cotton Mather: Faded
posted by Stuart Morrison
Cotton Mather‘s “Cotton Mather with Nicole Atkins” EP (The Star Apple Kingdom) is out Dec. 30th, 2016. This is part of Austin Texas based Cotton Mather’s project of 64 mini-pop masterpieces, one for each...
Glass Apple Bonzai: ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The solo creative output of Ontario, Canadian artist Daniel X. Belasco, Glass Apple Bonzai has self-released two albums of 80s sounding synthwave and synthpop, won Album of the Year and Electronic Dance Music Artist of the...
Comrade Catbox: Baro...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Comrade Catbox, from Saint Louis, MO, started as a guitar two piece and have spent the past year writing and practicing with a full 4-piece band. They recently released their first song Saul, and Baroque Acquaintances is...
Chris Pendergraft: S...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Chris Pendergraft, a musician from the Bay area recently wrote and released a songs for those who fell victim to the tragic fire in Oakland a few short weeks back. Before the end of the year was up, we wanted to feature his...
Corner Suns: The Rat...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Corner Suns teams up with Sarah Jaffe for new single “The Rattle In The Room,” taken from Dallas-based band’s upcoming debut LP, out Jan. 13th. First aspiring to sound like Sabbath, duo of John Dufilho (The Apples...
Skyline Advantage: C...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Skyline Advantage are an alt-Pop outfit from the Isle of Man, their debut “The Songs About Stuff EP” is out now on Small Bear Records, on CD Cassette and download from BandCamp. They were also included on...
The Silver Fleece: T...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Since I spent every single Christmas in Texas as my relatives all lived in that state, I thought it would be nice to feature a semi-related regionally titled track from the compilation, “Hey, It’s...
The Joy Formidable: ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Happy Christmas (or Bah Humbug) from the UK’s The Joy Formidable. This is their 2009 Christmas single, so good we had to post it again. WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | TWITTER |...