LA musician Daniel Finfer’s inspiration for blending accelerating technologies with music may sound familiar to many of you. Five years ago, he was struck by how few pop songs really had a meaningful...
Demolition Means Pro...
posted by Stuart Morrison
BJ Bonin and Mike McCloskey became Demolition Means Progress in late 2011, having toured together since 2000 (as The Underthings). Grant Martin joined in 2013 to complete the lineup, and they have an ongoing collaboration...
Opa!: Russian State ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Opa! unites musicians from different parts of the huge area of the former USSR, who came together in Saint-Petersburg, the multicultural capital of Russia. This band is a product of self-expression via experienced musicians...
Learning Music: Elec...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Learning Music Monthly was a subscription based album-a-month series with today’s featured single coming from a compilation of songs from LMM 2.1 – LMM 2.6 (originally released from March – August 2009). ...
Poppy Brothers: Pill...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Poppy Brothers just released their new album Dreams of the Newly Awake and today’s Dose Pillow Talk is from it. “Poppy Brothers is an American electropop duo consisting of vocalist James Tillman and producer...
La Luz: You Disappea...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The first single has arrived from Weirdo Shrine, the new Ty Segall-produced sophomore album by Seattle surf-rock group La Luz, out August 7th on Hardly Art records. You Disappear is the perfect track to help launch off the...
The Wheel Workers: B...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Today’s Dose is by The Wheel Workers who are a Houston-based five-piece recently nominated as Houston’s “Best Pop Act” in 2014’s Houston Press Music Awards. Its the second single from their album Citizens...
Lightning Bug: Bobby
posted by Charles Stepczyk
New York based shoegaze and dream-pop indie band Lightning Bug started out as a group of best friends who started creating music together with the main ambition to share it with as many people as possible. Not too long...
The Synthetic Dream ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Today’s Dose is a track from the epic new EP The Witch King (1st Movement) from The Synthetic Dream Foundation. This 3 song EP is the first part of a trilogy, with 3 new songs being released every two months for the...
Black Angel: She Los...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Black Angel originated in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles in 1999. Currently based in the Bay Area, they’ve just released two free singles, one is today’s Dose, this song features the bass playing of Mike Stever...
Super Magic Hats: Th...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Super Magic Hats is a Melbourne-via-London based musician, beatmaker and producer whose work embraces melody, noise and experimentation. As an accomplished guitarist and bass player, live instrumentation makes its way into...
Jeremy Bass: Firefly
posted by Stuart Morrison
Today’s Dose is by Jeremy Bass and is from his album New York In Spring which is to be Self-Released on June 9th, 2015. This one of two seasonal albums released in 2015, earlier he released Winter Bare. “For...
Crookram: Crookrilla
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Netherlands based artist Crookram (Chris Angelovski) hails from The Hague, with today’s featured track coming from his 2010 release, ‘Through Windows’. Angelovski said much of his inspiration and many of...
Sorren Maclean: Tree...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
After a successful trip to the States with some tourdates here in California, Scottish artist Sorren Maclean has announced the release of his album, Winter Stay Autumn, available on 8th June 2015 via Middle Of Nowhere...
Tree Machines: Late ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Today’s Dose Late Snow is by Lawrence, Kansas-based duo, Tree Machines. The track appears on their just-released debut self-titled EP. Web Site | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube |...
The Vow: Free The Wo...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“Liverpool [UK] pop rockers The Vow have released 3 albums in 3 consecutive years. Their 2014 release “You Are?”, like its 2012 and 2013 predecessors “For a Dreamer” and “Bluer than...
Professor Kliq: Wire...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The original track by Chicago’s own Professor Kliq, “Plastic & Flashing Lights”, has been around for ages. He felt it could use a bit of a face lift and even a name change, in light of Patator...
Institute: Perpetual...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Politically speaking, not much has changed about the way Institute exists as a band since signing to Sacred Bones. Having members in Glue, Wiccans, and Back to Back, all fellow stalwarts of the Texas punk scene, helps...
Bells Atlas: Bling
posted by Stuart Morrison
Oakland, CA based Bells Atlas released their new single Bling and we’re pleased to be able to bring it to you as today’s Dose, the second from the Oakland, CA based band, following on from Future Bones,...
George Ezra: Budapes...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Parisian producer Creange recently issued this nice danceable remixed version of George Ezra’s rising single, Budapest. We typically don’t post too many remixes, but loved the tropical injection of sounds which...
Porco/Rosso: Juliana
posted by Stuart Morrison
Porco/Rosso is Mark Tseng Putterman, a NYC-based songwriter/producer. For the past 10 years he’s been experimenting with songs, sounds, and storytelling. Today’s Dose is from his Feb 2015 release...
Chasing Dreams: Magi...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Previously known as ‘Need a Name’, Dario Lupio is now ‘Chasing Dreams’, an independent German based artist out of Berlin who crafts emotive ambient notalgic beats from the inner heart. The excellent...
The House of Jed: O ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“The House of Jed is the solo project of Admiral Twin drummer Jarrod Gollihare. He records his alterna-pop-rock ditties about pretty girls, comet strikes and the end of the world (you know…the usual pop...
A Virtual Friend: Pa...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Today’s Dose is by Swiss band A Virtual Friend. “AVF offers Alternative Pop Music with various influences. It’s A Mix Of Analog And Synthetic Sounds Accompanying The Female Lead Singer, Supported By An...
Janelle Kroll: Numb
posted by Charles Stepczyk
It’s a good day when you stumble across such a soulful track as the downtempo-laced ‘Numb’ by Janelle Kroll via Soundcloud’s explore feature. New York based songwriter Kroll is apparently best known...
The Traveling Suitca...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Today’s Dose by The Traveling Suitcase is from their Nobody Wins EP “The Traveling Suitcase is a 3-piece rock outfit from Oshkosh, WI. Starting in 2010, the Suitcase has been unpacking all over the country...
Great Hare: Call Me ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Great Hare is an indie rock quartet from Gothenburg, Sweden. Drummer Lars Olausson, singer and guitarist Kalle Mogren, guitarist Anders Holmström and bass player and producer Berne Randulv formed Great Hare a few years ago,...
LiVKi: Dark Blonde R...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Today’s Dose is by Olivia Anna Livki a Berlin Germany based bassplayer, singer/songwriter, filmmaker and producer. Web Site | SoundCloud | Jamendo | Facebook | Twitter Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND...
Xuman: Blood WonR...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today we’ve got a new track up by Xuman, a Moscow based indie pop band fronted by Alexander Xuman of Orlovo, Russia, including members Ilya Sosnitskiy and David Sagamonyants. We picked out today’s feature ...
Moonbabies: 24
posted by Stuart Morrison
Today’s Dose, 24 by Swedish husband and wife duo Moonbabies is from the second double single from their album Wizards on the Beach which they are releasing tomorrow (Tuesday 28 April). Charles already gave you a...
Ed Ghost Tucker: Sof...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Ed Ghost Tucker is a four-piece Pop/Rock group from San Diego, CA fronted by three singer-songwriters, Ryan Miller, Rutger Rosenborg, and Cameron and Michaela Wilson, all of whom have played music together since childhood....
The Dead Heavys: Liq...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Waterford Ireland’s The Dead Heavys are a 6 piece psychedelic rock band preparing to release their debut album, and they’ve got a few singles from it already in circulation. The band’s...