Here’s one last quality single to celebrate the end of 2013, coming from Colorado’s FLASH/LIGHTS, a group featuring a rotating cast of Denver musicians and fronted by vocalist/producer Ethan Converse. This new...

Antique Pony are a band from Glasgow (Scotland, UK) who have released their new album Pony earlier in December. It is offered on a ‘name your price’ basis at the BandCamp link below, or as a zip file of the 11...

Street Art: Take Berlin rescues discarded tape deck from the trash to record basic tracks for its ethereal, soulful “Lionize” debut EP. The Brooklyn and Berlin-based duo Take Berlin came together when, in the winter of...

Stockholm Sweden’s HONEYMILK have just released their debut album “Lean on the Sun” this past 25th of November after recording in July in a house outside of Stockholm for eight days and nights. We are...

Ummagma is Shauna McLarnon (a Canadian) and Alexx Kretov (from Ukraine). Today’s Dose is from their debut album “Antigravity”. “Ummagma brings an extraordinary soundtrack of reverie for both...

Malmö Sweden indie pop five-piece CANARY ISLANDS entered Studio Möllan in May this year to record three new songs. The result was released on the 20th of November as one long sound file the band jokingly call a...

We came across this via AMP (The Association of Music Podcasting). Senior AMP member Peter Clitheroe of the Suffolk and Cool Podcast recommended it, describing the song: “It’s beautiful, almost a carol, but about...

A few insomnia-stricken elves are still working on their labtops in the dark here at IR, tiny USB powered Christmas trees twinkling whilst trying to get the last bits of quality music out for the masses in 2013. Today...

“The small sleepy town of Sterling VA has a storied history in underground DIY punk and hardcore. Hailing from the ashes of such revered bands as pg.99, Sail, and Pizza, Tideland has developed upon the sound of their...

Norman Oklahoma based auto-dealer Fowler VW is back with their third annual holiday compilation, ‘A Blackwatch Christmas, Vol III (Holly-Tonk & Jingle Beats). Beings fans of the last past two offerings here we...

We’ve got a handful of holiday themed tracks that will be intermixed in the feed over the next several days starting with one of the excellent finds from the Small Bear Records Compilation, “Enter Snowman”,...

From Oakland, CA, Waterstrider just released a new cover of Little Dragon’s “Twice” This is their first release in a year and a half (since the release of “Wind-Fed Fire”) and they expect to be...

Olive Grove Records out of Scotland recently released a free sampler of music at the end of October featuring about fourteen independent artists they’ve had the pleasure to issue releases from – like Woodenbox,...

‘I Am and Say’ is The Night’s first EP release. It will be officially available on the 23rd December, 2013. We featured Australian band The Night last year, check that out here. They also released the...

Formed in late 2011 in the South Coast of England, Noyo Mathis released their debut EP, Tethers, in mid-2012 and have gone on to support great groups in their live shows like Minus the Bear and This Town Needs Guns...

Improvisational roots rock band The Backyard Committee released their new single “Festival”, the title track off their recently released sophomore album. Led by industry veteran Mike Sembos, The Backyard Committee is a...

From their album, ‘Johnny West Is Missing’. “Couch are a Norwich based Pop-Punk band, formed in early 2012. They quickly recorded a four track demo and starting playing shows in the local area, making an...

After another day of diving headfirst into Soundcloud, I emerged in Atlanta, Georgia listening to the three-piece indie surfgazing sounds of MINOR WILEY, a group who released their debut ‘Relatives’ EP in early...

From the upcoming Kristin Hoffmann remix album, “The Human Compass: New Directions” “Bringing a modern edge and eclectic spin to her classical training, multi-faceted, multi-talented musician, composer,...

In lieu of not being around due to surgery on the worst choice of days possible, I’ve planted a pre-emptive and suitable post before this Friday the 13th. Today’s featured track is from Megachurch, a heavy rock...

We featured Advent Horizon before and they just got back in touch with a couple more tracks from their album Immured, now available on iTunes. They have a new album out soon. Bio: Advent Horizon is a contemporary hybrid of...

We recently fine-tuned our search parameters on Twitter to dive into the morass of loose tweets and find some quality songs. THE LOSERS are four purveyors of such fine music from Greenville, Illinois, close friends who have...

From Ufa in Russia, North Station describe themselves as an Indie funk/rock band. Their Bio reads: “There’s nothing really much to say about the band. We just started out. And I don’t believe that musicians...

Chicago post-punk band YEESH recorded this great single in Spring 2012 at Jennings Recording Studio, and released mid-June last year. They’ve also got a newer five song EP ‘Yeesh EP’ recorded earlier this...

Beta Blocker and the Body Clock (BBATBC in shortened form), are lo-fi scuzz pop from Oxford, England whom we thankfully ran across during our forays deep into the cloud. Today’s featured track was apparently released...

Based in Huntington WV, Qiet is the artistic passion of Christopher Vincent, with co-conspirators James Maddox, Alasha Al-Qudwah, Lacey Hazel, Russell Snyder, Max Venoy and Raphael Godfrey, and they just released their new...

Manhattan-based artist PT Walkley has a new album on the way early in 2014, but outside of this new project he is also an accomplished composer for film and television, having picked up the love for certain sounds early via...

Cairo Fire formed from Side by Side (who we featured before) in Charlotte, NC. They just released their debut single “Bold & Beautiful”. They will be finishing an EP’s worth of material this year and...

Day as #1 is the 2nd single from CHRISTIAN & THE 2120’s new album “Different Strokes/Different Folks”. Christian Smedström is always on the lookout for new songs, constantly with a notebook around and...

‘Foreign Television’ is a one-man-band from Wales (UK), currently based in Moscow, Russia. All songs are written and recorded by Francis Allen. The project was born in 2011 when Allen, who had previously recorded...

The Torn are from Doncaster in the UK. After producing their first music videos for the singles Tissue Of Lies and A Thousand Leeches [see below], the band are about to release their next single Take It, a demo of it is...

Nashville, TN based artist (via Baraboo, WI) John Paul Roney has recently released one of the best albums this year, a nine track self-titled debut that came out Nov. 22nd. We recently caught wind of one of his messages via...