Today’s Irish spotlight was a tip off from the fine people over at Fat Cat Records, a nice follow-up to yesterday’s feature out of the Dublin area. Policy are a four piece, also near Dublin who recorded a debut...

CAB#X are a band from Dublin in Ireland, who recorded themselves in an old office in the Dublin suburbs, and released their first album Book of Deeds in 2011, from which today’s Dose is taken. They are currently...

The new song by Lafayette’s The Formal Institute of Great Hit Tunes (FIGHTs) off their upcoming album ‘Music by Villains’ definitely stands out from the norm. ‘Beginning’ has some flavorful...

The Persian Leaps began as a phrase singer/guitarist Drew Forsberg doodled in a notebook margin in college. He recorded music as The Persian Leaps for years, but until recently, his songs didn’t see the light of day. In...

Ula Ruth grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Raised Southern Baptist, she found her voice singing in church. She grew up with nothing, and dreamed of becoming something. She left her home at early age with the hopes of...

Seattle’s The Head and the Heart are about to launch a new LP via Subpop this October 15th entitled ‘Let’s Be Still’. As we have our heads in the sand occasionally we have not played them yet on the...

SPC ECO have just released Fallen Stars, the second single from the forthcoming album Sirens and Satellites. This is a second play on the Dose for SPC ECO (Space Echo) who are a UK duo, Rose Berlin (vox and words) and Dean...

Austin’s Shearwater have a new album called ‘Fellow Travellers’ on the way delivering in late November through Subpop, which we are all anxiously awaiting. However, before that arrives I’d like to...

Vintage Moon are a new band out of Silverlake Los Angeles and they just released Tyro, the first single off their upcoming EP which they plan to release in November/December. They say of themselves: “We play retro...

Today we dive back into the Arizona music scene with a band out of Tempe – Future Loves Past, an excellent psychedelic soul-pop group with an album on the way. Their debut full-length album, All the Luscious Plants...

Sedona, AZ based ‘psychedelic desert folk’ band decker. just released the music video for the song Shadow Days from their most recent album Slider, released last March. Check this out as today’s Daily Dose,...

While the experimental electronic tracks by San Francisco artist, Smokething, may be a couple of years old, they deserve a second or fifteenth listen from us and other listeners. I found this outstanding track at the old...

Martin McNulty Crane V comes from a long line of exceptional Martins. There’s an orphan who became attorney general of Texas and fought the KKK, a lieutenant who fought in WWI, an airline pilot who raised his family in...

Pennsylvania indie band Edelweiss released their new EP Honduras on August 6, 2013. Influenced by Yourself and the Air, Foals, Bloc Party, and Arctic Monkeys, the quintet first formed while all five members were attending...

Today’s feature comes from the new MINKS record ‘Tides End’ that released August 6th on Captured Tracks. The LP is named for a beachfront estate frontman/songwriter Sonny Kilfoyle had wandered upon one day...

Britain’s young new heavy rock heroes Black Moth have announced the North American release of the band’s breakout UK debut coming in October. The first track from ‘The Killing Jar’ is today’s...

Austin, TX group East Cameron Folkcore are releasing their second album, “For Sale” to the European market this 13th, having released in the States back in February to a nice round of praise. The group initially...

Born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago, Mike Else, AKA Professor Kliq, has been creating music with computers since 1999 in a variety of styles and genres. All original works have been released under a Creative Commons...

Toronto band The Bats Pajamas have released their new EP, “Just Ripe”, online at BandCamp and also a video to go with the first track, which is today’s Dose. Check out the links and video below for...

Baltimore’s Eureka Birds are returning with their newest full length ‘Strangers’ a few short days before Halloween this year, with a nice ghostly album cover to go along with, designed by artist Bridget...

American Desi, the second album by Chicago-based band Clara May is scheduled for release on October 8th, 2013. The album’s first single “Badlands” is today’s Daily Dose. Main Site | Facebook | Twitter |...

Lush multilayered synth arrangements, thick bass lines, and catchy guitars run Top Less through the gamut of electro, dance and glam pop. Hooky vocals elevate their songs to anthemic heights. The lyrics, often ironic and...

Abscondo is a modern alternative band created by Mark Manney, an American musician and writer living in Europe (currently Kosice, Slovakia). What started as a solo recording project became a band in 2012. In that same year,...

Not too many years following artist Andrei Tutunaru’s move from Los Angeles to Portland, Maine, comes his long awaited twelve song release, “Euphonious Dawn” under his familiar yet still mysterious moniker,...

Washington DC based Dot Dash have been featured once before on The Daily Dose, and now they have a new album out called Half-Remembered Dream (their third in less than two years) its time for another play. The album is...

Los Angeles-based musician Kim Lenz has been cultivating her take on rockabilly since 1998, releasing three albums, including a pair for Hightone Records – one of the most influential labels in the genre – and playing...

Glasgow, Scotland’s CAMPFIRES IN WINTER is releasing a new three song EP “Picture of Health” in late September, but we wanted to first start off here by featuring an introductory piece from their demos...

The Oyster Murders’ name often raises curious looks from those hearing it for the first time, until they realize it derives from Lewis Carroll’s classic novella Through the Looking Glass. The band enjoys this...

Lectures is a fairly new group from Southeast England [Tunbridge Wells], who’ve released their debut EP a few short days ago. Its a brilliant first offering and we wanted to share the slowly unwinding and revelatory...

The release of Tape Deck Mountain’s sophomore LP titled SWAY will finally reach the public’s ear in its entirety on October 1st 2013. SWAY was written and recorded during principle member Travis Trevisan’s...

Newcastle, UK indie folk artist SUNTRAPP is an inspiring new talent that shows the promise of earlier emergent luminaries such as Nick Drake & Alexi Murdoch – straight out of the gate. He recently released the...

Australia’s Deep Sea Arcade have spent the best part of the last year living in the UK, soaking up the culture and imparting some of their own as they lay down their sophomore record, quickly creating the same buzz in...