The Shimmies: Friendly Fire

With what began as a childhood project that combined brothers Sean and Jimmy Galloway’s first names, The Shimmies has now created a self-appointed genre for itself, lovingly referred to as “home school rock.” First featured on the daily Dose in…

German Error Message: Reaching Out

German Error Message began in 2004 as the solo bedroom-recording project of Louisiana native Paul Kintzing. Composed by Kintzing, and occasionally assisted by a group of friends, German Error Message makes lyrically driven bedroom indie music, combining delicate walls of…

Welcome to Ashley: These Dreams of Mine

How many killer rock bands call Chicago home? Tons. How does a band manage to stand out from a crowd like that? By making music just like Welcome To Ashley does. Have a Hall-of-Fame list of musical influences, release a…

Scarlet Season: History of Violence

“Pop needn’t be fluffy, and can be catchy without being insipid. That’s the mantra of Scarlet Season. The new project from Seattle artist Aileen Paron takes a songcentric pop-rock approach and infuses it with a dark, cinematic, neo-synth edge and…