Track one off the new full length record, Tracts. “Equals’ music is dramatic, yet joyous and playful. The songs may sound simple at first, but complexity shines through after careful listening. Every song is...

Strugglin’ is the first single from the debut I Am The Albatross EP. From Austin, TX, and in the tradition of ‘Keeping Austin Weird’, I Am The Albatross combines the backwoods mysticism of old-time American...

We sit up and listen when a band draws comparisons to Frank Zappa. So here is a second track from Mount Pressmore. The Austin-based band’s debut album Enjoy is out now on the band’s own Pressmore Records. Main Site |...

Other Lovers are from Austin, TX and this is from their new EP “Born To Party / Born To Be Old” which was released in December on Oscillations Records. This EP is the follow-up to Other Lovers’ self...

Austin based group HEADSHY are on the verge of releasing their conceptual Triple EP La Belle Epoque: The Head Chord, The Heart Chord, The Base Chord this upcoming January 14th, 2014 via Medicina Records. The upcoming release...

The music of Austin, Texas band MOUNT PRESSMORE straddles the jazz-rock line with a level of proficiency that brings to mind an indie-rock Steely Dan on the debut album “Enjoy,” scheduled for release on Mount...

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...

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...

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...

Another track from Austin, TX purveyors of advant-garde progressive rock, Halaska, who released their debut full length album entitled Mayantology in July. It is available in Austin record stores as well as the usual online...

Austin, TX purveyors of advant-garde progressive rock, Halaska, released their debut full length album entitled Mayantology earlier in July & it is available in Austin record stores as well as the usual online...

The Gorgeous Hands are a 60s inspired indie pop/rock quartet from Austin comprised of brothers Chris and Rusty Galis, multi-instrumentalist Charlie Magnone, and drummer/percussionist Cullen Faulk. They began writing and...

In 2011 we featured a couple of tracks from their first album, now Austin-based band Boy + Kite follow that up with a new EP, scheduled to hit digital retailers next week. Titled “We Can Go Anywhere We Want” the new EP...

Austin, TX anthemic indie-pop band The Laughing premiere the first single from their forthcoming new album. This track, “Disappear” is culled from the quartet’s sophomore full length, Oscillation, set for...

The music coming from Austin’s Kassy Key & the Raindogs is so absorbing that is impossible to be indeferent. Very dense and consistent textures. Formed after a Tom Waits failed tribute band, The Raindogs had the...

Today we are happy to feature a song from the debut EP of talented Austin singer-songwriter Amber Shirah. Shirah released the 3 song EP this last year on February 22nd. Information from the release states that the...

Now based in Austin, Letting Up Despite Great Faults is the indie electro-based sonic diary of founding member Mike Lee. Since their 2009 self-titled debut LP they’ve refined and expanded their sound, bridging the gap...

Hear Say is from the second album All Day Pass by Austin TX trio Boyfrndz, out in September. All Day Pass will be available as a self-release on CD and download on September 11th, 2012 and LP via Spora Records shortly...

Sam Chown, drummer/singer/multi-instrumentalist in Austin’s hyper-kinetic duo Zorch premieres the first song from his forthcoming solo debut under the moniker Shmu. Shmu’s album Discipline/Communication is a...

Originally Jane was a punk-rocking, all girl band drummer. She was able to open for The Clash in a band called Pulsallama. In the 90s she started an alternative country band Jean Caffeine’s All Nite Truckstop. Now...

Usually on the Daily Dose we feature new music. But sometimes we come across a reissue of something which needs a re-airing. A case in point is today’s track, from the reissue of the hugely influential album Kontiki...

JoDee Purkeypile knows what it means to produce music. This one Austin musician has recorded hundreds of songs, all original, and many all by his lonesome. His works have also been featured in the critcally acclaimed 2008...

San Marcos, TX band Lauren & The Black List spent the summer and fall of 2011 recording an EP with Roi Zerda, from which today’s feature is taken. ‘Bend and Break’ is the high energy lead off track on...

The rootsy trio began when Jazz Mills (T-Bird and the Breaks) got together with Jesse Plemons to write their first song. The collaboration took off and before long the pair was drawing major buzz at SXSW. Daniel James...

After the tail end of October I figured you all could use a palette cleanser to help wash away all the monster laden paranormal music and get us all back into the normal swing of things. Eight more tracks follow today, from...

The second single from their album Go Fly. We featured...

Austin, Texas four-piece SAINTS OF VALORY have returned with a new track that’s been released in the past week or so. We just received word that the new effort ‘The Young Sons’, was being put up at...

Austin Texas Prog/Psych Rock outfit The Boxing Lesson have released a new EP, Muerta. This is the title track from it, and was on their their first album Wild Streaks & Windy Days. This was featured on a Insomnia Radio...

Boy + Kite (“Boy Plus Kite”) was formed in 2009 in an an unlikely place – a hot tub. Back then, Boy + Kite’s Darvin Jones and Beth Puorro would often sneak into a spa on the outskirts of Austin to swim and...

Ringo Deathstarr is a shoegaze power trio from Austin, TX. Channelling diverse influences such as MBV, Fugazi, The Cure, The Smiths and The Velvet Underground into a uniquely sonic fingerprint of their own, the band released...

Austin, Texas based Sounds Under Radio have released their second album Where My Communist Heart Meets My Capitalist Mind. “Since their inception, SUR have found fans at every level. In 2007, songs from their debut...

Alhambra is the latest release from Texas based group Mother Falcon led by Austinite Nick Gregg, director of an ever-shifting flock of classical musicians in a soundscape of strings, brass, and drums with a modern...