We played a track by Brooklyn based Connecticut transplants Shake The Baron before their album was released last year. Now they have released the title track as a single with accompanying video, we thought it right to give...
Stefan Weiner: Fearf...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
A new solo EP, Potluck, arrived earlier today via Brooklyn based artist Stefan Weiner and we were lucky enough to get to spend part of this evening with it. Its solid from beginning to end with guest accompaniments done...
Motive: Burn Down Br...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Indie-Rock Seattle transplants, now Brooklynites, Motive released the first single Burn Down Brooklyn, from their upcoming debut full-length album coming out March 2014. The first track off of the LP features the...
Fishdoctor: Summer i...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Brooklyn psych-surf outfit Fishdoctor evolved from a bedroom studio project, with more expansive sounds added after their first EP in February 2011. Today’s introduction to the group comes from their lead-off track on...
Ivry: Monsters
posted by Stuart Morrison
Brooklyn-based singer and producer Henry Ivry released his first solo work outside his other project, the duo Year of the Tiger in July. The three tracks of his eponymous release are available for free from BandCamp. Main...
Obits: Taste the Dif...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today’s featured track, Taste the Diff, comes from Obits’ third full-length, ‘Bed & Bugs,’ out September 10th, 2013 on Sub Pop Records. Drop in at any of the following links below: WEBSITE |...
Conveyor: Right Slee...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Conveyor is a Brooklyn-based music project spawned by the fated juncture of a wandering tarot of musicians in Gainesville, FL. Following a string of self-released, handmade EPs, they released their debut full-length album,...
The Welcome Wagon: S...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The debut album by The Welcome Wagon came out in 2008 featuring a Brooklyn-based Presbyterian pastor (the Rev. Vito Aiuto) and his wife (Monique), the music being influenced by folk music, religion, popular culture, and...
Dead Leaf Echo: Memo...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Brooklyn’s Dead Leaf Echo is an art collective that released their debut LP “Thought and Language” in March, available on Neon Sigh. “She was only the dead leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago- but...
Steel Phantoms: Curt...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Former drummer of Montreal indie group Islands, Aaron Harris entered the Brooklyn scene in 2009 when he started Steel Phantoms. Jesse Newkirk soon joined the band and now the Harris/Newkirk duo melds elements from the...
Field Mouse: Tomorro...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Field Mouse is a four-piece dream pop band from Brooklyn, NY, seamlessly interweaving influences from shoegaze, indie, and power pop. The band has been recording tracks for their first full length album and are...
Sensual Harassment: ...
posted by Rodrigo
Your favourite elctro duo are back in town. Sensual Harassment have released their second e.p. At last. Sensual Harassment seem to wistfully draw upon popular music of the past as a way forward – whether it be the...
American Babies: Dan...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Since 2007 American Babies has been the mouthpiece for Philadelphia based musician Tom Hamilton. After spending the early 2000s building a national fan base fronting the electro-rock band Brothers Past, releasing two...
Awning: Home
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Awning is the Brooklyn folktronica duo of Jon Sheldrick and Luke Smith, who initially met while studying music at NYU. They both are apparently classically trained musicians who have experimented with a variety of projects...
Insomnia Radio: Doub...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
While the forecast for Brooklyn might call for rain and a 20% chance of getting stung by ice pellets, in the not so distance past the metropolis was covered with snow. This was likely around the time these two great...
Black Bird White Sky...
posted by Rodrigo
Black Bird White Sky are an electronica-rock duo that combines driving glitchy dance beats and soaring vocal melodies with the dark, complex backdrop of catchy synth hooks and guitar riffs. Their latest release, The Fall,...
City Brat: Yeah It...
posted by Rodrigo
City Brat, a world electro indie duo from Bushwick, Brooklyn. The band consists of Jason Grad (Vocals, Guitars, Synths) and Alex Fippinger (Drums). Mixing different music genres, and influenced by various world musical...
Goodbye, Labrador: M...
posted by Rodrigo
Goodbye, Labrador, with roots in Brooklyn, Barcelona and Prague, blend stateside harmonies with distinctly European nostalgia. A Thousand Times Before, their second record, is a dreamy, guitar-driven collection of skilfully...
Cultfever: Strangene...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Cultfever, made up of Tamara Jafar and Joe Durniak, released their debut, self-titled and produced album in November 2011. This song is from that album, as is the first single Knewyouwell, the video for which is below, and...
Candidate: City of H...
posted by Rodrigo
If you don’t like the defination of dreamrock, take Candidate as a superawsome rock make out party. Based in Brooklyn, they have self released this month Psychic Dissonance From The...
Apollo Run: Bending ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Brooklyn-based band Apollo Run (John McGrew, Jeff Kerestes, Graham Fisk) just released their full-length debut album, Here Be Dragons, Vol III on September 25, 2012. Bending the Light is taken from it. Another track The...
TKTTSM: Plastic Fant...
posted by Stuart Morrison
TKTTSM is the Brooklyn-based psychedelic rock duo comprised of Johanna Stahley and Owen O’Mahony. They are focusing on getting the word out about their debut self-titled album, which will be released on October 16th,...
Modern Rivals: Clock...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Modern Rivals are five friends who have been playing music together since middle school, and whom recently self-released the Sea Legs EP – a promising introduction to their sound. The Sea Legs EP was recorded and...
Grand Resort: Night ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Grand Resort is the project of a 20-year old native of the Dominican Republic named Andrés Pichardo, now resident in Brooklyn. Despite the gloomy title of his single Night is Dark, it is uplifting guitar-driven shoegazey...
Strangers: Shine On ...
posted by Rodrigo
The dancefloor heroes Sensual Harassment got their hands on Strangers and turned the anthem Shine On You into a a unforgettable song. Two things unusual today for your Daily Dose: 1st we’re featuring a version of a...
Lymbyc Systym: Prair...
posted by Stuart Morrison
One of our favourite labels, Western Vinyl has recently added today’s band Lymbyc Systym to its roster, and is releasing their album Symbolyst in September. The band will tour with Zammuto (Nick Zammuto of The Books)...
Railbird: Jump Ship
posted by Stuart Morrison
“Railbird is the indie band who everyone in the know has predicted will blow up in a major way since their self-released debut, No One, first hit the streets. This Brooklyn-based musical collective features a...
Bryan Dunn: New Merc...
posted by Rodrigo
Brooklyn based roots rocker Bryan Dunn weaves tales of romance, murder mystery, ghost stories and late night drinking with catchy hooks and clever wordplay. A true storyteller, his mix of Texas Twang, Irish folk, and New...
Insomnia Radio #181:...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
What’s this unexpected package you may ask? Today brings the 181st full length episode of Insomnia Radio, with a tribute to the promotional wonders of Boston’s MJ Epstein Memorial Library as our representative...
North Highlands: Ste...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
North Highlands—the place, not the band—is, as Brenda Malvini puts it, “a gnarly suburb trapped in time. It sounds like a beautiful name but it’s not a beautiful place.” Located just outside of Sacramento, North...
The Can’t Tell...
posted by Rodrigo
The Can’t Tells are a band, embrace brevity with concisely written whatever in hopes of being listened to by you and are loud. That’s how they introduce themselves. We will add that they are from Brooklyn and are...
Snowmine: The Hill
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The Brooklyn quintet formed from a long bubbling friendship between bassist Jay Goodman, drummer Alex Beckmann, and lead singer/composer Grayson Sanders. Many parties, road trips, and treacherous leaky basements fraught with...