In September last year, Brooklyn based Aaron Pfannebecker and Matt Conboy released Ghost Fits, their debut as Sisters on Narnack Records. As part of the legendary Death By Audio warehouse in Williamsburg (Conboy is one of...

Withershins is the follow-up LP to Brooklyn/Seattle based band Smoosh’s 2006 release of Free To Stay, released on June 29, 2010. Last years new album was not released on any official record label, but independently...

Yesterday I stumbled on this great band out of Brooklyn via SoundCloud, as they were announced as a featured artist over on the SC Facebook profile. Their bio lists them as making electronic music with shamanic soul vocals...

Alt-country Brooklynites MY COUSIN, THE EMPEROR release their single disc, double EP entitled, THE SUBWAY EPs on March 29, 2011. Next week, they begin a string of shows with Caitlin Cary and Matt Douglas as THE SMALL PONDS....

Peace Signs is the first single via Mistletone from Sharon Van Etten’s new album Epic, releasing in Australia March 11. Sharon came to her current residence of Brooklyn via Jersey via Tennessee via Jersey. Along the...

Brooklyn-based band The Shondes released the latest single from their My Dear One album in November in the form of an EP. “Lines & Hooks +3” contains the title track culled from the band’s second album along with...

New York indie pop band Anna Bradley was formed by frontman Kamir Kubar, who apparently lives in Berkeley, CA half of every year. The group indicates that their newest full length release Pavo is a result of six months of...

Freak You Out, by the Brooklyn based band Blip Blip Bleep, is undoubtfully one of my favourite tracks of 2010, and one of the best I have ever had the oportunity to use in my podcasts. Like Track Stars is the name of the...

In the spring of 2008, the unassuming duo Oars (David Bratton and Earl Muehlenbach) began an intensive six months of recording, song crafting and experimentation in a closet-sized Greenpoint [Brooklyn] studio across the...

Setting the record at four for the number of posts on the Daily Dose, the culmination of their Summer Of Singles project Back in June of this year, they released In My Dreams (ur txting me), followed by Echo on my Mind and...

Being mainstream, doesn’t always mean major labels. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, featured here sometimes before, are one of those new independent artists that won a place at mainstream music audiences. They were...

Pearl and the Beard is three voices, one cello, one guitar, one glockenspiel, one melodica, several drums, one accordion, ninety-six teeth, and one soul. Former strangers Jocelyn Mackenzie, Emily Hope Price, and Jeremy...

Motel Motel is an indie folk/rock band based in Brooklyn, New York, with roots and influences all over the board: Denver, Colorado; Captain Cook, Hawaii;  Richmond, Virginia as well as elsewhere across the United...

From their just-released second album Rock & Roll We first featured Woozy Viper back in December 2009 with the track Dirty Rat off their first album. We’re pleased to be able to bring you a track from their second...

The Beginning: Brit recorded an EP titled “Chapter One.” After its release, she realized it would be impossible to create the same sounds live without either growing octopus tentacles or putting a band together. ...

From their album Ways of Escape out Oct 12 Great Lakes formed in Athens, Georgia in 1996. Founded around the songwriting partnership of Ben Crum and lyricist Dan Donahue, with multi-instrumentalist Jamey Huggins and a...

From their album Ohlone Recorded over the course of a year in San Francisco, Ohlone is the debut album from Sunol. The album’s seven songs feature a mix of West African instrumentation and percussion with new American folk...

From their Debut Self-Titled, Self-Released Album Vanguard Villains formed in January 2009, born out of the remains of various New York bands. Their huge sound is built on the interplay of acrobatic guitars and drums. The...

Harper Blynn release debut album and play CD Release Party at Brooklyn Bowl Friday May 21 Loneliest Generation is the debut record from Harper Blynn, a Brooklyn, NY-based four piece named for its two principle...

Experimental dream-pop group SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS announces the July 13th release of their new album Disconnect from Desire, on Vagrant/Ghostly International and Full Time Hobby in Europe. The album, produced by band...

Brooklyn’s Here We Go Magic have announced the UK release date for their brand new album ‘Pigeons’, alongside details of their UK live dates and festival appearances from May onwards. ‘Pigeons’ is set for release...

Real Estate is a band from New Jersey, now based in Brooklyn, N.Y. The band has roots in the Garden State and they’re led by singer/guitarist Martin Courtney and feature guitarist Matthew Mondanile (the latter known to...

From 2004 to 2009, Todd Goldstein wrote music under the name ARMS, playing most of the instruments himself and recording them in his bedroom in the moments between playing guitar in his main band at the time,...

From the Album Magic Windows, Magic Nights just released on Fill in the Blank Records This is the third full length offering from Brooklyn’s The Library is on Fire, sometimes described as ’90s Indie Rock. ...

It’s been some time since we’ve checked in with New York band HOPEWELL. You may recall us heavily featuring their track ‘Calcutta’ starting back around 2006. They’ve had a lengthy history that...

French indie rocker and self-taught multi-instrumentalist Julie Peel writes smart, well-crafted folk rock with a pop sensibility reminiscent of Aimee Mann, Neil Young, Beth Orton and Feist. Julie’s debut album...

Brooklyn, New York “sissy-pop” band THE BALLET released their new album called “Bear Life” this past year, a follow up to 2006’s “Mattachine!” We don’t know too much about these guys...

Previously from the Orlando area, singer-songwriter Levi Conner and his band MILLION YEAR ECHO recently relocated to Brooklyn, NY – where they apparently picked up a new drummer. I haven’t seen too much...

As (mis)fortune may have it –  Brooklyn, NY band Pela have called it quits this September after subjected to a load of tremendous obstacles over the last few years; from recording the same album twice, to firing...

Brooklyn based -School of Seven Bells- are releasing a deluxe edition of their debut album, Alpinisms, with 9 bonus tracks on October 13th. The bonus tracks include alternate versions, live cuts, demos and new mixes. The...

Come Saturday is the newest single from Brooklyn based “The Pains of Being Pure at Heart”, and appears on their self titled debut album – out now on Slumberland Records (US) and Fortuna Pop (UK) in both...

Insomnia Radio visits New York again Recording Date: Thursday 18th June 2009 TRT: 46:40 Rating: Worksafe [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/ir166.mp3] DOWNLOAD | SUBSCRIBE A regional showcase episode of Insomnia Radio,...