Today’s episode warms us up a bit with a healthy dose of rock from UK, Canada, New York, Mexico City (and beyond) before our founder, Jason Evangelho takes over the controls for IR #165. The name of this episode has...

Deadbeat Darling is a band living in New York City founded by singer/guitarist Joseph King, who after 7 years as a respected songwriter and frontman in the Austin music scene, moved to NYC in October of 2005 to begin work in...

When not playing in his full-time gig with Wilco, New Jersey native-via-Chicagoan-via-Brooklynite Mikael Jorgensen crafts pitch-perfect pop songs under the moniker of Pronto. The full story begins all the way back in 1995,...

Grrr… is the third full length album by Brooklyn, New York indie rock group Bishop Allen. It was just released last month on March 10th and is a follow-up to their 2007 album, The Broken String. Bishop Allen formed...

From their EP My Apple IIe is Singing Sad Songs to Me on Roses & Hello Their new release, My Apple IIe…, includes four tracks and clocks in at over 20 minutes of the band’s signature mix of ebullient pop melodies...

Crystal Stilts is a Brooklyn, N.Y., quartet. Its sound — equally droll, moody and buoyant — has roots in early ’80s Manchester pop as well as in minimalist garage-rock acts. The band has drawn comparisons to Interpol,...

New live EP, “Lay That Cable” released today 31 Mar 2009 “Allison from Action Painters band here. Our new Live EP, “Lay That Cable,” is done! It will be released on iTunes this Tuesday, March...

The Cloud Room, named after the Prohibition-era speakeasy at the top of the Chrysler Building, is a three piece band based out of Brooklyn, New York. They recently released an EP late last year named “Please...

Developed over a two-month period of stream-of-consciousness recording in Greenpoint, Brooklyn Luke Temple’s self-titled debut under his new moniker Here We Go Magic is a remarkable departure from his signature...

Named after a dance that originated in Harlem in the early 80s, the band Harlem Shakes was born in Brooklyn in 2006.  Burning Birthdays, the band’s self-released debut EP, came out in 2007 to wide acclaim, earning...

From The Upside Down & Backwards EP, 2008 UPDATE (10/18/2010): We haven’t talked about Atomic Tom for awhile, but the band is making headlines this week with what can only be described as a performance of pure...

The latest single from The Action Painters. From their upcoming 2009 record with pop Producer Pete Wade. Formed in a frigid Brooklyn basement in 2006, Action Painters are a scraggly band of misfits who practiced hard...

Twin sisters from California meet boy from New Jersey; based out of Brooklyn, NY. Here’s a few words on what they have to say about themselves: “As Children of the 80s, we’ve seen a thing or two. We went...

From his just released album Live Wires Originally from Lincoln Nebraska and now based in Brooklyn, New York, Aaron says he has spent the last two years writing and recording Live Wires with collaborator Christian...

The most infectious blast of pop perfection you will hear all year, a tidy distillation of all the great noise-pop precedents – early MBV, House of Love, Pale Saints, Rocketship – but with that incredible...

No, we didn’t win the mustard yellow belt this past year, but we accumulated so many tracks last year and through the first few weeks of 2009, we’ve felt over-gorged on music and wanted to start sharing some with...

With a sound that derives itself from composers and songwriters across the board, Emanuel & the Fear is an extraordinary 11-piece orchestra-rock band that focuses on intertwining the modern day pop song with extravagant...

From his recently released album “Drunk With Translation” Geoff Ereth is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Fountain Valley, CA. His music has been described as orchestral folk due to the...

From Brooklyn, New York, this is from their 2008 EP Bedrooms,which you can download for free from their web site. New York-based pop band Xylos (a variation of the founder’s last name) began as Eric Zeiler’s lyrics....

. The Trembling Turncoats are proud to present their LP “Lieutenant Commander.” A Brooklyn based band, TTT’s musical allure consists of edgy, gritty and sometimes bittersweet rock songs which embrace...

Like many bands before them, School of Seven Bells were born as the result of a late-night revelation. Benjamin Curtis connected with sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza in 2004 while their bands—Secret Machines and...

Takka Takka has a new album out called Migration on Ernest Jenning Record Co. Instead of firing up songs from that release, we are going to first introduce you to these New York based musicians by heading back to their 2007...

Brooklyn, NY based group Lowry just released their debut album Love is Dead on Engine Room Recordings, and its a devastatingly romantic glimpse inside the world of this indie folk quintet. Today’s feature, One Thing,...

The year is obviously 2008, not 2005 as the evil announcer at the show header describes. Yes, as you will quickly notice, there is some sort of robotic, computer, and videogame nerdery meshed together unseamlessly in this...

So you are done with Side A, no? If not, you’ve stumbled across the second side of our mixtape set tipping a hat toward the Siren Music Festival presented annually at Coney Island, NY by the Village Voice. The image...

On July 19, 2008 an incredible selection of musical talent assembled under the shadow of the famed eighty-one year old Cyclone rollercoaster at the storied community of Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. This mixtape is a...

You may be familiar with Brooklyn NY based singer-songwriter Mike Doughty through his work in the 90’s with the group Soul Coughing. In 2000 he broke up that band and toured the country selling 20,000 copies of his...

“Where are the children of table 34?” The Rollo Treadway are five people right now but they used to be only two when Blake and David did some demos a bunch of years ago and then they were four people for...

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