We sometimes describe often featured bands as “Network Favourites”, but to use that term for Oakland’s Sentinel is an understatement. Sentinel could justifiably be described as an Insomnia Radio House...

Metal Mother is the moniker of the newest musical undertaking of singer/soundmaker, Tara Tati. Shake is the second track we’ve featured from the album Bonfire Diaries. For the past ten years, Tati has been developing...

Its not often that we post the same track twice on the Daily Dose (although I did recently, by mistake), and we don’t post many remixes. But when I came upon this I felt I had to share it with you, as its a track by a...

Therapies Son quickly won fans last fall when his humbly self-recorded demo of shimmering pop surfaced, catching the ears of some elite press and becoming something of an Internet sensation. Therapies Son, the nom de...

Manchester solo artist Michael Bear goes by the dream enduced name of Perendiz, an epiphany of sorts etched into his eyelids by morning’s wake, which he quickly typed into his iPhone and adopted as his moniker. ...

Something a little heavier than the average Daily Dose offering today, from their upcoming single release on 30 November A trio of transplanted Floridians, Dead Meat live in San Francisco. After a couple of cassettes, The...

In retrospect, I may have been too honest in my first (of many) emails to The Bolts' Addam Farmer. Here's an exact copy/paste: "My inner music snob wants to hate it because it sounds SO very mainstream, but my inner child is rocking out."

The Superbees are back with the long awaited follow-up to “High Volume”. Reunited once again with the original line-up, The Superbees deliver “Top Of The Rocks”, a knockout six-song EP that picks up...

Voxhaul Broadcast are currently on the East Coast leg of their national tour and anointed NYC with a blistering set on Wednesday evening at Fontana’s in the Lower East Side. Voxhaul Broadcast has pretty much taken...

From the Astral Turf five track EP LA’s indie-driven rock band Downtown/ Union formed in 2006 as a two-piece pop outfit by its principle songwriters Bo Bory and Jeff Electric. Known for their stripped down songs with...

California 5-piece, Young The Giant have been very busy. Garnering a fervent and loyal fan base from their electric live shows, the release of their 2008 debut EP Shake My Hand, their recent tour with Minus The Bear, and...

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...

Since their Formation in the winter of 2007, the members of Ontario, California’s The Motel Life have continued to make a name for themselves in their short existence. With an ear pleasing blend of rock, 90s...

The Shimmies give regards “To All Beloved Enemies” on debut album Still maturing from a childhood project that combined brothers Sean and Jimmy Galloway’s first names, The Shimmies have created a self-appointed genre...

Duranta D. Cook (born December 31 1980 in Vallejo, California, USA), is an indie singer-songwriter that goes by his artist name Vital. Prior to starting his solo career Vital wanted to be behind the music scene, writing and...

Tera Melos to unleash their Rats. Not literally, but Patagonian Rats the band’s first proper full-length, which is packed with wily melodies and scurrying rhythms. Tera Melos formed in 2004 as a quartet, releasing...

The Young Veins’ debut album, Take a Vacation!, is out on June 8th via One Haven Music. On release day, the band will be in Los Angeles to perform at famed independent record store, Origami Vinyl, for a special street date...

The Title track from Open Hand’s new album on Anodyne Records California’s Open Hand is your modern alt/rock band with stony guitars and a heavy beat. But you can expect to hear playful female vocals,...

The Title Track from their new EP on Deep Elm Records Originally from Fort Collins Colorado and now based in Santa Monica California, RIDE YOUR BIKE is Mike Getches (vocals, guitar), Ryan Hassell (guitar, vocals), and...

A dirty slide across acoustic guitar strings. The amplified harmonica and dancing piano keys. The jumping bassline and call-and-response solos. Loose, bluesy vocals. This all equals the infectious, highly replayable...

Step right up! We’ve got eighteen tracks from eighteen different indie artists hailing from the Central Valley region of California, with a regional bullseye on the city of Fresno – presented in the traditional...

This marks the 2nd State Shirt appearance on the ‘Dose: If you dig this track, make sure to check out “Time To Go” which Charles featured on our Daily Dose feed a couple months back. State Shirt sculpts...

Drew Danburry is a musician who has toured independently and released records independently for approximately five years or so. He can’t remember all the specifics of his wack life, otherwise we’d know all the...

Lemonwilde’s 5 song EP Red Room is a triumph, in that it expresses angst without sounding pretentious, emo or boring. In fact it’s quite the opposite: simple, well crafted, beautifully executed and moody as...

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...

Hard, dark edged, apocalyptic Post Punk with provocative sex themes, biting social Commentary, and Bukowski-esk stories of excess and debauchery from an innovator of Post Punk Bruce (Ravens) Moreland. Moreland who co founded...

New album Somniloquy by the Endless will be released January 13, 2009. the Republic of Heaven was the first full-length release from husband-and-wife dreampop band the Endless. After two widely successful EPs, 2002s...

Great Gustav! Incomplete Neighbor, an indie rock band from San Diego has put together a batch of demos bound for their debut album coming late this Fall or possibly in the Spring. Incomplete Neighbor is also designing...

With vocals swimming into the mystic range of Van Morrison and even Vedder or Duritz, San Luis Obispo’s Still Time adeptly soaks up a variety of rock, folk, jazz and reggae influences and styles in the ever-widening...

Todays inspiring new artist rumbles in off Van Nuys Blvd., whipping off potshots of soul-tinged rock, delivering the theme track for your life from atop their funky chariot, and driving a straight line through the arena...

I WISH TO ANNOUNCE THAT… Apple Valley based progressive rock band Aulta will be performing at two upcoming shows here in the Southland over the next few weeks, specifically in Fullerton at The Alley and then a week or...

Opening up our newest mixed shot comes LA’s Horrorpops, whom are Denmark reared and currently gearing up to blaze a trail across the United States with their third release, “Kiss Kiss Kill Kill”. ...