Los Angeles solo artist Steffaloo’s collaboration project, TOY CAMERA, with Drew Harris of GERMANY GERMANY just finished up their first EP called ‘Blissful Youth’! It’s currently up for free download on...

Hot on the heels of Your Awful Kids, electro indie rockers What Would Jesus Drive are kicking off 2011 with another rip roaring EP – Fragile Mansions. Having played along side bands such as Dirty Pretty Things and The...

Portland’s Mnemonic Sounds released their debut album, Muscle Memories in July 2010. Since then, the band, founded by Peter Suk and Megan Ouchida, has achieved a significant degree of success in a short period of time....

April’s assembly of thirteen local artists have all been in heavy rotation in my player in the last few months via work commutes, expeditions through the ice & snow, powder carving on top of the world, and while...

Tiny Victories debut recording, Mr Bones, has arrived. A Brooklyn via Athens/DC duo, Greg Walters and Cason Kelly combine experimental electronics with earthy vocals, lush orchestration, elements of noise rock and live...

Two Door Cinema Club are an Electropop/Indie Rock band from Bangor and Donaghadee, Northern Ireland formed in 2007. They are signed to French record label Kitsuné Music, through which they released their debut album Tourist...

In their much-anticipated second album, New Medium, Faded Paper Figures return with a richer, fuller sound, even as they maintain all of Dynamo’s indie-tronica charm. Fans of the band will be happy to hear all of the...

Named indirectly by James Cameron, Technoir MA apparently takes the first part of its name from a nightclub in the Terminator movie, a name the director had chosen to represent the new style of movie he felt he had made. We...

We recently heard about fledgling band Dark Room Notes by our friends at BBE Music, and their smooth electro-rock sunk its hooks into us after repeated listening. Their debut album “We Love Your Dark Matter” was...

From Where Did All My People Go “The next big thing out of the Windy City… raging and carnal… a nervous breakdown on the dance floor” [IODA] TPC are Scott Lucas, Blake Smith and Mike...

From their new EP “HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONS” to be released on on Oct. 17 Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun is about the collaborative. It’s about the connections between sound and people. It’s about the...

LA based favorites, Letting Up Despite Great Faults are set to release their debut, self-titled LP this month. It’s been a full three years since the release of Movement, an intimate collection of intricate and...

As its title would lead one to believe, the Black River Killer EP contains the disturbing and great song “Black River Killer” from Blitzen Trapper’s excellent Sept. ‘08 full-length album Furr. What is perhaps...

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...

Josh Steinmetz performs under a number of names and with several groups including Proteus, Morgana, and Origin of Species. The album “9” marks the first time all the pseudonyms were dropped and the crutches of a...

From St. Louis but with some Portuguese roots, The Pragmatic fuse their love of analog synthesizers into a electro-blitz of new wave that really needs to be seen in their live show to be fully appreciated (see attached...

Out of the fifty odd groups I saw in Texas this last March, Blitzen Trapper certainly earned itself a well fought best-in-show on my swollen showcase spreadsheet. The picture I took here is from their performance at the...

¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo! ¡Esto es Monareta! Born in Colombia South America, Monareta‘s medley has been active since the year 2000, when composer and producer Andres Martnez started playing break beats and hip hop flows...

This episode I play some Indie Electro, Downtempo and Trip Hop tracks. If you are a big fan of The Chillcast or Dave’s Lounge this is an episode for you! I feature three bands from Chicago and two a little out of my...