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...

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...

Good morning to all you caffeine-huffing Insomniacs and Hype Machinists. We’d like to introduce you to Irena Zilic of Zagreb, Croatia, an indie folk singer-songwriter who claims her influences are from artists along...

Todays feature comes from the Minneapolis based band Rogue Valley, notably the lead-off track from the second album “The Bookseller’s House”, part of their four album seasonally themed catalog. All of...

Talented South African folk artist Laurie Levine heads to the UK at the end of the November, playing songs from her latest release ‘Six Winters’ that launched in that region on November 5th. She first emerged on...

Yeah, you might have heard this excellent single from Barsuk earlier in the year for a quickie on NPR, but I though it could use an appropriate witching appearance in October. I think this excellent song has flipped the...

In June this Bloomington Indiana based band signed up for their first album with Bloodshot Records, their sixth full length in the quickly growing and maturing catalog. The album was apparently funded on Kickstarter and...

Officially on hiatus as of last year, the Madison Wisconsin based band released today’s featured track on their second album, Black Forest, in late 2008. Black Forest was recorded and mixed at Smart Studios in Madison,...

Hollywood College is Dave Lowensohn and Misha Chellam’s second and newest album. Recorded over four weeks in the shadow of the Coney Island ferris wheel, Speechwriters LLC once again teamed up with producer Adam Richman...

Denver Colorado’s The Lumineers recently had their self-titled debut album released on Dualtone Records, as well as Rogue Records this July. In an odd twist of fate, I just found out the band is playing in the vicinity...

Sydney songwriter Jack Carty has recently given away the track “Waiting Waiting” from his forthcoming album ‘Break Your Own Heart’. Having just completed a full national tour of his homeland of Australia, Jack...

Today marks the release of the new album on Sub Pop by Australian quartet, Husky. Forever So is the sound of a band that from its inception cared more about making one sublime album than acquiring a million followers on...

Sudbury, Ontario singer-songwriter Brian Dunn’s second album, TVs and Radios is a smoky, intoxicant fueled tribute to long drives and the wee hours. The record reflects Dunn’s fixation with living life on the...

The calm, boring life of a small Midwestern town drove Max Holmquist to pick up a guitar at the age of 15. Four years later, South of Lincoln started in 2006 as his solo project. Starting with a post-punk/emo sound in the...

On the eve of Memorial Day here in the States I wanted to bring two groups to your attention that helped supply the soundtrack for a newspaper digging odyssey into my southern ancestry over the past few days. From Civil War...

Never Joy is the slightly dark and very promising debut from 18 year old Brighton indie folk musician Ed Tullett. You’ll definitely hear some of the his influences here, specifically Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Iron &...

Formed in November of 2010, Michigan’s The Appleseed Collective got a jump on the scene through endless networking and connections with the underground current of house-shows, DIY Fests, and localist enthusiasts....

The Clearing is the third album by the Bowerbirds, and as is often the case for bands that have found steady success, they had more time and better resources to make it. This is a bigger record, then, with bolder sounds and...

Kalle Mattson returns May 1st with a new five song EP – “Lives In Between”. Recorded at the end of 2011, and mastered by Gavin Gardiner (The Wooden Sky), “Lives In Between” is the first release with a new...

Released last month in Utrecht Netherlands, twenty+ member ensemble indie pop act ‘How to Throw a Christmas Party’ have crafted an eclectic EP capturing the spirit of Christmas, or at least their distinct...

Today we head to Oklahoma to sample the newest holiday compilation out of Norman. Local business Fowler VW has been hard at work creating a annual holiday album and concert concept, while Blackwatch Studios organized the...

Southern romantic via Savannah, Dare Dukes has returned with the debut single from his forthcoming fan-funded, early 2012 full length, ‘Thugs and China Dolls’. ‘Lets be reckless, just the two of us’...

The rootsy trio began when Jazz Mills (T-Bird and the Breaks) got together with Jesse Plemons to write their first song. The collaboration took off and before long the pair was drawing major buzz at SXSW. Daniel James...

Kansas City uke musician Elsa Rae recently was featured as the SoundClouder of the day, which is where we first heard of this excellent track ‘Don’t Move to Minnesota’. A forgotten e-mail to myself and...

After the tail end of October I figured you all could use a palette cleanser to help wash away all the monster laden paranormal music and get us all back into the normal swing of things. Eight more tracks follow today, from...

Inspired by Marci Brinker’s annual Horrorlando Halloween episodes of years past, we’ve gone and created a beast of a show as a tribute; possibly the longest on the network so far. In the next two hours on...

Today marks our third feature of San Francisco based band Birdmonster here on the Network, with a spitfire of a track from their late 2009 release ‘Blood Memory’.  It was produced up at Hyde Street Studios by...

Toronto’s Megan Bonnell recently signed to Nevado Records and Management (Bahamas, Yukon Blonde, Golden Dogs), her debut EP titled MAPS being released around the world shortly thereafter on June 21st, 2011. The four...

Sweet Baboo is Stephen Black, a native of the North Wales countryside. Following the release of his third album, I’m a Dancer/Songs About Sleeping, Black has returned in 2011 with his latest EP – Girl Under A...

Most recently, Caroline Smith and company have completed tracking a new full length at the Terrarium in Minneapolis with Jason Orris (Polara, Happy Apple, Haley Bonar) and the songs are currently being mixed with Tom Herbers...

Armand Margjeka was born in Tropoja, an Albanian town at the foot of the Alps. “Tropoja was one of the most isolated villages in an isolated country,” Margjeka says. The communist regime he grew up with was oppressive,...

Its bands like Brooklyn three piece Field Theory that make me want to live on the East Coast and get swept up in the live music scene. With that in mind, the band actually does have an upcoming East Coast tour date in...