A 6-piece baroque pop band from Portland, Oregon, Sunbeam is the brainchild of music producer Brian Hall. The typical sentiment in modern folk music might be one of melancholy and withdrawal, but Sunbeam aims to evoke, as...

After taking last summer to record new music, Los Angeles based Letting Up Despite Great Faults, has hit the road again this month. Joining Future Sound’s Rumble Tour, the band played a string of FREE west coast dates...

Their fourth full-length studio album, Hope & Ruin, due on Bumstead Records on April 12, is a level-raising evolution for the Toronto-based rock band with two gold records, ten top-10 singles and 800-plus concerts...

DW Void members are not new in the portuguese music scene. In the late 80’s and beginning of the 90’s bands like K4 Quadrado Azul, Aix-La-Chapelle and specially Essa Entente marked the musical scene that time....

Folly and the Hunter arrives with their debut record Residents. Available March 5th 2011. Recorded in a shared practice space in Montreal s storied Mile End neighbourhood, Folly and the Hunter s debut album Residents is at...

Great things take time and Voxhaul Broadcast is set to release their long-awaited debut full-length, Timing Is Everything on March 22, 2011. Voxhaul Broadcast are performing at Noise Pop in San Francisco in February w/ Yo...

The members of the band Batwings Catwings hail from all over the US and converge upon the wasteland of Southern California to give underground dwellers a reason to shake and sweat. Comprised of members from some of LA’s...

Dear Leader’s 4th album, Stay Epic captures the band in rare form. Singer Aaron Perrino delivers his best work on this recording, with standout performances on Barbarians and Empires. Produced by Paul Kolderie...

From Ventriloquizzing, the eighth album released since they formed in 2000. Fujiya & Miyagi are a four piece band from Brighton on the South coast of England. They are self-described as being heavily influenced by...

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...

Over the course of their upcoming EP, “Why We Need Night” (Tricycle), The Union Trade follow the contours of proven terrain and map the outlines of an evolving sound. In moments throughout, the band strips away the epic...

Norton are a portuguese band from Castelo Branco. They have been around for almost ten years, and in these last months we heard a lot about them in Portugal, due to their rock version of Pump Up the Jam. Remember...

The Wilderness is a Toronto based experimental rock outfit. Comprising of men-about-town, Lee Piazza (lead vocals), Nate Lyons-Fisher (guitar/synth), Jay Organek (bass), Chris Mason (drums/synth) and Jamie Lefebvre...

Play It Strange is the third full length album recorded in just over two years since San Francisco’s The Fresh & Onlys inception with previous albums out on Woodsist and Castle Face. This newest album is also the first...

“Steve Cowgill is the lead guitarist and occasional singer of acoustic surf rock favorites Bag of Toys. Fresh from San Francisco, Bag of Toys is a four piece acoustic surf-rock band now based in Wilmington, NC. The...

I garantee: you are not ready to listen to this. London to Tokyo were formed in 2008, in Los Angeles. While they don’t release the best rock n’ roll album, so says Rolling Stone magazine, you will find the free...

Prisma are a progressive rock band from Zurich, Switzerland in the vein of Tool or network favorites Emptyself. Today’s feature is from Prisma’s debut full length Collusion which was released in 2006, preceeded...

“Midnight Spin is a five-piece rock outfit from Williamsburg, Brooklyn who bring high-energy guitar rock for the 21st century to the NYC music scene. Formed in late 2008, the band immediately established a sizable...

Jeniferever are from Uppsala, Sweden and produce ambient indie rock/post-rock, sometimes compared to groups like The Appleseed Cast and Sigur Rós. Their name is derived from a 1989 Smashing Pumpkins song of the same...

“Formed from the ashes of Detachment Kit, BRONZE is the brand new musical project created by blood brothers Charlie H. Davis III and Ian Menard. Joined by Chicago percussion mastermind and brass band veteran Jess Birch...

This Wildlife’s album Strike Hard, Young Diamond comes at the heels of their EP of the same name. Confusing? Probably, but these twelve tracks feel like one of the most memorable finds of the entire year. Leading off with...

Sun Airway is a project from ex-A-Sides Patrick Marsceill and Jon Bathmus. After releasing a 4-song EP called ‘Oh, Naoko,’ they released their first full-length, ‘Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier,’ on October...

“Work Drugs is a sedative-wave / smooth-fi group from an abandoned pier on the banks of the Delaware River in beautiful Philadelphia, PA. “Work Drugs is Benjamin Louisiana (more instrumental/less vocal) and...

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...

Portland, Oregon’s Melodic Pop Sweethearts DERBY unveil a long awaited new batch of songs. Coming February 2011! Anyone who’s caught a live Derby show knows the raw and infectious emotion the boys are known to dish...

London based band The Veils have returned with their distinct brand of Kiwi rock on a new EP, due out this late this month on their own label PitchBeast. The forthcoming Troubles of the Brain EP showcases Andrews’ maturing...

Here is another canadian artist. This time from Mount Hope, on the outskirsts of Hamilton, Ontario. Kori Pop’s dbut album is not for those who prefer their music black and white: From the Outskirts is technicolour....

“Billy Cruz” is the first single from the upcoming Metal Mother album, Bonfire Diaries Metal Mother is the musical project of Oakland-based singer-songwriter, Tara Tati. Her debut LP, Bonfire Diaries will be released...

The title track from L.A. band Wake Up Lucid’s new EP to be released Feb 15th. L.A.’s Wake Up Lucid started as a vision of singer/guitarist Ryan Baca’s father, who had passed years earlier. In the dream,...

Adrift is a free track from the Portland Oregon band’s new album Labyrinth FALLEN PARROT is an alternative rock band formed in the summer of 2009 out of Portland, OR. Originally composed of Gordon Ashby (guitar),...

Jack Johnson’s breakthrough album Brushfire Fairytales – an album Johnson self released, indie kids – has been remastered from the original half inch analog master tapes by the legendary Bernie Grundman...

London (Dalston) noise-pop trio Male Bonding plays fast. Nothing Hurts, the band’s first full-length, gets it done in half an hour, and most songs clock in at around two minutes. “I don’t like long songs,” says...