Ryan Weber and Eric Osterman are Eric & Magill. The album also features Kimberly Burke (of Shearwater), Angel Deradoorian (of Dirty Projectors), Ryan Rupperchett (of Faux Fir) and Craig Montoro and John Thomas Robinette...

From the depths of North West London comes a stirring. For the past 6 months the bandits have been in hibernation; writing, recording, mostly sleeping, and are now ready to come back to the warm outdoors and hit the live...

As the follow up to their Hate is Poor EP, Edmonton Alberta’s Wool On Wolves have released the full length album Grey Matter. It was recorded and mixed in their basement rehearsal space in an effort to convey the...

Pop Psychology is the third album by the canadian Dan Bryk. He currently lives in New York. In romantic metaphor, sometimes directly about the music business, or literally even about the music itself, Pop Psychology’s ten...

Dedicated to Dedications is an alternative indie band from Sussex in the UK – driven by cello, violin and piano instead of guitars. The group was selected recently to be part of US independent label Deep Elm records...

A teaser for the new solo album from Tobias Borelius of Emerald Park Tobias Borelius from Emerald Park (Malmö, Sweden) has recorded a solo album with Swedish lyrics. “Du känner mig för väl, farväl” (“You know...

In honor of Christmas and the pilgrimage to the  yearly flickering lights of the little North Carolina town of McAdenville (aka Christmas Town USA), The Winter Sounds are back on the dose today.  Today we take a listen to...

A Christmas offering from Stockholm’s Pallers. “While working on our debut-album we decided to celebrate you all by recording this winter greeting. “This is to say “We think about you, we will meet...

Nearly three full years since last we heard from him with 2008’s ‘White Spiders’, he appears like a mirage with two alternate universe classics. Jesus Christ may be the most daring A-side we have ever heard...

The late Harvey Danger recorded this great Christmas track back in 1998 and then re-released it on an EP under their own label Phonographic Records in December 2004. Eventually the EP went out of print, but you can now...

“Eyeliner” is the new single from “Convalescing In Braille” by Crushed Stars Convalescing in Braille, the latest album by Portland, Oregon’s Crushed Stars (aka Todd Gautreau) was released November 16th,...

Coy Trap is the latest single from the self-titled debut by Invisible Hand. Adam Smith and his Invisible Hand have been producing some of the best punk-laced pop gems and quietly experimenting with home-recording under the...

Wild Nothing is the solo-project of Jack Tatum whose music is inspired by a longtime love affair with nostalgia. His debut full-length album, Gemini, released on Captured Tracks spring of 2010, is full of dreamy, carefree...

Houston may not be your best referene to quality music. Listen to Arthur Yoria and think again. If you haven’t heard of Arthur Yoria, than you should. If Insomnia Radio’s word is not enough, I should tell you...

From the French Band’s free debut album Good As You. For download links see below. A homage to Plastic Bertrand and Village people? Maybe! Maybe not! After great adventures, the ‘Naked Man’ has got dressed again to...

“The White EP” is set for release February 15, 2011 Who are The Americans! This brainchild of lead singer/producer Charlie Klarsfeld appropriates a pastiche of pop influences to form something entirely new. Not...

On Asobi Seksu’s fourth proper full-length, Fluorescence, the band’s color-saturated soundscapes get even brighter — as the record’s many shades shift with each passing song. Today we are privileged...

Freak You Out, by the Brooklyn based band Blip Blip Bleep, is undoubtfully one of my favourite tracks of 2010, and one of the best I have ever had the oportunity to use in my podcasts. Like Track Stars is the name of the...

The third track from their July release Disconnect From Desire to be featured on the Daily Dose The album, produced by band member Benjamin Curtis and mixed by Jack Joseph Puig, was recorded in the band’s home studio and...

LA’s White Lights appeared in 2009 with their debut EP ‘Oroborus’, now available for free download at BandCamp. They are now working on their second ‘Meridian’ EP due out in 2011. I ran into...

Gold is the first single from the Rasa album by We Were The States We Were The States had nearly completed the recording of its new album Rasa when the Nashville floods came. With two feet of water in the basement of Coat of...

Washington DC favorites EXIT CLOV are back with a newer single that was first put out in 2008, and more recently released on the 2010 full length, ‘Memento Mori’. The Lovely Hearts Club blog run by the good...

The pleasure of listening to full albuns. Two Strangers is the new release by Black Lab, finally. After two years of blood, sweat and blisters on their fingers, black lab’s fourth album is ready for launch. Stripping away...

In the spring of 2008, the unassuming duo Oars (David Bratton and Earl Muehlenbach) began an intensive six months of recording, song crafting and experimentation in a closet-sized Greenpoint [Brooklyn] studio across the...

Minneapolis’ Tapes ‘n Tapes are back with a new album after their 2008’s XL released Walk It Off.  Following the touring and support  of Walk It Off for a year after release, it was time for a little R...

In October, Oklahoma City’s The Purple Church released two EPs. The first is woodsporn from which this track is taken, and other is Hayseed. Both are available as free downloads from Bandcamp. Hayseed is also available...

Setting the record at four for the number of posts on the Daily Dose, the culmination of their Summer Of Singles project Back in June of this year, they released In My Dreams (ur txting me), followed by Echo on my Mind and...

Happy Turkey Day from all of us here at the network from the States. What better way to celebrate this song bereft holiday than some old school funk out of Ohio? The Jive Turkeys are made up of four musicians who have been...

Being mainstream, doesn’t always mean major labels. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, featured here sometimes before, are one of those new independent artists that won a place at mainstream music audiences. They were...

AC Berkheimer is a Rotterdam [Netherlands] based quartet formed in mid 2005. They just released their second full-length album ‘We Tell Them Tonight’, after receiving international praise for their first album...

Southerly is the nom-de-tune of Krist Krueger, whose most recent release was the lush, layered work titled Champion Of The Noisy Negativists. The digital/vinyl EP follows the artist’s celebrated 2007 album, Storyteller...

Tangents is an evolution of what many bands have and will become in the 21st century; a long distance collaboration between two musicians that takes full advantage of modern technologies. Tangents is not what you may...