Chicago group The Inventors are a four piece rock band that formed in 2014, taking their influences from almost every genre in the musical spectrum – punk, indie, rock, folk, you name it. The band started as a group of...

Chicago based surf-garage band VIETRAHM has been reportedly pummeling the planet with their special blend of psychedelic punk rock since 2015. The exceptional debut single “Louie” first arrived in March of 2016...

Chicago based foursome WILD SKIES came together through a series of Craigslist ads posted by Ohio transplant and singer/songwriter Aaron Lechlak while searching for band members to help with studio work in early 2014. ...

Those of Willow is the instrumental classical/acoustic duo of Grant Chapman and Ross Blomgren, originally from Chicago but now based out of Grayslake. They’ve worked together for over seven years to establish their...

Today, genre-bending and experimental musician Ben Strick (Moonlapse) has released his third studio album, Viridis, with the exceptional single Dark Root Omen featured as today’s Daily Dose. “Musically,...

Chicago Illinois indie rock band TYPESETTER recently issued an excellent four track split with LIVING ROOM a few months back on July 16th. You can grab limited copies of this 7″ via their Bandcamp page below on white...

Diamond Youth is a rock group out of from Baltimore, Maryland with members from Chicago, Illinois and Richmond, Virginia. The band started off by dropping a few EP’s in 2011, notably DMND, Don’t Lose Your Cool...

Chicago indie rock band Fort Frances is putting the finishing touches on their new release “Alio” coming 4/22/16, and in the last few months released the self-reflective piece, “Building a Wall”, a...

Chicago musician Rob Merz and his band Static in Verona are back with his third album “Odd Anthem“, which released on August 28th. After the draining three-year process it took to make Static in Verona’s...

Today’s feature comes from Evanston, Illinois artist Ezra Furman’s 2013 indie pop album, Day of the Dog released via Bar None Records. This second album was issued after a four/five year effort leading...

It’s a good day when you stumble across such a soulful track as the downtempo-laced ‘Numb’ by Janelle Kroll via Soundcloud’s explore feature. New York based songwriter Kroll is apparently best known...

Signal-to-Noise is the brand new project by Michael Downing, a talented electro-rock songwriter & producer based in Chicago who draws on influences from a diverse range of favorites (e.g. Grizzly Bear, Andrew Bird, and...

Chicago’s Star Tropics began as original members Scott (lead guitar) and Loren (bass, vocals) found themselves huddled around a drum machine. Searching for the sound that would eventually define the band, Star Tropics...

We again find ourselves on the Twitter search page, this time imagining a quarter drop and mechanical crane grabbing this beautiful EP and prized track out of the sea of million tweets. Well, we like to think it was...

We recently fine-tuned our search parameters on Twitter to dive into the morass of loose tweets and find some quality songs. THE LOSERS are four purveyors of such fine music from Greenville, Illinois, close friends who have...

Chicago post-punk band YEESH recorded this great single in Spring 2012 at Jennings Recording Studio, and released mid-June last year. They’ve also got a newer five song EP ‘Yeesh EP’ recorded earlier this...

The Gray Havens are Dave & Licia. They say they make narrative-pop-folk-esque music, bringing adventure & truth & melody all together. Their new EP is available for free, check the links below. Vote for this...

This particular iteration of a music project named FLETCHER began in early 2012 as a basement collaboration between brothers from London, England [Oscar and Harvey Baker] and their Chicagoan friend Tom Fry. Fletcher’s...

Today’s Christmas song comes from a band that recently was added to the Twilight saga soundtrack and it’s the third time you see this name at our posts. Actually, Sleeping at Last is at the moment a one man...

Sleeping at Last are Ryan O’Neal and Dan Perdue. I have been listening to them for more than 3 years. I first had to understand them, then started to enjoy their music, until the day I realised I had to listen to...

The scatterbrained, deconstructionist folk-rock created by Ohtis is a study in contrasts. Crisp, serene strings and soothing vocal melodies flank intense layers of instrumentation and harmony, like a more deliberate and less...

As indicated by a recent trip to Chicago’s Electrical Audio Studio (owned by Nirvana/The Pixies mastermind Steve Albini), Chicago band SLEEPING AT LAST have once again upped the artistic ante in this ambitious,...

Fresh back from a trip to Hangzhou China and beyond, Chicago musician David B Henson has sent us a handful of tracks from his upcoming debut 12-song LP slated to be untethered in May.  The spaceman adorned album is dubbed,...

Canopy Glow is the sophomore release and late 2008 Anticon debut from Chicago-based 7-piece art rock ensemble originally from Mt. Pleasant Michigan and now based in Chicago, Illinois. While 2006’s Floating World was a...

No, we didn’t win the mustard yellow belt this past year, but we accumulated so many tracks last year and through the first few weeks of 2009, we’ve felt over-gorged on music and wanted to start sharing some with...

We ran into Chris Otepka earlier this year in Austin performing under the pseudonym, The Heligoats. You may remember his previous band of six years – Troubled Hubble – played here in the past at Insomnia by past...

Based in Chicago, Illinois. From the album Red Right Return – Nov 2008. Drawing power from the world’s grid of hurt, desperation, and conflict, Janus now resides in the dark corners of loss, a future of...

Getting a little hardcore in this episode! We get to hear 2 bands from Illinois and 1 from Wisconsin! LET’S ROCK! Set List When After Comes – Spiral Trance Maybe – A.D.D. The Path – A.D.D. Monster...

Urbana IL, United States (1993 – 1999) Braid was a post-hardcore band from Urbana, Illinois that formed in 1993. After forming, the band went through several line-up changes but eventually settled on: Bob Nanna on vocals...

Jerry Finn (Of Blink 182 and Green Day fame) may have produced the Trio’s NEWEST CD “Crimson” (which frankly is just a “mature” rehashing of their better, earlier efforts); but back in 1999 when...