Garage rock/punk trio The Bay Rays have announced the forthcoming release of their debut single Four Walls. The Kent [UK] outfit’s frenetic blend of rock n’ roll is the ideal introduction to the band and arrives just...
The Emerald Armada: ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
To properly celebrate St. Paddy’s, we present The Emerald Armada, reportedly brought to life in Belfast, Ireland six years ago to create music about all of life’s little inspirations. Since this time frame the...
Polecat: Christine
posted by Stuart Morrison
We first featured Jam To Bluegrass-Folk Bellingham-based Band Polecat in February. Their new album ‘Into The Wind’ was just released on March 11th. Polecat will embark on a headlining tour supporting Into The...
MYATB: Cosy Caravan
posted by Stuart Morrison
“Understated melodic catchy guitar riffs fronted by an alt country female vocal is the signature sound of guitar duo MYATB (Me You & The Boy). Sounds like 60’s pop, americana and psychedelic surf pop. Their...
One Day, After Schoo...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Taking its name from an Arab Strap song – One Day, After School… is the work of Dean Freeman, a musician and writer hailing from Wakefield in the UK. Donations toward his newest single Somasphere, found over at...
Leave The Memories: ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Leave The Memories is an acoustic trio from Venice (Italy) with influences from metal as well as from pop, rock and electronic music. The band was started by Mirco Basso (lead vocals, age 18), Luca Basso (rhythm guitar,...
MINOTAURS: Echoes
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Nathan Lawr of MINOTAURS grew up outside his band’s homebase of Guelph, Ontario, where he still lives now. He describes the new MINOTAURS album Weird Waves [his seventh album, and third as MINOTAURS] as an...
Fallon Cush: Useless...
posted by Stuart Morrison
The enigmatically named Fallon Cush is the vehicle for songwriter Steve Smith, a Sydney musician who has been recording, releasing and performing music for three decades. With a knack for gathering exceptional musicians...
Hop Along: Powerful ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Powerful Man is the second single from Philadelphia band, Hop Along’s album Painted Shut out on Saddle Creek. Bandmember Frances Quinlan described today’s featured track as “about a very important day in...
The Rondo Brothers: ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“The Rondo Brothers is the San Francisco-based production and performance team of Jim Greer and Brandon Arnovick, both born in the fall of 1971. Starting their career in the long forgotten year of 1997 with the...
Thoughts: Tuck
posted by Stuart Morrison
Post rockers Thoughts have announced the forthcoming release of their debut single Tuck, showcasing their blend of ethereal guitars, infectious riffs and enigmatic lyrics with a style and swagger similar to many of their...
Alpha Six Romeo: Wan...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Alpha Six Romeo is the promising new indie-electro rock project of singer-songwriter Dennis Bestafka who you may know as the guitarist of formative Bay area dreampop band, Sentinel. We were pleasantly surprised to hear the...
Meeka Kates: Empire ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Melbourne, Australia based Meeka Kates just released a new single. It’s a bouncy indie-electronic dance track about the downfall of civilization, inspired [he tells us] in equal parts by “Mecca”, the...
Alameda: A Violence
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Founded by singer/guitarist Stirling Myles and cellist Jessie Dettweiler, Alameda is a four-piece folk-rock band out of Portland, Oregon – but instead of allying with the obvious of whatever that means, they carry...
Ask For Joy: Pinpric...
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Austin Texax based Ask for Joy release ‘New Private Window’ on Infinitely Recursive Records on 15 March. “This 7-track album maintains a tradition this artist has become well known for, with walls of...
Dom Dahlia: Art is i...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“Alternative artist Dom Dahlia presents his music as an ideal mix of rock and industrial. His blend in tone is reminiscent of a sound that past alt. music was and is known for, but this remark is not to have it seem...
Kye Alfred Hillig: I...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Tacoma Washington based artist Kye Alfred Hillig has returned with a new full length album, ‘Great Falls Memorial Interchange‘, recorded over four days last December up in Seattle and made available for streaming...
Asthmaboy: This City...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Asthmaboy is a Washington based duo made up of Glindon Marten and John Boone, songwriters from Seattle. Today’s featured track is taken from their excellent 2013 ten-song sophomore LP, “Wanderers” which...
Jonas Friddle &...
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“Chicago’s Jonas Friddle & The Majority are a eight piece, band Members are Jonas Friddle, Geoff Dolce, Andrew Green, Anna Jacobson, Andrew Wilkins, Maria McCullough, Bailey Doyle, & Evan...
The Calm Fiasco: She...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Glasgow rockers The Calm Fiasco are set to drop their anticipated sophomore EP The Fear for release on 22nd April 2016 via Chewy Records. The band came together in 2012 after bonding over a shared love of music from both...
Red Morris: Lady Ros...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Maurizio Parisi a.k.a. Red Morris is a Brescia (Italy) based rock guitarist, who ever since he was a child, he’s fascinated by every noise that can sound like a rhythm. As a teenager he studied classic guitar for...
DAODA: Forever
posted by Charles Stepczyk
New York dreampop band DAODA [day-oh-duh] fashions beautiful sun-kissed dreampop, with the track we’ve featured here today “Forever” being self-issued in August of 2014. Despite the fact that we are a few...
Pauline Andrès: Driv...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“Pauline Andrès’ upcoming album, The Heart Breaks, delves into the ache of a broken heart amongst a musical landscape between French Chanson and Bakersfield Outlaw Country after a short stop in Tijuana. The...
Guarded Jungle: Long...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Guarded Jungle began with the objective of writing alternative pop rock music. The songwriting team consists of two, Penny & Ken. Penny has the lead vocal position and handles drums and keyboards. Ken covers all...
People Person Collec...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The People Person Collective are a group of musicians (mostly) from Northern California experimenting with song writing. Each month one person creates an album cover, and bi-monthly albums are released with songs based on...
Vincent Colbert: Bet...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Vincent Colbert grew up in the mountains of Pennsylvania never feeling as though he truly belonged. He then moved to Austin, Texas where he remained until his wife was accepted to Eastern Michigan University. Colbert’s...
Hudson: The Belfry
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Hudson is a folk rock band from Bellingham, Washington specializing in concept albums, each telling a unique story and written and recorded over the course of a musically immersive seven days. In this eleven chapter/song...
Perhapsy: Morning St...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“Perhapsy is the solo project of musician Derek Barber, guitarist and songwriter of Oakland-based groups Bells Atlas and Astronauts, etc. “Active since his college years as a Jazz Studies major at the...
Sick of Sarah: Kick ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Minneapolis indie rock group Sick of Sarah never disappoint, and have easily stood out as one of our favorites since coverage back in 2008 of the title song from the Bittersweet EP via Adamant Records. Today’s...
Black Oil Incinerato...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Mike from Automono has been in touch again to say that his main band Black Oil Incinerator are putting out a full length 11 track cassette on Feb 18th, and we now have the name, its called Built In Space. Its on Academia...
Like, Listen To: Wha...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Provo Utah based prolific singer-songwriter Drew Danburry is back with a new indie three-piece dubbed LIKE, LISTEN TO along with a brand new full length release “East of the Sun, West of the Moon” released this...
Sporting Life: Tsuna...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
San Francisco dream-rock group Sporting Life released their full length LP, Rivalry, in January of which the excellent 2 minute surf-drenched first single, Tsunami, was picked for our feature on the Dose today. The eleven...