It all started in Parkdale, a west-end neighbourhood of Toronto. Kat Burns of former band Forest City Lovers started exploring new sounds and songwriting styles, which led to a collaboration with longtime friend and producer...
The 1957 Tail-Fin Fi...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“In a time where you can purchase The Beach Boys’ Smile at an Esso garage or order everything The Beatles have ever done (including a pdf of Ringo Starr’s dental records) from iTunes, ‘Cruise Control’ by The...
FLASH/LIGHTS: Scarve...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Here’s one last quality single to celebrate the end of 2013, coming from Colorado’s FLASH/LIGHTS, a group featuring a rotating cast of Denver musicians and fronted by vocalist/producer Ethan Converse. This new...
Antique Pony: Grand ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Antique Pony are a band from Glasgow (Scotland, UK) who have released their new album Pony earlier in December. It is offered on a ‘name your price’ basis at the BandCamp link below, or as a zip file of the 11...
Take Berlin: Sebasti...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Street Art: Take Berlin rescues discarded tape deck from the trash to record basic tracks for its ethereal, soulful “Lionize” debut EP. The Brooklyn and Berlin-based duo Take Berlin came together when, in the winter of...
Honeymilk: Sea to Sh...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Stockholm Sweden’s HONEYMILK have just released their debut album “Lean on the Sun” this past 25th of November after recording in July in a house outside of Stockholm for eight days and nights. We are...
Ummagma: Photographe...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Ummagma is Shauna McLarnon (a Canadian) and Alexx Kretov (from Ukraine). Today’s Dose is from their debut album “Antigravity”. “Ummagma brings an extraordinary soundtrack of reverie for both...
Canary Islands: Pame...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Malmö Sweden indie pop five-piece CANARY ISLANDS entered Studio Möllan in May this year to record three new songs. The result was released on the 20th of November as one long sound file the band jokingly call a...
Jordan Reyne: Song f...
posted by Stuart Morrison
We came across this via AMP (The Association of Music Podcasting). Senior AMP member Peter Clitheroe of the Suffolk and Cool Podcast recommended it, describing the song: “It’s beautiful, almost a carol, but about...
Tideland: Get Lost
posted by Stuart Morrison
“The small sleepy town of Sterling VA has a storied history in underground DIY punk and hardcore. Hailing from the ashes of such revered bands as pg.99, Sail, and Pizza, Tideland has developed upon the sound of their...
Hector Comancho: Pep...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Norman Oklahoma based auto-dealer Fowler VW is back with their third annual holiday compilation, ‘A Blackwatch Christmas, Vol III (Holly-Tonk & Jingle Beats). Beings fans of the last past two offerings here we...
Eight to Infinity: C...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
We’ve got a handful of holiday themed tracks that will be intermixed in the feed over the next several days starting with one of the excellent finds from the Small Bear Records Compilation, “Enter Snowman”,...
Waterstrider: Twice
posted by Stuart Morrison
From Oakland, CA, Waterstrider just released a new cover of Little Dragon’s “Twice” This is their first release in a year and a half (since the release of “Wind-Fed Fire”) and they expect to be...
The Moth & The M...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Olive Grove Records out of Scotland recently released a free sampler of music at the end of October featuring about fourteen independent artists they’ve had the pleasure to issue releases from – like Woodenbox,...
The Night: Medicate ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
‘I Am and Say’ is The Night’s first EP release. It will be officially available on the 23rd December, 2013. We featured Australian band The Night last year, check that out here. They also released the...
Noyo Mathis: Heisenb...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Formed in late 2011 in the South Coast of England, Noyo Mathis released their debut EP, Tethers, in mid-2012 and have gone on to support great groups in their live shows like Minus the Bear and This Town Needs Guns...
The Backyard Committ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Improvisational roots rock band The Backyard Committee released their new single “Festival”, the title track off their recently released sophomore album. Led by industry veteran Mike Sembos, The Backyard Committee is a...
Couch: College Girls
posted by Stuart Morrison
From their album, ‘Johnny West Is Missing’. “Couch are a Norwich based Pop-Punk band, formed in early 2012. They quickly recorded a four track demo and starting playing shows in the local area, making an...
Minor Wiley: See Two
posted by Charles Stepczyk
After another day of diving headfirst into Soundcloud, I emerged in Atlanta, Georgia listening to the three-piece indie surfgazing sounds of MINOR WILEY, a group who released their debut ‘Relatives’ EP in early...
Kristin Hoffmann: Le...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From the upcoming Kristin Hoffmann remix album, “The Human Compass: New Directions” “Bringing a modern edge and eclectic spin to her classical training, multi-faceted, multi-talented musician, composer,...
Advent Horizon: Some...
posted by Stuart Morrison
We featured Advent Horizon before and they just got back in touch with a couple more tracks from their album Immured, now available on iTunes. They have a new album out soon. Bio: Advent Horizon is a contemporary hybrid of...
The Losers: She Was ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
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...
North Station: Clean...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From Ufa in Russia, North Station describe themselves as an Indie funk/rock band. Their Bio reads: “There’s nothing really much to say about the band. We just started out. And I don’t believe that musicians...
Beta Blocker and the...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Beta Blocker and the Body Clock (BBATBC in shortened form), are lo-fi scuzz pop from Oxford, England whom we thankfully ran across during our forays deep into the cloud. Today’s featured track was apparently released...
Qiet: The Indie Song
posted by Stuart Morrison
Based in Huntington WV, Qiet is the artistic passion of Christopher Vincent, with co-conspirators James Maddox, Alasha Al-Qudwah, Lacey Hazel, Russell Snyder, Max Venoy and Raphael Godfrey, and they just released their new...
PT Walkley: Sirens
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Manhattan-based artist PT Walkley has a new album on the way early in 2014, but outside of this new project he is also an accomplished composer for film and television, having picked up the love for certain sounds early via...
Cairo Fire: Bold ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Cairo Fire formed from Side by Side (who we featured before) in Charlotte, NC. They just released their debut single “Bold & Beautiful”. They will be finishing an EP’s worth of material this year and...
Christian & The ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Day as #1 is the 2nd single from CHRISTIAN & THE 2120’s new album “Different Strokes/Different Folks”. Christian Smedström is always on the lookout for new songs, constantly with a notebook around and...
Foreign Television: ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
‘Foreign Television’ is a one-man-band from Wales (UK), currently based in Moscow, Russia. All songs are written and recorded by Francis Allen. The project was born in 2011 when Allen, who had previously recorded...
The Torn: Take It
posted by Stuart Morrison
The Torn are from Doncaster in the UK. After producing their first music videos for the singles Tissue Of Lies and A Thousand Leeches [see below], the band are about to release their next single Take It, a demo of it is...
Boom Forest: Clean C...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Nashville, TN based artist (via Baraboo, WI) John Paul Roney has recently released one of the best albums this year, a nine track self-titled debut that came out Nov. 22nd. We recently caught wind of one of his messages via...
Francobollo: We̵...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Adventuring their way across Europe these southbound Swedes now call Finsbury Park, London their spiritual home. After releasing two EPs and a couple of great self-produced videos (Basketball and I Found a Bike Today),...