Mount Fabric are a DIY band from Manchester, who have just released a new single called Books. The band have been around since 2011 when they released two EPs on Hairy Wolf Records ‘Secretly an Astronaut’ and...
Paper Wallpaper: Son...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Paper Wallpaper is the project of Dominic Remmerswaal. Originally from New Zealand, he last lived in Istanbul, now he says “I am aimlessly hitchhiking around Europe and Asia. Home is wherever I find family or friends....
Weathered: Coast
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Weathered is the performance moniker of the Queensland born musician Upile Mkoka, a musical project birthed from the purchase of a guitar in 2010. Moving a few years beyond his bedroom EP project in December 2010 takes us to...
AAA Battery: Tea Tim...
posted by Stuart Morrison
AAA Battery is Joe Maydak on bass, Fred Jeske on guitar and drums, and Canadian pop hero Spookey Ruben on vocals. This long distance relationship of a band – Maydak is based in San Francisco, Jeske in Chicago, and Ruben...
Stone Cold Fox: Seve...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
STONE COLD FOX is a musical project based out of New York founded by self-taught musicians Kevin Olken Henthorn and Ariel Loh in 2011. The new single from earlier this year ‘Seventeen’ has an accompanying video...
Hello Phones: Candy ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Originally conceived in 2011 as a duo comprised of Donna Fran (vocals) and Joe Velour (guitars), New York’s Hello Phones released their first album Get It Together in March 2012. Shortly after, new bandmates Orlando...
CherryTeresa: Unborn...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
To the lucky ones: LA blogger, musician, and self-professed skeptic CherryTeresa has the following excellent piece up on her website featuring some profound spoken word over what sounds like AIR inspired electronic goodness....
Dolomite Minor: Let ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
In recent months, Dolomite Minor have gone from playing small venues around their hometown Southampton, to playing some of this summer’s major UK festivals (including Reading, Leeds and T in the Park) solely based on...
Dream Shake: Buffy
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Formerly called ‘We Are Trees’ the duo is back and named ‘Dream Shake’, having released their debut album this past week on Frenchkiss Records. Check the band out at CMJ several days later this...
Snowmine: Rome
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Brooklyn’s SNOWMINE are back with the first beautiful single of their forthcoming release titled – Dialects. Per their website the album has reportedly been ready for about a year while they shopped around for a...
Midnight Faces: Forn...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Midnight Faces is the L.A.-based (recently relocated from D.C.) duo comprised of multi-instrumentalist Matthew Warn née Matthew Doty. The pair makes an epic noise on the title track from their debut album, out now. We did...
Honeymilk: Light Ent...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
After a handful of brilliant singles, Swedish band HONEYMILK have their debut album “Lean on the Sun” slated for release next month, November 6th. Check out our earlier feature of one of the excellent first...
Coastgaard: Beach 3 ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Brooklyn based Coastgaard recently released their new single “Beach 3 (Ocean Blue)” off their self-titled debut album, and it is today’s Dose. Check out the links below for more music and information. Main...
Emperors: Be Ready W...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Western Australia’s EMPERORS hit New York this month for CMJ, and they’ve got a new album in tow with the big and bright single ‘Be Ready When I Say Go’ from their excellent release ‘Stay...
Blank Maps: Calm
posted by Stuart Morrison
Newcastle , UK band Blank Maps are releasing their new single ‘Lucky Dip’ on 14 October 2013 on Tiny Lights Recordings. The video for the A side is featured below, the B side is today’s Daily Dose. Main...
Wise Girl: Stuck In ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
New York Power pop trio Wise Girl recently released their debut, full-length album ‘You’ll Just Have To Wait’. Today’s Daily Dose is from that. Their just-released single ‘So Broken’ is...
Vincent Vocoder Voic...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
‘The Unbearable Heaviness Of Having’ is a track taken from UK artist Vincent Vocoder Voice’s self-titled debut album out via Sonic Anhedonic on the 18th of November. They have a great description over on...
Otonana Trio: Interr...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Otonana Trio is a three-piece Japanese rock band formed by guitarist Kentaro Saito. The name Otonana Trio roughly translates to “Three Grown-ups” or “Trio de Adults” in broken Japanese. This is from...
FIIG: Bass Drum
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Fiig are a Melbourne based indie pop band with a new single coming out October 29th. The songs are written by singer/songwriters Hannah Petocz and Andrew Jordan and this track has a great high charged feel reminiscent of...
M+A: B Song
posted by Stuart Morrison
A second play on the Network for Italian band M+A. This is from their second album, ‘These Days’, just released worldwide on Monotreme Records. M+A is Michele Ducci, (vocals, instruments) and Alessandro Degli...
Lofine: Lie in White
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Lo Fine is Kevin O’Rourke, an indie rock instrumentalist and singer/songwriter who launched the long-running project in the late 1990’s in Northampton, Massachusetts. Earlier in the year Kevin successfully crowdfunded...
Sand: Clay
posted by Stuart Morrison
During the last few years Glasgow’s North Atlantic Oscillation have been steadily building both their fanbase and their reputation. Now Sam Healy, NAO’s frontman and songwriter, returns with Sand, a new solo...
Trails and Ways: Mtn...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today’s featured single is from last summer’s release by Oakland’s TRAILS AND WAYS. A note about the track from the band: “The song is about a rock climbing trip our singer KBB took last fall with...
Ha Ha Tonka: Colorfu...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Colorful Kids is from the Missouri band’s new Bloodshot Records album ‘Lessons,’ out earlier this week. For those new to the band, they are named after Ha Ha Tonka State Park in Camdenton, Missouri –...
Libel: This is Love
posted by Stuart Morrison
Brooklyn based garage rock revivalists Libel release “This Is Love” off their recently released album Music For Car Commercials, and it’s today’s Dose. BandCamp | Facebook | twitter | Tumblr |...
Policy: In a Huff Wi...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today’s Irish spotlight was a tip off from the fine people over at Fat Cat Records, a nice follow-up to yesterday’s feature out of the Dublin area. Policy are a four piece, also near Dublin who recorded a debut...
CAB#X: Slipstream
posted by Stuart Morrison
CAB#X are a band from Dublin in Ireland, who recorded themselves in an old office in the Dublin suburbs, and released their first album Book of Deeds in 2011, from which today’s Dose is taken. They are currently...
FIGHTs: Beginning
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The new song by Lafayette’s The Formal Institute of Great Hit Tunes (FIGHTs) off their upcoming album ‘Music by Villains’ definitely stands out from the norm. ‘Beginning’ has some flavorful...
The Persian Leaps: S...
posted by Stuart Morrison
The Persian Leaps began as a phrase singer/guitarist Drew Forsberg doodled in a notebook margin in college. He recorded music as The Persian Leaps for years, but until recently, his songs didn’t see the light of day. In...
Ula Ruth: Let Down
posted by Stuart Morrison
Ula Ruth grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Raised Southern Baptist, she found her voice singing in church. She grew up with nothing, and dreamed of becoming something. She left her home at early age with the hopes of...
The Head and the Hea...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Seattle’s The Head and the Heart are about to launch a new LP via Subpop this October 15th entitled ‘Let’s Be Still’. As we have our heads in the sand occasionally we have not played them yet on the...
SPC ECO: Fallen Star...
posted by Stuart Morrison
SPC ECO have just released Fallen Stars, the second single from the forthcoming album Sirens and Satellites. This is a second play on the Dose for SPC ECO (Space Echo) who are a UK duo, Rose Berlin (vox and words) and Dean...