After the first two Skint & Demoralised albums, Love And Other Catastrophes and This Morning Life, the Wakefield UK band has returned with When Saturday Comes, the first single from the forthcoming third S&D album. ...
The Night Marchers: ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
All Hits is from The Night Marchers LP Allez Allez out January 22, 2013 on Swami Records. The Night Marchers consist of ¾ Hot Snakes with John Reis, Gar Wood and JSinclair, accompanied by Thomas Kistos. From front to back...
The Holiday Crowd: S...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Use ’em up if you got ’em. Today’s feature is from Toronto band, The Holiday Crowd. Lead vocalist Imran Haniff had this to say about their new LP, Over the Bluffs: “The whole mood of the record has...
Queued Up: Nine Dece...
posted by Rodrigo
Here is something you never read about music: caffeinated rock n’ roll. But, don’t use just a regular coffee. Queued Up is a 4-piece power pop group hailing from Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. They call their music...
K-X-P: Melody
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Here is the first single from the Finland trio K-X-P, off their new album titled “II” which will be out this coming February via Manimal and Melodic UK. Enjoy, and keep spreading the letters around. [Via...
Australasia: Antenna
posted by Stuart Morrison
AUSTRALASIA is a childhood spent listening to Ennio Morricone’s soundtracks; a youth on the sharp edge of the underground, extreme metal scene; a whole life sunk into the Post-rock molten wax with a strong fascination...
Meklit Hadero & ...
posted by Rodrigo
A soul record, certainly. A project born of a shared feel for that idiom’s sounds. But not a suite of songs by its bold-faced names (well, maybe a couple – they couldn’t lay off that Sam classic, or from...
Pinact: Into the One
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Pinact are my new favorite gratuitously-noisy and mind-spinningly fast two-piece based in Glasgow, Scotland; basically high school friends [Corrie Gillie and Lewis Reynolds] putting together some really great...
Bear Cavalry: Aubrey...
posted by Rodrigo
Bear Cavalry, a rapidly emerging 4 piece from the sleepy town of Gosport on the south coast, are no strangers to making waves (…) it looks like a trend set to continue. (press release) We’re listening to Puryss,...
Sambassadeur: Memori...
posted by Rodrigo
The Swedish Gothenburg foursome Sambassadeur is back with the first production since the critically acclaimed album European (2010). The new single Memories is flirting with a contemporary Serge Gainsbourg and is fully...
Souljunky: Chinese T...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Chicago-based five piece Souljunky just released a full length album titled I Found Your Dream. This follows the release of their EP Here and Now in 2011. Souljunky are a group of musicians who have wandered far and wide to...
Zulu Winter: Bitter ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
London five piece Zulu Winter recently released their album ‘Language’ via Toronto label Arts & Crafts. The group had originally signed to to Play It Again Sam in the UK, a part of PIAS Entertainment Group....
All India Radio: Don...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Earlier this year Australian band All India Radio released their latest album Red Shadow Landing. To follow that they just released a free EP with the first track from the album, featured today, with three other rare tracks....
Stockholm: Don’...
posted by Rodrigo
When we asked wich song could we post, Chris Arter (front-man, now full time keyboarder for the band) told us “you decide”. And we went for Don’t Stop Now. Why? Because we believe this is the track that...
Rogue Valley: Rose F...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Todays feature comes from the Minneapolis based band Rogue Valley, notably the lead-off track from the second album “The Bookseller’s House”, part of their four album seasonally themed catalog. All of...
Drained Glory: Termi...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From New England (possibly Enfield, CT if you believe Urban Dictionary) Drained Glory recently released their new e.p “Nothing Left to Lose” and this is off it. They say “We’re a simple band with a...
The MiCKS: Dancing f...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Coming out of Jersey City, NJ, three-piece garage roots rock band The MiCKS are carving out an unflinching foothold beyond the abounding vagueness of modern music. Founded by brothers Matt (singer/songwriter/guitarist) and...
Saint Motel: Benny G...
posted by Rodrigo
(…) it was at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles, in his darkest hour, when his band was nearly broke, that they finally hit and Benny became the King of Swing. What could have been the end turned out to be just...
The Sweet Serenades:...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Its been about three years since the last time we’ve featured Swedish band The Sweet Serenades and their debut, “Balcony Cigarettes”. The band is Martin Nordvall and Mathias Näslund, childhood friends who...
Foxtails Brigade: Th...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Foxtails Brigade just dropped a new single called “The Unloved”, the first from their new album Time Is Passed, which was released this week. The song is an Eleanor-Rigby-esque look at the lonely and forsaken,...
hunters.: ft. lee, v...
posted by Rodrigo
I was trying to find the best words to introduce you to hunters., but looking at their description on Facebook, I had nothing left to say. hunters. sounds like: pick a word from the first column and pair it with one from...
Phonolux: Control
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Local San Antonio indie rock band Phonolux released their newest ‘Nashville Fires’ this past April, three years after their debut self-titled album in 2009. They describe it as a vintage sound mixed with a...
Inherit The Stars: W...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“Breaking out onto the music scene with a style that’s completely their own, Sheffield [UK] born and bred quartet Inherit The Stars are an explosion of sound that should not be missed. With all four members...
Rainbow Danger Club:...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Shanghai, China based band RDC released their third studio album, the ‘In the Cellar’ EP earlier last week on November 19th. It is a small taste of a brand new album coming in 2013, and as we also experienced,...
Kassy Key & the ...
posted by Rodrigo
The music coming from Austin’s Kassy Key & the Raindogs is so absorbing that is impossible to be indeferent. Very dense and consistent textures. Formed after a Tom Waits failed tribute band, The Raindogs had the...
Iko: Kites
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Our feature today are a duo from Exeter, Devon, UK – Kieran and Neil, also known as Iko. They are one of the unknown bands chosen to feature a song on the new Twilight Soundtrack, and are celebrating by releasing the...
Psychic Twin: Gonna ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“Two and a half years ago, Erin Fein began to pen a series of songs that would become the music of Psychic Twin. These songs emerged as intensely personal, nervously rhythmic, and indebted to the ‘80s new-wave of her...
Honeymilk: It Might ...
posted by Rodrigo
Our friend birds in Sweden, have another astounding release. It’s all about longing for something else, a feeling that the grass is always greener on the other side. Whether that’s true or not is not really that...
Sleep Maps: Horror I...
posted by Stuart Morrison
NYC based Sleep Maps (the project of Ben Kaplan) released their EP Medals last week, and this is the bonus track on the album. Check out the video for the opening track The Final Weapon below. And check out the powerful...
Black Bird White Sky...
posted by Rodrigo
Black Bird White Sky are an electronica-rock duo that combines driving glitchy dance beats and soaring vocal melodies with the dark, complex backdrop of catchy synth hooks and guitar riffs. Their latest release, The Fall,...
City Brat: Yeah It...
posted by Rodrigo
City Brat, a world electro indie duo from Bushwick, Brooklyn. The band consists of Jason Grad (Vocals, Guitars, Synths) and Alex Fippinger (Drums). Mixing different music genres, and influenced by various world musical...
The Longwalls: Big M...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
For their latest 8-song EP Kowloon, Boston based band, The Longwalls found inspiration in the ancient Chinese city from which the record was named. In Hong Kong there was once a walled city, Kowloon. An ungoverned 6-acre...