With 400 000 albums sold in the United States, featuring Circa Survive is not only an honour to us, it is also our obligation to let you know they have a new album. Self-released by the way. The option of self-releasing the...

Bear Mountain is an electro/dance band from Vancouver, B.C that began as the bedroom project of Ian Bevis. After the break-up of an old band, Ian began releasing early demos and remixes on the Internet, and started exploring...

At Sea is a musical collective based in Brooklyn, NY, led by Jason Brody. They make dreamy sounds for dreamers. They will release a full-length follow-up to their debut EP in September 2012. The album is called A New...

Modern Rivals are five friends who have been playing music together since middle school, and whom recently self-released the Sea Legs EP – a promising introduction to their sound. The Sea Legs EP was recorded and...

Sound On Film started as The Stephen Banister Project when Stephen Banister and David Kaufman found some musical tastes in commun between them. They started to work on Strange, to be released this November. The song...

Blonde Summer is a band of Los Angeles natives, led by singer/guitarist Chris Pope. Their sophomore EP, Slow Daze, plunges to new depths, exploring the limits of indie-pop infused California surf-rock, and their warm weather...

Grand Resort is the project of a 20-year old native of the Dominican Republic named Andrés Pichardo, now resident in Brooklyn. Despite the gloomy title of his single Night is Dark, it is uplifting guitar-driven shoegazey...

The Sun is bright today? Is it rainning? You broke up, found a new love? Lost something or gain something? You’re bored with your life? You are happy to live the life you live? You don’t like music? If you do,...

No Can Do is the Vancouver based group Ladyhawk’s third studio album, available on CD/LP/Digital via Triple Crown this coming October. Per the band, No Can Do has no relation to Hall & Oates, Chromeo or Kiwi...

Laetitia Sadier is a founding member of seminal UK/French Post Rock outfit Stereolab. She continues their Musical and Political tradition in her solo work. This is from her second album Silencio....

Paul Starling Shipwrecked Commotion is said as an album to sail, float, skip or dance. We would add, and to enjoy as you wake up with the will to enjoy the day and life. Paul is the one behind all the instruments, voices...

No, we don’t desperate while listening to commercial radio stations. We know some shinning minds are out there creating musical master-pieces, and some of them are not old enough to be admitted at their own concert...

Instrumental Thursday has jumped a day and hits on a Friday via London based musician Matt Stevens. Today’s feature is the lead-off track from his new album Relic that released late 2011. Matt basically uses an...

Something a bit darker than usual today, from Seattle electronic trio Crypts. Fancy is from their debut self-titled full-length release, out in September on Sargent House. There is an excellent video to accompany the track...

ManCub are described as Denver’s new bread of dance music. But because Alex Anderson, producer and multi-instrumentalist behind the name, has so much to give to music, ManCub should not be seen as only a...

Holmes can often be found buried under a mountain of vintage recording gear in his cozy Silverlake, California home studio, cooking up tracks for himself, other artists, television and film. Roy Shakked, under his moniker...

Astronauts, etc. just released a new single, Mystery Colors, which is the first single off their debut EP, Supermelodic Pulp, slated for release on September 8th. The EP will feature a sci-fi music video for each of its five...

New York two-piece Shy Around Strangers are releasing their debut EP on August 28th and this is the record’s dark and intimate second single. This track was featured on IR: New York #16 and we really dig it so...

The dancefloor heroes Sensual Harassment got their hands on Strangers and turned the anthem Shine On You into a a unforgettable song. Two things unusual today for your Daily Dose: 1st we’re featuring a version of a...

The members of Lightning Love would really prefer not to talk about themselves. They’d much rather talk about the important subjects in life: their hometown (Ypsilanti, Michigan) their favorite breakfast (Pop-Tarts and...

Hear Say is from the second album All Day Pass by Austin TX trio Boyfrndz, out in September. All Day Pass will be available as a self-release on CD and download on September 11th, 2012 and LP via Spora Records shortly...

They promisse things are getting better. So if you think Eye Contact brought the best ray of Sun to your Summer, you should know Los Elk are starting recordings for their debut album in September. Can you wait? Neither do...

Inspired by emotional turmoil, rebirth, and Stephen King’s “Dark Tower”, I Was Totally Destroying It return with a brand new album! Immediately following the release of Preludes in April 2011, IWTDI...

“Something To Love” b/w “Wind Me Up” is the second in Dressy Bessy’s “Summer Singles” series. As promised, Denver-based indie rock band Dressy Bessy is back with the second installment of its “Summer...

Today’s song may sound like it’s by a band of guys with experience, who treat music and their role on the song with excellence due their age and time playing. Or, guys who couldn’t do anything else then...

Hollywood College is Dave Lowensohn and Misha Chellam’s second and newest album. Recorded over four weeks in the shadow of the Coney Island ferris wheel, Speechwriters LLC once again teamed up with producer Adam Richman...

Another Instrumental Thursday on The Dose. Sirona Records have just re-released Las Vegas based Once Were Ghosts‘ 2009 album Transient Silence as a free download. Their more recent material is available from their...

Start off your week with a loud Dose of Punky Rock n Roll from Royals. Based in Exeter in the UK, they have an EP out, recorded with producer Jag Jago (The Maccabees,The Xcerts) in Brighton, available from...

Electronic music with real drums? Why not? Don’t forget to do it with mestry. Night Surgeon’s self titled E.P. was released on June 26, Too Dark Records). The six track E.P. was produced and recorded by Gabriel...

What turns a great song into a perfect and superb track? I mainly say to my students: honesty, reality and do not complicate if not needed. And in the end, a sensation that the song won’t need nothing more, still you...

State Shirt is Ethan Tufts, a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist that writes and records all of his music in a tiny bedroom studio, filled with a myriad of worn instruments and cheap electronics. The SongFight website...

One of our favourite labels, Western Vinyl has recently added today’s band Lymbyc Systym to its roster, and is releasing their album Symbolyst in September. The band will tour with Zammuto (Nick Zammuto of The Books)...