We recently heard Northampton, Mass band DARLINGSIDE’s song Catbird Seat on another blog and realized that we had to immediately look into their catalog, which at the moment consists of a debut EP. Luckily the band...

Brooklyn-based band The Shondes released the latest single from their My Dear One album in November in the form of an EP. “Lines & Hooks +3” contains the title track culled from the band’s second album along with...

Formed at the University of Manchester about five years back, The Answering Machine have their newest effort, LIFELINE coming out Feb. 21, released a few short years after their ’09 debut album Another City, Another...

Over the course of their upcoming EP, “Why We Need Night” (Tricycle), The Union Trade follow the contours of proven terrain and map the outlines of an evolving sound. In moments throughout, the band strips away the epic...

Norton are a portuguese band from Castelo Branco. They have been around for almost ten years, and in these last months we heard a lot about them in Portugal, due to their rock version of Pump Up the Jam. Remember...

The Shanghai features continue this week, climbing toward the Chinese New Year with another indie amalgamation made up of three Canadian foreign nationals from Ottawa as well as Chinese vocalist, Little Punk. A vagabond and...

The Wilderness is a Toronto based experimental rock outfit. Comprising of men-about-town, Lee Piazza (lead vocals), Nate Lyons-Fisher (guitar/synth), Jay Organek (bass), Chris Mason (drums/synth) and Jamie Lefebvre...

ne day way back in 2003, Oklahoma-based singer/songwriter Ryan McNeil and his friend and guitarist Drew Brown combined their love of pawn shop keyboards and DIY pop songs and began cranking out some lovely home recordings for a project called Debate Team. But Drew had another band which happened to go by the name OneRepublic, and in 2007 their popularity exploded with a pair of Top 10 singles. Just as Debate Team was beginning to carve a place in the dense music scene of Los Angeles, OneRepublic's rising fame (and the resulting champagne baths and international tours) put the group on hiatus.

Play It Strange is the third full length album recorded in just over two years since San Francisco’s The Fresh & Onlys inception with previous albums out on Woodsist and Castle Face. This newest album is also the first...

“Steve Cowgill is the lead guitarist and occasional singer of acoustic surf rock favorites Bag of Toys. Fresh from San Francisco, Bag of Toys is a four piece acoustic surf-rock band now based in Wilmington, NC. The...

I garantee: you are not ready to listen to this. London to Tokyo were formed in 2008, in Los Angeles. While they don’t release the best rock n’ roll album, so says Rolling Stone magazine, you will find the free...

Shanghai China’s Rainbow Danger Club recently released an entirely free eight-song effort in late 2010 called The New Atlantis EP – available at the Bandcamp link provided. The four-piece had the distinction...

“Midnight Spin is a five-piece rock outfit from Williamsburg, Brooklyn who bring high-energy guitar rock for the 21st century to the NYC music scene. Formed in late 2008, the band immediately established a sizable...

Jeniferever are from Uppsala, Sweden and produce ambient indie rock/post-rock, sometimes compared to groups like The Appleseed Cast and Sigur Rós. Their name is derived from a 1989 Smashing Pumpkins song of the same...

“Formed from the ashes of Detachment Kit, BRONZE is the brand new musical project created by blood brothers Charlie H. Davis III and Ian Menard. Joined by Chicago percussion mastermind and brass band veteran Jess Birch...

This Wildlife’s album Strike Hard, Young Diamond comes at the heels of their EP of the same name. Confusing? Probably, but these twelve tracks feel like one of the most memorable finds of the entire year. Leading off with...

Sun Airway is a project from ex-A-Sides Patrick Marsceill and Jon Bathmus. After releasing a 4-song EP called ‘Oh, Naoko,’ they released their first full-length, ‘Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier,’ on October...

“Work Drugs is a sedative-wave / smooth-fi group from an abandoned pier on the banks of the Delaware River in beautiful Philadelphia, PA. “Work Drugs is Benjamin Louisiana (more instrumental/less vocal) and...

New York indie pop band Anna Bradley was formed by frontman Kamir Kubar, who apparently lives in Berkeley, CA half of every year. The group indicates that their newest full length release Pavo is a result of six months of...

Portland, Oregon’s Melodic Pop Sweethearts DERBY unveil a long awaited new batch of songs. Coming February 2011! Anyone who’s caught a live Derby show knows the raw and infectious emotion the boys are known to dish...

London based band The Veils have returned with their distinct brand of Kiwi rock on a new EP, due out this late this month on their own label PitchBeast. The forthcoming Troubles of the Brain EP showcases Andrews’ maturing...

Here is another canadian artist. This time from Mount Hope, on the outskirsts of Hamilton, Ontario. Kori Pop’s dbut album is not for those who prefer their music black and white: From the Outskirts is technicolour....

“Billy Cruz” is the first single from the upcoming Metal Mother album, Bonfire Diaries Metal Mother is the musical project of Oakland-based singer-songwriter, Tara Tati. Her debut LP, Bonfire Diaries will be released...

Santa Barbara based band The Little Heroes were named after the sculpture figures drummer Adam Caldwell created for his art school thesis. The four-piece comprised of east coast natives got their start traveling round-trip...

The title track from L.A. band Wake Up Lucid’s new EP to be released Feb 15th. L.A.’s Wake Up Lucid started as a vision of singer/guitarist Ryan Baca’s father, who had passed years earlier. In the dream,...

Helsinki Finland’s Big Wave Riders started their band about 7 months ago, in April of 2010 to be exact. The idea was to make fresh music with some edge and some live garage/punk energy. Also, they didn’t want to...

Adrift is a free track from the Portland Oregon band’s new album Labyrinth FALLEN PARROT is an alternative rock band formed in the summer of 2009 out of Portland, OR. Originally composed of Gordon Ashby (guitar),...

Jack Johnson’s breakthrough album Brushfire Fairytales – an album Johnson self released, indie kids – has been remastered from the original half inch analog master tapes by the legendary Bernie Grundman...

Ryan Weber and Eric Osterman are Eric & Magill. The album also features Kimberly Burke (of Shearwater), Angel Deradoorian (of Dirty Projectors), Ryan Rupperchett (of Faux Fir) and Craig Montoro and John Thomas Robinette...

From the depths of North West London comes a stirring. For the past 6 months the bandits have been in hibernation; writing, recording, mostly sleeping, and are now ready to come back to the warm outdoors and hit the live...

As the follow up to their Hate is Poor EP, Edmonton Alberta’s Wool On Wolves have released the full length album Grey Matter. It was recorded and mixed in their basement rehearsal space in an effort to convey the...

Pop Psychology is the third album by the canadian Dan Bryk. He currently lives in New York. In romantic metaphor, sometimes directly about the music business, or literally even about the music itself, Pop Psychology’s ten...