Brooklyn based -School of Seven Bells- are releasing a deluxe edition of their debut album, Alpinisms, with 9 bonus tracks on October 13th. The bonus tracks include alternate versions, live cuts, demos and new mixes. The...
Letting Up Despite G...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
LA based favorites, Letting Up Despite Great Faults are set to release their debut, self-titled LP this month. It’s been a full three years since the release of Movement, an intimate collection of intricate and...
AMPed New Music Week...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
AMPed: Show #199 This week’s host: Dave from The Bugcast Show: The Bugcast Song: Get On The Bus (Q*Ball) Show: Insomnia Radio Song: Black Wax (Dananananaykroyd) Show: Ourobouros Podcast Song: House Of Frauds (Dead...
Slaraffenland: Long ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Slaraffenland is Danish for “the land of milk and honey”. Based in Copenhagen, Slaraffenland found its final formation in 2002: Christian Taagehøj, Mike Taagehøj, Bjørn Heebøll, Niklas Antonson and Jeppe Skjold. They...
[Mixtape] Fresno: A ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Step right up! We’ve got eighteen tracks from eighteen different indie artists hailing from the Central Valley region of California, with a regional bullseye on the city of Fresno – presented in the traditional...
The Pains of Being P...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Come Saturday is the newest single from Brooklyn based “The Pains of Being Pure at Heart”, and appears on their self titled debut album – out now on Slumberland Records (US) and Fortuna Pop (UK) in both...
AMPed New Music Week...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
AMPED: Show #198 This week’s host: Michael from Mikey Pod Show: Insomnia Radio: The SoCal Sessions Song: Come Alive (Still Time) Show: Ourobouros Podcast Song: Bed Of Nails (Pluto Revolts) Show: The DarkCompass...
Pablo: Hey Luci
posted by Charles Stepczyk
New York indie group Pablo recently broke out with their long awaited follow up to the beloved debut “Half The Time” “Long nights will come along, I’ve gotten to give in a bit” are lyrics that help to sum...
Vivian Darkbloom: Co...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Vivian Darkbloom is a pseudonym for the novelist Vladimir Nabokov, a writer who loved controversy, intrigue, and continually thwarting the expectations of his readers. The band borrowed this name in homage to Nabokov (whom...
The Sleepover Disast...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
There is something to be said about dedication and hard work and The Sleepover Disaster are the embodiment of such a feat. The Fresno, California-based three piece have hit their stride with their first nationally...
IR: The SoCal Sessio...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Per local musician Brian Kenney Fresno’s mission statement, the holy triumvirate of activities in the Central California city of Fresno are: car theft, methlabs and chop shops. While you often hear the area...
Bent By Elephants: V...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Bent By Elephants are a 7 piece folk rock band stationed in Montreal, linking patch-work improv pieces into rhythmic pop-folk songs. Luke Fowlie and vocalist Chesley Walsh began BBE in the Spring of 2008. After a year of...
Blitzen Trapper: Bla...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
As its title would lead one to believe, the Black River Killer EP contains the disturbing and great song “Black River Killer” from Blitzen Trapper’s excellent Sept. ‘08 full-length album Furr. What is perhaps...
The Wooden Sky: Some...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Hot off of their Bedrooms and Backstreets Tour and the Canadian release of their second album “If I Don’t Come Home You’ll Know I’m Gone”, Toronto-based outfit The Wooden Sky is excited to be hitting the...
IR SoCal Presents: F...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today we are celebrating the release of the latest album on Secretly Canadian Records by LA indie band Foreign Born, who we first played as part of our SXSW showcase compilation in 2008. The first track you will be hearing,...
Big Thing on Mars: I...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Big Thing on Mars are a four-piece indie rock group from Prince Edward, British Colombia in Canada. I initially had heard this track on Garageband and thought it would be fun to feature here at the Dose. The group...
Hallelujah the Hills...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Hallelujah the Hills was born in 2005 out of the ashes of the cult Boston band The Stairs. On the night of their final performance Ryan Walsh (Vox, Guitar) and Eric Meyer (Drums) announced that they would start a new band,...
So Many Dynamos: New...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
How could I not feature a band here on the Daily Dose who recently broke down in Blythe, California while out on tour? This is what happened to St. Louis band SO MANY DYNAMOS in the last few months as per their most recent...
Ciao Transizta: Go O...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Copenhagen Denmark’s Ciao Transizta blends period American indie with the more traditional surf in a distinctive cocktail of straightforward monotone grooves, characteristic vocals and guitar-riffs fizzling of...
Edward Sharpe &...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros is a sizable indie folk-revival formed by Alex Ebert of Los Angeles electro-rock group ImaRobot, an endeavour that started to take shape after the musicians separated from Virgin...
The Builders and the...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Ryan Sollee: “I moved to Portland in the fall of 2003 from Alaska with my band at the time, The Born Losers, which played rockandroll/punk. After playing a ton of shows and a bit of touring with a lot of expectations, it...
IR SoCal Welcomes: B...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Betty and the Werewolves are three girls and one boy from London who whoop and howl through the night as sweetly sung melodies collide with glitter-struck punk guitars. Taking inspiration from luminary lycanthropes Virginia...
Good Old War: Coney ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Good Old War, an indie folk-rock band from Pennsylvania, is made up of Keith Goodwin, Daniel Schwartz, and Tim Arnold. The band was started after Days Away (former band of Keith and Tim) went on hiatus; Schwartz previously...
Lost in the Trees: F...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Lost in the Trees is a folk orchestra from Chapel Hill NC, led by composer/songwriter Ari Picker. Picker began writing songs in his bedroom at age 15 and quickly went on to front several indie pop bands during his teenage...
Insomnia Radio: Doub...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today’s Double Shot pinpoints two sets of musical roots spread out over a few separate areas of Northern California, and is partially inspired by a creative commons poem by Mill Valley, CA resident Peter...
Great Bloomers: Catc...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Great Bloomers was formed when childhood pals Lowell Sostomi and Nate Hindle moved to Toronto and met Andrew Kekewich. The trio quickly formed a strong friendship based upon similar record collections— all three valued...
Jets Under Fire: Lik...
posted by Jason Evangelho
Here’s a band from Austin, TX that is not only tech savvy (a necessary trait for ALL indie bands now) but creates incredible music and gives it away for free, including their two releases EP1 and EP2. There’s no...
Henry Homesweet: Oki...
posted by Jason Evangelho
I’m on a retro video game kick lately, and when I stumbled across this artist @ The Sixtyone, I was hooked. Here’s his bio: Henry Homesweet is a music project to express all of my creativity. I work with lots of...
Math the Band: Why D...
posted by Jason Evangelho
“More expensive Casio equipment than Devo” – CMJ Math the Band is equal parts Atom and His Package and Andrew WK. Sampled casio sk1 drums, paired with solid square waves and more BPMs than can possibly be...
The Papertiger Sound...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The Papertiger Sound is a transatlantic project created in 2006 by Dan Gelder who is from England’s Eastern shore. Hailing from the Eastern shores of Canada, Kerstin Wilson later joined when both Dan and Kerstin were...
The OaKs: My Father&...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
In honor of our fathers past and present today, we are providing a track by one of the friends to the network – Orlando band, The OaKs. Here’s a bit of back story on their previous release, Our Fathers and the...
Hollands: Coughing B...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The combination of rock, punk, and folk never sounded so sweet as the Brooklyn duo, Hollands, have accomplished on their debut EP, Faces released last fall. Consisting of multi-instrumentalist John-Paul Norpoth (formally of...