Shotgun Opera, won’t get you wrong, and with no mercy will let you hear powerfull rock, played with mastery by the New York based band Serial...

Violens’ forthcoming album, True, finds the Brooklyn three-piece blasting us with a wash of 90s sonic pop drawn from artists like Pale Saints, Cocteau Twins and McCarthy. The album’s first single, “Totally...

Combining fuzzed out pop melodies with the distorted punk attitude of late 1970s New York, Brooklyn’s Beast Make Bomb craft songs informed by twenty-something college life in urban grit. Powerful yet tastefully...

Brian Mackey, New York based singer, has been invited to have his music featured at different movies and compilation albums. The list will include films directed by Oliver Robbins (Poltergeist) or movies with Sean Austin...

As Austin, TX emerges from the dark rubbing its bloodshot eyes and blistered feet today, artist Dana Buoy moves on to Houston to play more shows on his trip back east before his debut album, Summer Bodies, is released around...

2 Hearts and Chemicals is a band comprised of musicians Eli Lhymn (based in Los Angeles) and Stephen Biebel (based in New York City).  The band compose, record, and rehearse all music remotely from these two very different...

Diego Clare, is a 20-year-old singer/songwriter originally from LA, now in New York. He just released his second album, “Even Now (Part Two).” It’s the sequel to his debut record (Part One), which was...

Clinton Hill, Brooklyn four-piece Palomar have returned with a gripping new batch of excellent tracks laced with gorgeous female fronted vocals. Their new album jumps out of the gates this January 24th with the leadoff track...

Following two critically acclaimed EPs, Brooklyn based band Farewell Republic will release their debut LP, Burn the Boats, on February 21, 2012. After a year-long writing/pre-production process, Burn the Boats was tracked...

Stuedabakerbrown has been entertaining fans with a unique blend of rock, indie, and pop for nearly a decade. Since 2001 the band has grown from a Monroe, NY hometown favorite to selling out some of New York City’s most...

Though they are from Cleveland and Seattle, The Fools are a Brooklyn based musical duo by  Jen Tobin (vocals, guitar) and Uchenna Bright (bass). They have been described as sit back and float folk and a foot massage for...

The eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed the author of this post, and yes, it’s a New York band posted by the absentee host of IR: New York. Now we’re not promising anything, but do watch this space boys and...

Jump Into The Gospel is fronted by Louis Epstein, a native New Yorker, whose emphatic vocals and interspersed wailing falsettos, are reminiscent of Robert Smith, David Byrne, and Shaun Ryder. Featuring an assemblage of...

About the New York based singer Corey TuT, Matt Phillp from the DNA Magazine said TuT’s music is brutally honest and his voice is as powerful and hard as it is warm and pure…a bona fide rock star! And James...

After the tail end of October I figured you all could use a palette cleanser to help wash away all the monster laden paranormal music and get us all back into the normal swing of things. Eight more tracks follow today, from...

“Everything is magic ’til you can’t afford the cost; ‘Til you ain’t got eight-hundred bucks to pay the rent; Until you don’t have twenty bucks.” These are some appropriately timed...

The title track from their just released (October 1st) Maxi Single. This was first released on limited edition found cassette, and then more accessibly as a Download (name your price) from BandCamp. We first featured...

From the album War Is Yesterday,we bring today Antihero by the Brooklyn based band Futurist. After checking Futurist’s links, make shure you know Curtis Peel, the lead singer, and his visual art...

Widowspeak is a trio from Brooklyn by way of Tacoma and Chicago, comprised of Molly Hamilton (vocals, guitar), Michael Stasiak (drums), and Rob Thomas (guitar). Stasiak and Hamilton both grew up in the dreary Pacific...

Before New York’s Luke Temple gained attention with his new band Here We Go Magic (via Western Vinyl), he released his first solo CD in late 2005 ‘Hold A Match to a gasoline World’ on Mill Pond Records out...

The Young Things are from New York, and Talking Too Loud is the A-side their new limited edition 7” due out in July. Their debut EP …Is the Killer is a free download from their Web...

Its bands like Brooklyn three piece Field Theory that make me want to live on the East Coast and get swept up in the live music scene. With that in mind, the band actually does have an upcoming East Coast tour date in...

“Los Angeles native John Gold is a singer/songwriter — or, as he puts it, “writer/songsinger” — who should be a poster child for DIY. With a little help from from his friends, his songs have found their way...

Brooklyn’s Baby Teardrops originally formed in 2007, and reunited in 2010 after a bit of a hiatus. All three members were previously involved in other projects that came to a halt once they reunited. “We decided it...

Made::In::Heights is a new project from the Blue Scholars producer Sabzi as well as Kelsey Bulkin on vocals, from the New York area. They’ve got a free EP over at BandCamp which features three full length songs as well...

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart need no introduction to you, loyal fans of Insomnia Radio. Neither they need any introduction to independent music fans or even some mainstream music listeners. They have been in our ears and...

From Brooklyn, Sensual Harassment may be the new heroes for the XXI century dance floor. With haunting voices singing songs, that are no more than anthems, Alpha Draconis is the first album by the trio and is available to...

Brooklyn’s Laura Stevenson was schooled in the traditional music of her grandfather and grandmother (composer of “The Little Drummer Boy” and vocalist for the Benny Goodman Orchestra respectively) from an early...

Withershins is the follow-up LP to Brooklyn/Seattle based band Smoosh’s 2006 release of Free To Stay, released on June 29, 2010. Last years new album was not released on any official record label, but independently...

Yesterday I stumbled on this great band out of Brooklyn via SoundCloud, as they were announced as a featured artist over on the SC Facebook profile. Their bio lists them as making electronic music with shamanic soul vocals...

Alt-country Brooklynites MY COUSIN, THE EMPEROR release their single disc, double EP entitled, THE SUBWAY EPs on March 29, 2011. Next week, they begin a string of shows with Caitlin Cary and Matt Douglas as THE SMALL PONDS....

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...