Acclaimed Portland, Oregon rock quintet Blitzen Trapper released their newest effort last year on October 2 via Lojinx in Europe and Vagrant in the US. On the newest studio effort the group’s years of experimentation...
Alameda: A Violence
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Founded by singer/guitarist Stirling Myles and cellist Jessie Dettweiler, Alameda is a four-piece folk-rock band out of Portland, Oregon – but instead of allying with the obvious of whatever that means, they carry...
Martinibomb: Dizzy k...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Martinibomb are a duo from Portland, Oregon who have been realeasing some very creative songs for at least the last five or more years, as we recall always being inspired by their sampling while listening to a variety of...
The Underscore Orkes...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Following yesterday’s great eclectic mix we thought we’d continue in the same vein and bring you an excellent track Portland Oregon based group The Underscore Orkestra. They have been touring all over the US,...
Kye Alfred Hillig: W...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Kye Alfred Hillig’s new album ‘The Buddist’ has just released digitally earlier in the month, with a CD being issued on 9/9. For those who like to lovingly admire a larger scale version of the artwork and...
Christopher Reyne: G...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Christopher Reyne is an indie singer/songwriter based in Portland, Oregon. Last month he released his debut solo album A Stranger at the Wheel digitally, and it will be available on vinyl August 6th via his Web Site...
Sallie Ford & Th...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Portland, Oregon group, Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside’s newest record Untamed Beast (February 19, 2013) is the follow up to 2011’s Dirty Radio. They recorded the album’s 11 tracks with Adam Landry and...
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...
Laura Gibson: La Gra...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Yeah, you might have heard this excellent single from Barsuk earlier in the year for a quickie on NPR, but I though it could use an appropriate witching appearance in October. I think this excellent song has flipped the...
The Helio Sequence: ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Negotiations is fifth full-length album written, recorded, and produced by The Helio Sequence, put together in a new studio setting. This collection of shimmering, reverb-heavy songs is a meditation on those inner dialogues...
Speechwriters LLC: S...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
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...
Night Surgeon: You a...
posted by Rodrigo
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...
Insomnia Radio #181:...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
What’s this unexpected package you may ask? Today brings the 181st full length episode of Insomnia Radio, with a tribute to the promotional wonders of Boston’s MJ Epstein Memorial Library as our representative...
Sam Densmore: She...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Portland, Oregon singer/songwriter and music producer, Sam Densmore, has been a musician his whole life, teaching himself guitar and eventually earning a BA degree in music composition in 1996. He started out playing in...
The Ascetic Junkies:...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Kali Giaritta and Matt Harmon, about half of the Portland group The Ascetic Junkies will be on a ambitious Summer tour over the next month or two, starting off June 8th in California, then heading to Idaho, and Washington...
Insomnia Radio #180
posted by Rodrigo
Rodrigo de Sá hosts from the Azores islands, Portugal, the 180th edition of our main show. This show includes only artists that submitted their music to us. We must say thank you to all of them, as the quality of their...
AU: Solid Gold
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Luke Wyland and Dana Valatka, the Portland, Oregon-based duo known as AU, embody remarkable, frantic energy. They’ve just released their third album, in early April on Hometapes (and on The Leaf Label in Europe); AU is...
Dana Buoy: Call to B...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
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...
Jared Mees & The...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Despite its title, Only Good Thoughts Can Stay is not an anthem for blind faith in simple pleasures. Pairing sometimes dark lyrical matter with uptempo major-chord progressions, the newest album from Portland, Oregon’s...
Typhoon: The Honest ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Portland indie orchestra Typhoon turned many a critical head in 2010 after releasing their epic Hunger and Thirst on Tender Loving Empire, and have returned rather quickly with a new release. With 2 violins, 2 trumpets, 2...
Empty Space Orchestr...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“Empty Space Orchestra certainly knows how to fill a room. The Bend, OR quintet of impeccable musicians crafts a symphonic, melodic sound that seamlessly weaves together elements of space rock, prog-metal, noir jazz,...
Mnemonic Sounds: Kee...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Portland’s Mnemonic Sounds released their debut album, Muscle Memories in July 2010. Since then, the band, founded by Peter Suk and Megan Ouchida, has achieved a significant degree of success in a short period of time....
Hello Morning: The F...
posted by Stuart Morrison
We first featured Hello Morning on the Daily Dose in March last year, when they released their first EP. Since then they have recorded a full length album called A Fiction which has just been released, and was launched in...
Pancake Breakfast: T...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Portland, Oregon’s Pancake Breakfast to release a hootenanny of a debut record, revealing an exploration into baroque-pop truck stop goodness – OCTOBER 19th! Times are hard. Folks want to see and hear something...
Y La Bamba: Juniper
posted by Charles Stepczyk
With Y LA BAMBA, Luzelena Mendoza draws from both her strict Catholic upbringing as an only daughter of a Mexican immigrant and a debilitating illness that led her to fall away from her faith, to create what LA Weekly calls...
Laura Veirs: July Fl...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Laura Veirs grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she often spent summers camping with her family, which gave her much of her songwriting inspiration. Veirs has said that she didn’t seriously listen to music...
Mimicking Birds: She...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Summer will be arriving in a few weeks in the US and some of you coastal denizens and vacationers will be returning home from the beach, discovering that you couldn’t quite scrape the remnants of that washed up stray...
Mimicking Birds: Riv...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Portland Oregon’s Mimicking Birds has their first official album out online – and as of March 9th, is now obtainable in stores. Today we delve back into some of the home recordings of Nate Lacy, particularly...
Typhoon: Starting Ov...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Portland’s Kyle Morton sings the first line of Typhoon’s Hunger & Thirst, “I’ve started a new beginning… suspiciously like the old one, only this time, I’m ready”, with the...
Archeology: White Wa...
posted by Jason Evangelho
When Jason Davis and Daniel Walker met at an archaeological research site in Eastern Washington, little did they know how strikingly similar the paths that led to their convergence were. Both endured childhoods spent...
Restruct: Rain to Sn...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From their self-titled EP Biography 1. Serving or designed to destroy. To destroy intentionally. 2. to do away with or cause the undoing of. Just the opposite of “destruct,” the term and band name RESTRUCT. Brought...
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...