After settling in Somerville, MA, following a path of possibly dead-ending jobs near her roots in NYC, Abbie Barrett decidedly embraced her love for music. Living in a one-bedroom apartment that her friends refer to as...
Tango in the Attic: ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today’s feature is a free track from the debut album “Bank Place Locomotive Society” from Glenrothes, Scotland four piece Tango in the Attic, the album having been released back in July 12th 2010 via...
Ed Tullett: Oxblood ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The Stop the Car remix of Oxblood comes off of the late 2013 remix EP put out by Brighton, UK artist Ed Tullett. In this EP he re-imagines his single with five wholly different versions. This specific version definitely...
The Tallest Tree: Bo...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The Tallest Tree is a new collaborative project by Dawn from Dundas, Ontario and Armando out of Mexico City. It was when Armando’s band The Oats was playing in Canada that the two met and fell in love, following which...
Get Inuit: Cutie Pie...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Based off a few well-placed recommendations from bands in Britain, we ran across the following exceptional single from Sittingbourne, UK band, GET INUIT. According to the small bio on their site they make dirty, surf...
The Gorgeous Chans: ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
San Sebastian comes from the second EP by Nottingham UK eight-piece, The Gorgeous Chans. They initially made this great song available for free download starting in late 2013 and we luckily stumbled across it while...
Circle: We Can Play
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Enmore Australia rock group Circle have been around since 2005, putting out music described along the lines of alternative, indie rock, indie pop, synth-pop and on occasion, electronic. Their website says that they’ve...
Dream Boat: Escape
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Athens, Georgia based psychedelic indie pop group DREAM BOAT is about to release their second album, THE ROSE EXPLODES on September 16th via Cloud Recordings + ARROWHAWK. We invite you to take a listen to one of the first...
Bonnie & The Ban...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The Lost Ark Studio recently released the first single from their newest Studio Compilation – Vol. 09: “You Are Rebellious and Ungrateful of My Love” by San Francisco’s Bonnie & The Bang Bang, who...
Flynn & Collins:...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Flynn & Collins is a Chicago indie pop project which looks to have formed in 2013, and who recently released the excellent seven song EP, Waves, officially out about a week ago on June 23rd. We recently ran across a...
Cola Koala: My Soul ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Cola Koala is an electronic music project by Russian musician and sound producer Anton Kolesnikov, combining sampling and collaborations with different vocalists. The collaborative project has apparently existed for over...
Be Calm Honcho: Step...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The debut album ‘Honcho Dreams‘ from San Francisco’s BE CALM HONCHO just released on Crossbill Records on June 24th, the effort being recorded at The Panoramic House this past August, 2013. The Bay area...
Spaceship Days: Hear...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Durham, North Carolina’s Spaceship Days are on the verge of releasing their new EP “Saving the Universe” in just a few short days on July 1st and it should hit pretty hard, if today’s featured track...
Leo Stannard: Eliza
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Eliza is the first track from the upcoming Notions EP from Leicester’s Leo Stannard, releasing on the 4th of August (and which they are taking preorders for soon). Tracks on the forthcoming release are as follows: 1....
Kyowa: The Ends of t...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
“Will you still want me?” is the pervasive smoldering question which repeats through a good portion of the slowly building and deeply evocative piece, The Ends of the Earth, by Nashville artist, KYOWA. Stephanie...
Kye Alfred Hillig: U...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Its time for a change for Tacoma, Washington based singer-songwriter Kye Alfred Hillig. Apparently his last two records have drawn heavy from roots, folk and Americana but as a songwriter Hillig felt it was time for a...
New God: Firework
posted by Charles Stepczyk
In the spring of 2013, Baltimore-based art-pop band New God, lead by brothers Kenny and Curt Tompkins, began crafting songs for their sophomore LP, Firework. Sessions continued in Baltimore throughout the summer of 2013,...
H.M. Hammarin: It Be...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Gothenburg Sweden indie artist H.M. Hammarin has just released what appears to be his newest single, ‘It Began Again’ which I am thoroughly enjoying, partially due to some similarities to a favorite artist, Dave...
3&O: Everything ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today’s feature is from 3&O, a NH, Mass, and soon to be California based group, apparently born out of the posting of a Reddit ad seeking a vocalist. Since this fortuitous meeting of said vocalist, and after the...
Silent Rider: Rave L...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Brooklyn-based electronic downtempo trio Silent Rider are on the verge of releasing the EP “Rave Love”, out July 29th. The first single and title track is the excellent ‘Rave Love’, an outstanding...
Mano’s Daughte...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Mano’s Daughter is an electronic three-piece synth band based in London UK with the lineup of Sarah Carter (Vocals), Matthias Garrick (Synths, programming) and Dan See (Drums). They are stated to be a mixture of Polica,...
Johanna Samuels: For...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
25-year-old Johanna Samuels is a native New Yorker who grew up in Los Angeles, where from a young age she sang in school choirs and obsessively learned to play the songs of her musical heroes by ear. In early spring of 2012...
Sleepwalk Parade: Ma...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Yes, another day on the search functionality of Twitter, and another excellent stumble and nosedive into some most excellent indie pop and rock. This time our featured band, SLEEPWALK PARADE is from Rochester, New York, the...
Algernon Doll: Suici...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Algernon Doll release their third album, Omphalic, via Struggletown Records on 30th June 2014. Omphalic sees Algernon Doll break out from his one man band persona as he continues to hone and perfect an alternative guitar...
Way Yes: Get Healed ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
It’s high time we showcased another favorite from last year’s debut LP release via Columbus Ohio based band – WAY YES. Today we are happy to feature the single version of ‘Get Healed’, another...
Cajsa Siik: Relentle...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The excellent new single from Stockholm based artist Cajsa Siik just released a few short days back on May 12th and the singer had a bit to say about some of the contrasting facets here in LA (vs those in Sweden) that helped...
EVVY: Haze
posted by Charles Stepczyk
EVVY is the newest independent artist from New York, produced by Mickey Valen (Noosa, AYER) whom recently teamed up with Chris Wallitsch forming the production duo ‘Mickey Valen & The King’. Upon teaming up...
Seaside: Giggle and ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Seaside is another recent discovery out of Jakarta Indonesia, on the new label Anoa Records – one of a few releases on their site. The indie pop band released their LP “Undone” on Dec 15 of this past year,...
Tuden: About a Hat
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Following on the international finds this past week in the realm of Twitter diving we bring you indie from India, a gem from the NW state of Nagaland to be specific. Tuden is the shortened moniker of Tuden Jamir, an indie...
Comett: Time for Dep...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
We recently spotted this newish track from French indie pop duo COMETT while diving headlong into the abyss of endless music postings on Twitter (via Twitter Search). This is among the handful of sparkling songs we fished...
Horror House: WVES (...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
We took another deep dive this week into the horrors of the tweet-swill (aka Twitter Search), looking for quality independent music, which we are happy to announce we found – albeit in very short supply. Horror House...
Barefood: Perfect Co...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Jakarta, Indonesia indie rock band BAREFOOD formed on late August 09 in the middle of the fasting month – an idea created by two high school friends, Rahmat Triyadi and Ditto Pradwito. They both wanted to play songs...